DS1 was named after the first person in the family to come to Australia (in the First Fleet as a convict). His middle name is the same as my DH's middle name (which is the same as DH's grandfathers middle name).
DS2 was not intentionally named after family, it was just a name I liked but there are family members with it as a middle name. His middle name is the same as my FIL and BIL.
If we have another one, we will be naming him (or her) after my side of the family (but my sister has pretty much covered our side as her ex-DH didn't care about middle names).
We love French names here too. With Ds though DH got to pick, so second name had French spelling an funnily it goes so well the whole name sounds French.
It all started with me liking the way DH's name was spelt.
Turns out though DS's name is very biblical too. Not planned though.
We have a "proper names with proper spellings" theme. We all have three given names, and the middle names are for family. Stormy's middle names have been picked out for years. Before I even left school for one of them, if Stormy is a girl. The bumpling names are the creative ones and can be still used post-birth if we want, just not on the birth certificate.
I do have a "not the normal nickname" rule. Just because I don't want Liebling having to point out his name isn't spelt "Lee" all the time, that is a living nightmare that I know all too well.
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