What are your reasons for choosing a middle name?

[SugarDust]

We simple chose middle names as the majority of our families have them!

Jason has Peter after my grandfather whom I was close to but passed when I was younger.

Marcus has Allen which is my DFs middle name but also a combo of Jason's great grand father and great great grand father albert and len.

Bump if a girl (doctors can be wrong) will have Grace after DFs nana but if a boy will have Ashley as we both like it!

[Nai]

DD's has 2 middle names - her first middle name is Claudia after DP's father Barry Claude and his grandfather Claude who are no longer with us (and we really couldn't inflict Claude onto a boy so Claudia was a nice option). Her second is my surname.

This time if we have a boy trhe middle name will be David or John after my father plus my surname. I'm not sure what we will do if we have a girl.

I never thought about why but because DP and I both have middle names we just automatically slected middle names for out children. A PP made a good point though - with so many people in the world it is likely that someone else will have the same first name and surname combination but it is less likely that they will have the same middle name as well so it does make them more identifiable.

[saslia]

DD's middle name is my last name (Prue - so still a "girls" name) and DS's middle name is DH's name Stewart (family tradition)

[AnyDream]

I wanted to give both my DD's meaning-full names.

DD1's middle name is Sophia - I really hope she grows in Wisdom.
DD2's middle name is Hope. She was born on a 9/11 anniversary so the name holds all our hope and longing for a more tolerant and harmonious world.

[~Kaz~]

Thanks so much for all your replies girls. I really appreciate it. It's made me look at middle names a bit differently.

Looks like there could be more choices to make now!!

Cheers.