Middle names , what made you decide on the name you did for your kids ?
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Middle names , what made you decide on the name you did for your kids ?
DS middle name is a bit of a family tradition- df and fil both have the same middle name
What sounded the best with first name and avoiding any family members names
We chose family names for our DD's middle names. DD1s middle name was always going to be my middle name. It's also my Mums, Nanas and great grandmas. For DD2 we wanted something from DHs side of the family so chose his Mums first name.
For DD we made a name using the first part of my NANs first name and the second part of DH Nan's first name .. We actually like the name as well :) hope DD still likes it when she is older ..
We just went with names that we liked. My sister had mentioned flow, as in syllables, so with DS1, his names go 2, 1, 2 (Toby James Surname), then with DS2, we went 2, 3, 2 (Hamish Benjamin Surname) and with DD we went 4, 1, 2. (Olivia Grace Surname). She really got me stuck on this concept and I kept saying to DH, nooo, it's got to be short in the middle for DD... :)
We used their great grandfather's name for both boys.
Ds1 has the name of my favourite singer, which happens to be a family name too.
DD1 has the same middle name as me & my mum, which was also my mothers grandmothers middle name.
DS2 has a family name which is shared between my brother, dad & pop.
DD2 has my MIL's name as her middle name. Mil passed away in 2002.
DD3 has my mothers nickname as her middle name. My mum has been called this by her aunts & siblings her whole life.
I'm not particularly a fan of any of my kids middle names, but they were family names and went well with the first names we'd chosen :)
DS - Having a J middle name is apparently a family tradition on DH's side, so we brainstormed for ages before we found one we both like. It also happens to be my cousin's name, but that didn't affect the decision :)
DD's first middle name - My mum and I have our mum's names as middle names, so I always planned to give my daughter my name as her middle.
DD's second middle name - Although I'd planned on honouring my nan anyway, when she died while I was pregnant it solidified my decision.
I dont really like DS middle name either but it works.:
Family names. DS1's is a nod to my mum's family. DS2's is a nod to my dad's side of the family - in both cases DH liked the names as they are/were footy players from his beloved footy team. I let him think that's the origin of their second names ;) DS3 has DH's name as his second name.
Dd's middle name is actually the name of the band I was listening to while in labour! If we have a son the middle name will be dh's first name.
DD has my great-grandmothers name as her middle name.
This bub will either have FILs name as his middle name (matches well with first name) or my middle name as middle name if its a girl (again, matches well - we are all about the number if syllables here too so it flows!).
I have friends who picked family names and gosh they just do not flow whatsoever (in fact I think they are terrible) but each to their own, everyone has their own reason for picking names!!
We just went with names that felt right with each one. However, when I was pregnant with DD3, we realised that the other two's first middle name started with the same letter, so we gave DD3 an a name as well.
To me it has to have a family connection.
DD1 is Joan, that is my Nana's name, DH Great Grandmothers name and his sisters middle name so made both sides of the family happy. DD1 hates it though and if we say it she tells us she does not want to be Joan anymore. Her choice to change it when she is old enough if she wants but I am sure she when she understands why she has it she will love it.
DD2 is Lee, that is also my middle name and my only uncles name (but spelt different) who passed away 6 years ago. It just happened to sound fantastic with her first name too.
This baby we don't know the gender but we know that if it is a girl the middle name will be Marie (Goes nicely with first name we have picked) after DH's grandmother who passed away late last year while he was overseas. If it is a boy the middle name will be Mark or Anthony after my fathers first and middle names, just depends on what first name we go with.
I find middle names the easiest part of choosing a name for a baby.
We chose grandparents names, DD11 has my middle name which is my mum's name.
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Both of my kids middle names are names I really loved but didn't use as a first name due to different reasons..
DS1 - The sound of it is too similar to surname so it fits nicely in the middle.
DS2 - I love the name but didn't want it shortened for my kid like a lot of people do so when it's in the middle it's the full name no short versions.
We went with meanings. So B lake V incent A talik means 'dark' and 'conquering' 'like his father'. Was tough thinking up three names with good meanings for each child though. If I had of known I would have five boys I would have stuck with two :)
DS (Thor Stefan) is named for his great grandfather (Thor) and his grandfather (Stefan). We wanted Icelandic names (DP's heritage) which are pronounceable and spellable in English, and Icelandic custom is to re-use family names as well.
We used family names for DS and DD1, DD2 has DH's middle name. I also gave them my maiden name as a middle name.
DS - named after DH's favourite basketball player
DD1 - she has two - first one is a name that both of us liked during my pregnancy, and then the other one is my middle name
DD2 - has two as well - first one is my mum's first name, second one is MIL's middle name
DD3 - has two (sensing a pattern?) - first one is DH's grandmother's first name, second one is my grandmother's first name
:)
For DS, his is the same as DF's. Little bit of tradition, all boys on DF's fathers side have the same middle name (inc brothers).
But if this next baby is a boy, we will be breaking that tradition. I feel (and DF agrees) my family is just as important to represent, so if we have another boy he will get a name from my side. Likely my late Pa's name. They will already share sirnames so they dont need to share a middle name too imo. Both middlenames will be just as important to us as the other. Not sure how MIL & FIL will react lol, but I honestly dont care as I will just throw at them "are you honestly so arrogant to think that YOUR family is more important than mine?" Well maybe not so harshly lol, but the last bit definitely.
Family tradition :)
We chose family names for middle names too.
DS has a name from DH's family so DD's name comes from my family.
We chose names with special meanings. DD1s middle name means "a gift" which, after our journey to have, was very fitting. DD2s middle name is the name of the street where my ILs bought their first house. We wanted to include them but couldn't use their names, so that was a special way to do it.
Family names here.
DS1's middle name comes from my side of the family, DS2's from DH's side.
Family names also...
Cooper JAMES - my brother, dad, grandad, FIL and BIL
Daylen BENJAMIN - DHs name
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Ours was about flow. Both DD's have a 2 syllable 1st name, a 1 syllable middle name and a hyphenated surname :)
Names that went with the first name that we had chosen but also had some meaning
Dd1 is the female version of dp's fathers name
Dd2 was chosen by dd1 but was also our OBs name
Names that went with the first name that we had chosen but also had some meaning
Dd1 is the female version of dp's fathers name
Dd2 was chosen by dd1 but was also our OBs name
Purely on the intial we wanted started with that and went from there. As middle name is so rarely used wasnt that fussed with name just had to have right intial. DD we wanted CJ - so that dictated first and middle we found the C but for the J couldn't come up with anything so like in the Simpsons apparently we went with Jay for the J. DS once had first name I wanted initials SAM (have always had a thing about intials being names) - so looked for A names that went ok and picked my Grandad name Arthur. If DD first didn't suit her so well I might have regrets because no one here knows how to say it and I had not appreciated that fact - but matters less with middle names.
My grandmas name :) we had it picked first.
My girls' middle names are both for family family.
Paige is my granmother's maiden name (Page). She died 5 days after I was born and she never met me.
Diamond is my mother's maiden name. I wanted to use one of her names, but since she didn't really like either of her names herself, it seemed strange to pass them on to my daughter! So we used her maiden name instead, although I think most people seem to think it is all a bit Hollywood.
My DD has my middle name which is also my Nan's first name and my DH has an aunt with that name too. All worked out well.
For DD, we wanted something to beautiful & precious. Her middle name is Jewel.
For DS, we wanted to use DP's late brother's name, but with different spelling. His middle name is Rhys.
I actually wanted DD's middle name to be Rhys, as I just love it in a unisex way, but DP insisted we save it for a boy if we had one.
This time, if its another DD, her middle name will be a particular fruit, and if its another DS, we're thinking of using a family nickname. Nothing is set in stone though.
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DS1 we used Walter as all the first born males on my side had that as their middle name for at least 4 generations before (so at least 5 generations now); DS2 we used used DH's dad's name (Colin) as they had a tradition of using the father's first name as the middle name of the first male but DH's parents broke that tradition and DH didn't want his name to be the middle name so we went back to his dad's.
in a morphine induced hallucination! :rofl: seriously. A lady put her hand on my shoulder and said "what about Timothy? " I told DP later.. when I could speak that I think I saw his mum and she wanted DS to have her brothers name as a middle name. We were going to name our baby after her if it was a girl so I thought it was fitting.
Maybe it wasn't a hallucination. ... but a visit from beyond! My MIL has been dead for 18 years... I never met her. or did I? ;)
Dd1 has my middle name. Dd2 has my grandmothers middle name. If we had had a boy teu would have had the same middle name as my dad and brother.