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S/O Baby Names
WWYD for a middle name? Go with an exact family name, go with a name with the same initial but not an exact name of a family member or go with a completely new/non-family name that you just like?
S/O Baby Names 34 votes
Exact family member name
41%
14 votes
Use the same initial but not exact name
2%
1 vote
Completely new name you just like
44%
15 votes
SS/Explain
11%
4 votes
Re: S/O Baby Names
It depends on the family name. If it's old timey, and doesn't fit with the modern feel of baby's chosen name. Make sense?
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I personally think it's weird to be so stuck on using a family name, that you're searching back through your family trees trying to find a name you like and have no personal knowledge or connection to that person just for the sake of using a family name. I also would not want to be pressured into using a family name by someone else.
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Our family tradition (on both my side and DHs side) is to chose a family name as a middle name. DS1's middle name is FIL first name (which I love and would use for a first name), and DS2's middle name will likely be Jamieson (a name a love, and a tribute to DH without being his exact first name).
I love using family names for middle names and if I don't love the exact name, using a variation but not just an initial. Ex, my middle name is Ann, my mothers middle name is Ann and my grandmothers middle name Antoinette. If I were to have a girl, I would probably go with Ana or something like that as a tribute with a twist because I'm not a huge fan of my middle name.
TTC#1 July 2010 PCOS dx April 2011 DS born: February 21, 2012
TTC#2 June 2013 MMC Sept 2013 (partial molar), CP 02/2014 DS2 born: December 5, 2014