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Babies middle name - thoughts?
If we were to have a boy I really wanted to give it dh's middle name (Henry) dh nixed that idea but ok'd it for a middle name. Since we are now having a girl, dh is toying with it having my middle name for her own middle name, he thinks it goes well with some of our choices and thinks 'why not' since we were going to do it for a boy.
Does this seem weird/odd/cheesy? Typically I am all for children having their own name/identity yadda yadda yadda but I really just loved the name Henry so that is why I broke my own 'rule' if it were going to be a boy. Now I just don't know.
Re: Babies middle name - thoughts?
I've heard of that before, I don't think it's weird/odd or cheesy
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I love the idea of using the same middle name! My BFF just had a baby last month and her daughter's middle name is Louise, same as hers (after her grandmother).
ETA: I love the name Henry!! Just fill out the birth certificate when your H isn't looking
(My grandma actually did this with my aunt, but it backfired because my grandpa still told everyone to call her by her middle name, which is the name he liked)
My goal when I was young was to be able to name my future child my middle name, but we all know that to do that now would be border line child abuse in my case
My dad gave my brother his first name as his middle name and I got my aunt/grandmother's name as my middle name. I don't think it is weird or odd or cheesy. I really wanted to name our future son Matthew Nicholas, but Nick is nixing that because he says then the kid would have 2 first names
I really really want to name our future girl Grace Anne after both of our mother's middle names, but he thinks Grace sounds like an 80 year old woman. Le sigh.
Oh and FWIW my sister named her daughter after my mom's first name and her husband's grandmother... so I guess it isn't weird for my family
I have heard of that and I am a fan of using family names. I would never use my name just because I don't like it.
Pookums is nms as a middle name, but hey, it's your kid
LMAO thanks ladies. My middle name is Rene' I think we would spell it different since my mother messed up and gave me the male french spelling. LOL
*Aleesh* I loooooove the name Grace. I also use to love the name Hanna, but I am not so inclined to use it anymore.
Soo we def. do that in our family. My grandmother is Audrey Anne, Her daughters first names were Marianne, Joanne, and Diana. At least the oldest girl in each family has Anne as a middler name. We also have an Anna.
I don't think it is weird, especially since it is just a middle name. we plan to use a family name as a middle name for our children (boys will have grandfathers FN as middle name(DH's family tradition) and girls will have some other family name as middle name)
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I don't know why I felt that me being the mother made it weird but it did. We def do use family names and I have for sure pushed Anna for a middle name (since that was the name of my grandmother - who raised me).
I don't think it's weird at all.
If/when I have a baby boy I want his middle name to just be an intial which would be "E"; the reason being is my H's middle name is Edward same as FIL, my dads middle name in Edwin which is the same as his dad so I think by just using the "E" it would cover all of them. My H thinks I am crazy and doesn't like that idea but I think its only because he and his dad don't have a very good relationship.
Well in Jewish tradition children should be named after passed relatives, which is how I got my first and middle name.
So if we have a girl, her middle name will be my old middle name and hopefully her first name will be after my great grandmother on my mom's grandmother's side.
I would go with it.
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I don't think it's weird. My friend gave her daughter her middle name. And my mom knew someone in college who's parents had made the girl a JR after her mother. They called her "ditto" ...that nickname is a bit off, but to each their own.
Anyways, if you like your middle name, and you're ok with passing it on I say go for it.
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My family will use a last name for a middle name. My father has one of his grandmothers' maiden name (Dimock), my cousin has our grandfather's last name (Cash), my niece has our grandmother's maiden name (Taylor).
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I don't think it's weird at all. And, when you're giving it as a middle name, they still have their own identity. When we have a baby, if we have a boy, his middle name will be Eugene. Scott, his dad, and his grampa all have the middle name Eugene and I think it's kind of neat (I probably would have chosen a different name, but whatever). If we have a girl, her middle name will be Maureen. My cousin's, mom's, and gradma's middle names are all Maureen.
Aleesh, what's your middle name?
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