Using Mothers Last Name as Babys Middle Name
Mothers maiden name as middle proper name?
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What exercise you all think about using the maiden name as a middle name for baby? Im swell to do this for my son and wanted to know others thoughts. My surname sounds like a surname and non like a first proper noun. I dont desire to double butt his actual surname and wondered if this would be a realistic alternative or is information technology just silly? Do many people do this? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
My MIL suggested it to mine, only my surname simply doesn't lend itself to being a forename, then nosotros gave our second kid my surname instead, and had one child with our surname each rather than double barrelling or having non-working second names (which would never get used anyhow)
Very mutual in Scotland and Northern Ireland. I have my mum's maiden name as a middle proper name and my children practice too.
I have information technology as ane of mine. Unfortunately for me it's a boys name also and I don't utilise it anymore. If it was a neutral proper name I'd like information technology.
Does having a surname equally middle name acquired any teasing/questions at school? Practise you similar having a surname as a centre name? I gauge not if you used that for your children too? Many thanks
Non sure why it would be dizzy? It'southward actually normal.
We did it and when I put my listen to it I think at least l% of the babies I know born over the terminal ten years or and so have this aforementioned set up up, both boys and girls. We did Forename Forename Mysurname DHsurname.
My eldest DD has my surname every bit a centre name. Scottish/ traditional just information technology is a name that can exist used as a first name male child/ daughter or surname. Not sure why anyone would go teased for information technology unless it became double barrelled and started sounding pretentious.
Thank yous, I just dont know anyone who actually has. Glad to hear that its 50% of babies who take this now. Id similar to keep my family name in at that place somehow.
Simply l% of the babies I tin can recollect of and that's a relatively pocket-sized sample of all babies born! 
Simply I definitely don't think it'south uncommon.
My dh has his mum'southward maiden proper noun as his middle name, it's also a regular first proper name. Nosotros considered doing the same for our dd, wish nosotros had.
We did merely it can be used as an normal proper noun but it is very American. OP is knowing her proper name is helpful and so for you the PM me.
It's the norm in my circle - generally professional person women who have kept their own name on marriage. Baby has Dad's surname and Mum's surname equally a center name.
We have achieved something similar in the opposite way and given DD a double barrelled surname with both of our names, unhyphenated. If she wants to move one of them to be a second centre name and only get past the other in the future and then she can.
My grans first name is Mary but she gets chosen May; my heart name is May afterward her and I volition exist naming dd1(due April 15th) with May as her middle name also every bit she will take her dad'south final proper name and so I wanted her to have a piece of me. Every bit my partner and I are non married, we have discussed him adding May on to his proper noun as a middle name if we go married. For me it would be difficult to alter my name as I take three residential visas and 2 passports for different countries meaning a name modify could look dodgy. However he does non desire to modify his concluding proper noun every bit it has a lot of history from his dad'south side due to slavery etc whereas my last name is from my dad who I speak to once or twice a year on the telephone and saw a handful of times throughout my babyhood.
Thank you all, im loving the replies.
Is there anyone who thinks its a bad idea? if so, why?
My DS has my surname equally a 2d middle name. I didn't want to double barrel his surname and information technology works well as a proper noun in itself iyswim. I am the last in my family with an unusual surname - I didn't like the idea of information technology but disappearing forever after me, only too wanted to requite DS his father'due south surname for various reasons. I'thousand happy with his proper noun many years later, and he likes information technology as well. I say go for it!
I would admittedly be giving our son my surname every bit a middle name when he arrives, simply it just sounds awful when said aloud with DP's surname. Both begin with the aforementioned alphabetic character and sound like a joke proper name together. We've opted for my grandad'southward proper name every bit centre name instead so that there is still a link to my side of the family.
greendale17 Wed 07-Feb-18 10:05:41
I know quite a few people that practice it - I'm in NI. Most of the ones I know are first namey anyway if you lot know what I mean - Spencer, Murray, Reid etc. I've 3 kids - they never mention their friends middle names - teasing or otherwise. They couldn't tell you well-nigh of their friends heart names. I know their own middle names are only ever used at the Doctors when the initial comes upwardly on the electronic board. My youngest asked me what my and her dads middle name was a few months agone - they are very rarely used on a day to day basis.
Both my DC have a Scottish surname equally their heart proper noun, family unit tradition on their Dad'due south side, their cousins have information technology too, they are older teens and have never been teased about it.
Merely no way would I take given them my maiden surname as it's a girls name and I found it a pain growing up and it was obviously worse for my brother.
You could use your surname as your DC surname, why do you desire to use it for a middle name?
My married man has his female parent's maiden name as one of his middle names. I accept my maiden name equally my eye name (didn't have a middle proper name before getting married) and my children have my maiden name every bit ane of their middle names too. It means they have long names in their passports just in reality merely apply first and last name at school and out and about. Simply they're v enlightened they take my maiden name equally part of their name too and seem to like it.
I call back it really depends on the proper name, my dm's maiden name is Dick and then im fairly sure I wouldnt exist greatful for that
I think it can be very cool, depending on the bodily names involved. One of my schoolfriends had Jones as a heart name and it really worked well with her other names - very stylish.
I would take loved to do the aforementioned for my kids, but unfortunately my maiden name is an bodily boy'southward name (and a really sad and uncool one at that).
My maiden proper name was Williams then nosotros used William equally a eye name
I use my own surname. Both our xx something DCs have it as a middle name. So they have the 'Forename Forename MySurname HisSurname' combo mentioned upthread.
At DS'south Graduation, the whole darn lot was read out, which frankly was a bit of a mouthful. As a consequence, DD insisted on being announced as plain 'Forename Surname' at hers. That's our example of the potential embarrassment of lots of names OP.
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