Will you be giving baby a middle name and why?

[EmyDra]

Everyone in my family has a middle name, my brother has two.

For me personally it's a sense of identity - I'm not just 'Emma' which is such a common name, I'm Emma Kate. I love it when my Grandma calls me Emma Kate

My LO will be Elsie Blanche or Silas Ray, but I'm still not sure about the boys name, since I want to have my brothers name (Alexander) in there somewhere too.

 

[jackiea85]

I will, we gave our son a middle name (his grandpa's name) and I will give the next one too. I don't have a middle name, my hubby has 2 x

 

[Reds05]

Definitely giving bubs a middle name. DS has one (its DH's first name).

As we are having the baby baptized and the first name is not a saints name then the middle name will be one.

 

[rainysunshine]

We will be giving all our children middle names. Everyone in my family has one, and my OH's family calls him by his. Two of my brothers have two middle names, and my mom also goes by her middle name. I think it is a great completion to a name, and a great way to honor family names that you might not like enough to have as a first name. We have picked out a couple names - Dimitri Roman for a boy and Kellen Riley for a girl.

 

[Lucky.M]

Yes because I didn't name my first, and my daughter constantly moans about me not giving her a middle name! So I learnt my lesson x

 

[Terangela]

Everyone on both sides of the family has two names. I have have never known anyone with out a middle name. To me it distinguishes you more between others, especially when using a common name as a first name.

I used to know a Chris Smith. He gets lots of calls from creditors and they are always looking for another Chris. His middle name is John. Talk about an all around common name guy.

 

[sarah1989]

Yes because, I never really knew differently. My sister and I have 2 middle names, my DH has 2 middle names. Almost everyone I know has a middle name, so I plan on following that tradition with at least one middle name if not two for our children

It is a personal preference and everyone is different

 

[applelova911]

I voted no, We didn't give my son a middle name but that was OH's decision and being that I came up with his first name well I settled for the no middle name.

 

[BradysMum]

Yes, so that DH could honor his Samoan heritage too. It was more to please his parents than anything

 

[disneyfan1984]

We will be giving our little one a middle name for a few reasons, but the main one is to honour my grandmother, who passed away from cancer last year. She wouldn't have liked us to give her name as a first name, but she would have been honoured for us to use it as a middle.

So, this baby will either be Alayna June or Katelynn June.

 

[Surprise]

Yes for several reasons. One, it sounds complete to me. Two, I have given all of my children significant middle names that are part of their "persona", as is mine. (I actually have a double name, meaning I'm called by my first and middle). Third, this next baby's middle name will be the 4th in a row (grandmother, dad, me and my brother, and now the new little guy).

My first son is named after his two grandfathers, so both of his names are significant. My second son's middle name is my maiden name, which is important to me, and I like to call him by both his names! It's cute.

All of our middle names get a good bit of use - maybe it's because we're southern? Especially me and my double name, lol.