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CoffeeNColor
Master August 2017

2 middle names for children? Is that weird?

CoffeeNColor, on July 28, 2016 at 8:33 AM Posted in Married Life 0 48

Several of my friends are having babies/just had babies so it got me thinking. I was thinking about my future children's names and I realized FH and I have a lot of family members whose legacies we will want to honor/names we want to keep going in our family. Is it weird to give our children 2 middle names so that we can honor multiple relatives?

Obviously it will be a while before we start having children, but the thought popped through my head.

Anybody on here have 2 middle names or give their children 2 middle names? Pros and cons in your experience?

48 Comments

Latest activity by Private User, on August 3, 2016 at 8:19 AM
  • F
    Master December 2015
    Fiona ·
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    I have two middle names. I go by one of them. It's not weird at all.

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  • Shropshire2Davis
    VIP June 2019
    Shropshire2Davis ·
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    No, I have an angel baby with two middles, and FH and I were thinking of using two middles in any of our future children's names if we get lucky enough to get pregnant...

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  • Private User
    VIP August 2014
    Private User ·
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    I had only 1 middle, but 4 total names, since my last name was my parents' two last names hyphenated. My sister used the whole hyphen and I used the 2nd name - my mother's after I turned 18.

    When you have to yell for them an extra middle helps. Like MARY LOU SUE, what did you do?

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  • Mrs.T_618
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    Mrs.T_618 ·
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    DH and his sisters all have two middle names. When there's not room in the middle name field, they just pick one (consistently). Fortunately, my maiden name (will be second middle name) isn't long so I hopefully I won't run into that too often.

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  • becomingburnett2017
    Devoted June 2017
    becomingburnett2017 ·
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    I have 4 siblings and 3/5 of us have two middle names. And two of my siblings with two middle names go by one of those middle names! Totally your decision!

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  • JessGCB
    Devoted September 2016
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    Not weird at all. A lot of parents that I know are doing this now. I don't have a middle name at all and I have noticed that confuses people a lot more than two middle names.

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  • E+T
    Super September 2017
    E+T ·
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    Nope! A girl I went to high school with had two and everyone always thought it was the coolest thing ever.

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  • OG Brittany
    Master December 2016
    OG Brittany ·
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    I had a friend growing up who had 2 middle names. I always remembered hers because her initials spelled out LEAF. lol

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  • Tina
    Devoted May 2017
    Tina ·
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    I didn't have a middle name growing up. So 2 sounds awesome to me.

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  • Sandyfish
    Super August 2017
    Sandyfish ·
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    I've heard of it. My MOH has 2 middle names picked out for her future kids.

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  • OGJessieJV
    Master July 1867
    OGJessieJV ·
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    Most of the kids I grew up with have two middle names. I'm almost 40 so it's not a new thing.

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  • Sylvia751
    VIP November 2016
    Sylvia751 ·
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    I've got two. It doesn't matter, it's not like anyone uses them.

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  • Simca
    Super April 2017
    Simca ·
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    I have 4 middle names lol. I'm known by one of them. I was the first girl and my parents couldn't decide so gave me a total of 5 names plus my surname!

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  • mimitrue
    Master January 2016
    mimitrue ·
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    Not weird at all. 2 I think is becoming a norm...if not more. In fact, I remember Uma Thurman giving her baby a huge name so I just looked it up and yep...it's huge:

    Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Busson

    Can you imagine when that child gets in trouble and they try to say her entire name for added effect?

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  • FFW
    Master August 2016
    FFW ·
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    My mom and all her sisters have 2 middle names. My youngest sister also has two middle names I dont think its weird.

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  • Kristy
    Master November 2015
    Kristy ·
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    Definitely not weird! My hubby has 2. A lot of people do, actually Smiley smile

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  • OG Ruth
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    OG Ruth ·
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    I don't think it's weird. I had two middle names. I dropped the second middle name (my grandmother's maiden name) when I changed my name. I wasn't close to my grandmother at all and felt no attachment to the name. Maybe if I was close to her, I would have kept it.

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  • E
    Devoted July 2016
    Erin ·
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    I have two middle names Smiley smile and I plan on keeping both when I change my last name

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  • OG Kathryn
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    I have two middle names, Caroline Anna.

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  • Beutivant
    Master May 2016
    Beutivant ·
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    Not weird. But my husband has two and hates it. He's says it always a pain with formal applications, forms, etc/he ends up just using one.

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