why did you choose dcs middle names?

Heh, pm me if you really want to know, RueLaChesty. I don't want to put it on the thread as it makes me fairly identifiable.

DD1 has my late grandmothers middle name. I was really close to her so it feels right that we have continued her name.
DD2 is named after my DH late grandmother he was really close to.
It feels fair that we have a name from each side for each girl.
For baby number 3????? We have used all the pretty family girl names so we have to decide on a suitable MN.
We have agreed if it's a boy his MN would be after my dad who died 14 years ago.

DS1 has two middle names. The first is DP's late father's name and the second is a Scottish family middle name that is the same as my DF's and my DB's.
DS2 has my dad's name for his middle name. It doesn't actually 'go' that well with his first name, but my DF died 9 months to the day before DS2 was born, so there you go.

As her middle name we are giving DD the name of my cousin who died a few years ago aged just seven

I am sure my uncle and aunt will find us doing so bittersweet. I'm intending to ask them if it's okay as opposed to announcing her name to them.

When my half-sister was born my Dad insisted that she have the same mn as me and my Step-sister so we all had the same. When my DD was born I felt that I had to carry it on which is a bit odd because it's just a random ( common for the time ) name and doesn't actually mean anything to the family otherwise. IYSWIM?

Family names
DS is ABC Surname

A= Name we liked. FIL was researching family tree when I was pg and discovered 5 generations of this name in the family, the last one died about 70 years ago. As -I- we liked it anyway, it was a no brainer.

B = My uncle who was having treatment for prostate cancer whilst I was pg. His side effects were a lot like my MS-hyperemisis and he joked with me about "hormones eh!" even though his prognosis was very poor.

C = FIL. My idea. He has always been lovely to me.

DD has her name, followed by my grandmas name (Catherine), followed by MIL's name (Ann)

DS has his name, middle name (George), followed by my maiden name

TBH I wouldnt have chosen three names each, but DH and exP had given three names to DSS (withe the last name being her maiden name) so we felt we had to continue the tradition for fairness

Oh- obv I gave her my Gran's name, as 2nd mn.

My DD ended up with 2 because my Gran passed away unexpectedly when I was 41wks pg, she always wanted another girl in the family. I was distraught & still am. Her other mn is from a song by a band that are important to my DH & I. I have no mn's :o

Dd's middle name was my Mum's name. Her due date was the seventh anniversary of my Mum's death, but she was two weeks early - I was strangely sad about that. If we have a ds, he will have FIL's name as it's a family name on that side. If we have a dd2 I don't know; no obvious family contender so we might just pick something we like.

We like to use family names or other names with meaning to us.

DS1's first MN is DH's and DH's dad's name, his second MN is my dad's name.

DD1's first MN was the first name in my double-barrelled maiden name (it's a name that is also a widely used first name), her second mn is my twin sister's name.

DD2's first name is DH's mum's name, her second MN is my mum's middle name.

I just have one daughter and gave her for her middle name the name of my paternal grandmother who died a few years before she was born. It's Lily, which was also good because I gave her a more unusual first name and was aware that Lily is kind of the Emma or Jane of DD's time so she will be able to use it as a more ordinary name should she later decide that she doesn't like her first name. My other grandmother was called Barbara and I didn't really like the name so didn't use it. If we are lucky enough to have another daughter we will use one of DH's grandmothers' names as a middle name (they were Violet and Doris so I'm pretty sure which one we would pick!)

I also wanted to give DD a flower name as me and my sister both have flower middle names so it worked out well. And Violet would fit with that, too.

If I had a boy, I would quite like to give him my brother's name as a middle name. It's very unusual and a family name (have rarely met anyone from outside my family who is called it).

What a great thread - and I'm glad I don't live in Oman, I have enough problems remembering names as it is, just imagine having to teach the dc to write their name!

I love MNs that mean something so we did try:

dd - has a Manx name as DH is Manx, wanted to use it as her first name but didn't want her to face a whole life of "you what?"

ds1 - Named after my Grandad (using his surname as ds first name, which also happens to be a place in the Isle of Man) - my grandad died years ago, my Gran cried when I told her ds name.

ds2 - DD and DS1 chose to name him after Peppa pig's DB, luckily was also a family name from both sides. This could have been much worse - their favourite cartoon is now Scooby doo, not sure I could have passed off Shaggy as a family name!

Dd1 has both my mum & MIL's names. Dd2 we struggled enough to pick a first name that we just picked on of the names on our list that we liked but not for her first name.

DS1's middle name is DP's dads first name - he died when DP was 14 and he always wanted to use it, I wasn't keen on using it for the first name, so it became the middle name

DS2's middle name is DP's brothers first name - used as subtle bribery so that I could convince him to use the first name I really wanted

My children have three names. Their forenames were chosen jointly by my DH and me. Then I chose one and he chose one. Obviously we both had the power of veto if the other had gone completely potty but it wasn't needed.

DD has a family name, someone very special to DP who'd not long died. 'tis a boys name. We didn't plan to use a family name, just a name we liked, but it was important to DP.

DS is named for a dear family friend who'll never have children of his own. My parents did this for DB and I liked the idea, there were no family names I'd have wanted to use and it didn't seem right to name DD for someone and not DS.

DS1 has the same middle name as his dad.
DS2's middle name was my first choice as first name but DH was worried it would be mispronounced frequently.
DD's middle name (as well as her first name) both mean "love" in Welsh, and after a very rocky pregnancy with several times when we didn't think she'd make it it seemed apt.

My DD has my sister's name as her middle name, and my DS has my Dad's name. Both my sister and Dad got very emotional when we told them!
Hopefully DC3 will have my maiden name as a middle name, as it will not get passed on further otherwise.

DD has my first name (Katherine) as middle name and DS has the same middle name as his Dad, Grandad and Great Grandad. DC 3 (due in May) will have my sister's name(Jennifer) as middle name.

My son's middle name is Neo, after the guy from the Matrix who saved the world.

I'd named him before the crappy second and third films came out.

I like it, goes well with his first name and isn't likely to be a name that's used by many people.

DD1 - a beautiful name that I love, and that sounds beautiful with her first name.

DD2 - a name that is a private nod to my dad, who died when I was pregnant. I love it.

DS - family names including a Mumsnet no-no of a surname.

DD - a family name and the other name that we wanted to use as a first name

Our children's names are a combination of family names (DD has 2, DS 1) and my 2 favourite authors. No idea where DS's forename came from- DH plucked that one from the air at random