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If 1st child has 2 middle names does 2nd child need to have the same?

32 replies

LarkinSky · 23/10/2012 11:47

Just that really: I insisted that DD had two middle names, overruling DH, because I had 2 myself.

One of the middle names is a lovely and meaningful family name (my mums and my middle name), the other is a hormone-influenced more random choice that we're slightly embarrassed about. (old, though not unusual, welsh name).

So dc2 is due any day, we have lovely first names lined up and one middle name per gender,but does our second child need to have 2 middle names because our first does? Could it cause sibling issues in future?

It wouldn't be too hard to pick a second middle name at this stage, although it could be yet another hormone-influenced choice of course!

Thanks!

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hanahsaunt · 23/10/2012 12:33

Our first three all have one middle name. Our fourth has two - she's the last and the only girl so we just used up all the names. The boys don't feel hard done by because they are all the same.

AlphaBeta82 · 23/10/2012 12:26

I'm in the same boat. DH insists next child (currently pregnant) has to have 2 middle names as DS does. If it is a girl I can cope with that, another boy and we've used all the middle names we like!!!

javotte · 23/10/2012 12:24

My parents didn't give me a middle name, but both my siblings have got one. I must say I am a little resentful, as if they couldn't be bothered to think of another name.

Felicitywascold · 23/10/2012 11:57

Absolutely not necessary, why would it be? FGS treat your children equally, don't treat them the same.

MolotovBomb · 23/10/2012 11:57

'says' not 'day's' flippin' iPhone...

MolotovBomb · 23/10/2012 11:55

I agree.

Also, it would drive me mad because there wouldn't be the sense of evenness, IYSWIM. But it's not absolutely necessary. it days more about my need to pair!

notMarlene · 23/10/2012 11:49

Yup, I'd say so. Friends of mine argued about this as children a lot the second DD had one NN and her sister insisted it was because she was less important Sad

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