Would you give your child your first name as a middle name?

My husband has his dad's name as a middle name, so we're planning to use husband's name as our son's middle name to carry on the tradition.
Plus we like how it sounds and it saves us from choosing one side of the family over the other eg for a grandparent name.

My middle name is my mums name and my brother has my dads name. I think my mums name/my middle name works well as a middle name and I hope to use as a middle name if I have a daughter.

I think it really depends on the name. I don't see my first name fitting as a middle name with any girl first names that I know I like. Whereas my mums name is one of those names that work well with most names as a middle name.

I almost did with one DD but changed my mind at the last minute. The name she ended up with was also a 'family name', and I used family names for all the other DCs too.

I'm pregnant now and thinking of doing this. I'm surprised to find people so many people don't like this though I think I'd secretly been worried people would think it was arrogant !

My mum's name is my middle name and she has her mum's name as a middle name. I always loved that tradition and as I kid I said I'd pass on my name to a daughter. I love my first name and it is a popular name to have in double barrel first names so I think it sounds natural with all of the girls names we like (it doesn't begin with C by the way, that's just my username!).

Because we will be double barrelling our second name, it would mean if we have a girl her name will be: First Name - My First Name - My Last Name - Husband's Last Name and I thought it might sound strange to have both my first name and second name inside her name but then there are so many traditions around handing on men's names, I also think women should get a bit more a look in!

I did, yes.

I think it’s nice to keep family names going.

I know I’m a few years late lol - but came across this just. I gave my first born daughter my first name as a middle name.
It flows well, but most importantly I was named after my great grandad (female version Obvs), so I passed my name, and that of my great grandfathers onto my daughter which feels super special to have a ‘family name’ but also share a name with my first born x

ps- I am a social worker so I really have to cover my identity, even on sites like this. So I go by my middle name, incase your wondering what the male diminutive of Marlene is 🤣

Interesting thread. Some members of the family have used all family names for their children. So for example one child has great grandfathers name/grandfathers name/ family name/surname. Christopher is the popular choice for our family as a first name. There are about ten in the immediate family alone and it drives me mad. I think why not have that as a middle name and think of another name for your son. We have gone the polar opposite. Brand new names for each child. Mostly non-biblical. No family names used at all. I go out of my way to make sure that the names we pick have not been used by anyone else in the family and it works for us.

I don't get it either, it's even weirder when they are named after their parents. My uncle is named after my grandad and when someone goes "Andrew" they both turn around ALL THE TIME!

My middle name is the same as my dads but his middle name, not his name. That's weird too lol, but I like it.

Sorry, I meant MY grandmothers - so DD's great-grandmothers. Both classic names I loved anyway.

My name is a little odd, I have the same first name as my mum, but my parents have never used it and call me by my middle name. Apparently it's because my grandmother wanted to call my mum Diane Laura* but called her Diane Marie instead so my mum called me Diane Laura. Also, my name flows better how it is, it would have been clunky had my two names been reversed. Not to mention, there's a strong family tradition of people using their middle names in my family, my granddad, uncle, aunt and cousin all use their middle names.

*Not the actual names.

dd1's middle name is the same as two of my aunties,
ds's middle name is the same as his paternal granddad and my maternal granddad,
dd2's first name is the same as my cousin (her dad chose her name)
dd3's first name is the same as my sister and her dad's sister's middle name and her middle name is after my paternal grandmother.

Its traditional isn't it in some families?

Not arrogant or boring or unimaginative.

Judgemental much?!

No, because I don't like my name enough to call my child it. No problems with it on principle though.

My DD are both named after their grandmothers, one as first name and one as middle name.

To me, I can't see the point of a mn if it's not to honour a family member. That's what a mn is, that's it's purpose, and if you can't stand your family, baby gets your first name .

Very happy that this is not necessarily what a mn is to everyone. That's just my take.

I wouldn't give a rat my first name as a MN, let alone my own child. It's awful. I've never forgive my parents for calling me it. You can't shorten it or anything. Its Clare.

It's tradition on my dads side that the name John is passed down from father to son . Sometimes as a first name and sometimes as a middle name. I would happily have given any future ds John as a middle name but with my new surname of Johnson it wont really work!

I don't find it weird at all. I would be proud to have my mums name as a middle name. It's just another little connection between us so don't worry about it :) x

I wouldn't give my child my middle name, or in fact any other relative or friends middle name - just as my parents didn't give me 'someone else's name'.

I think children who have raletive names as middle names are unfortunate becuase the relatives names always seem old and fusty, if not when you are naming the child, they will be when they are older. I personally think it is unfair and selfish to inflict a horrible name on your child just becuase great granny Doreen, etc, etc was a beloved member of the family.

Just as my parents did with me, i would choose another nice, normal and common at the time name, so if they ever didn't like their first name, they could use their middle name as an alternative.

My sons name is boring, he has: his grandads first name as his first name
Dads middle name is his first name
My brothers first name is his middle name and my brothers middle name is ds first name.
Ds middle name was also my grandads first name!
It made a lot of people cry happy tears when we named him!!!
However we've only met one other child with the same first name. So I think we pull it off.

My FiL gave his name as a middle name to BOTH of his sons

I wouldn't... I have my aunt's name (but spelt differently) so it's already been reused

Mu husband has the same first name as his father, and when our youngest son was born my mother in law wanted him to be given this name too. Suffice to say she didn't get her way.
He does, however, sort of have the same name as me. My name is usually shortened to a one syllable name which also has a masculine version and when our youngest was born we tried and tried for ages to come up with a name for him but the only one that suited him was the male version of mine (in the shortened state) and we did actually hold off registering him in the hope that we'd have a light bulb moment and find something else.
He wasn't intentionally named after me, and I always explain to people that it was all that suited him. It does get confusing when someone shouts the name and we both answer but I honestly can't imagine him being called anything else, it suits him perfectly.

DS first name is his fathers middle name - we didn't know that it's also his great grandfathers name - it was the only name we agreed on and very close to the name I wanted

On doing a family tree we discovered generations of his name in the tree

This is a tradition in my dad's family, but only for boys. So my dad has his dad's name as a middle name and my brother has my dad's. My brother broke with tradition and didn't give his son his name as a middle name. However, I gave my ds my dad's middle name as a first name, mostly because I happened to like the name, but the family connection is nice too.

I don't like my name so I wouldn't give it to a DD but I don't see anything wrong with it in principle. However I was quite keen on giving DS DH's name as a middle name because it's also my brother's name, so it made sense to me, but DH said it would make him feel 'weird'.

Yeh, I've just done this. Well, gave her the middle name Kate (I'm Katherine known as Kat)