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Keith?

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WillowTree2 · 23/06/2016 16:05

My dad is a Keith, urgh! We are due a DS, who we are naming William. It's tradition to give grandparents' names in the middle, so he'll be William Michael Keith... Is the Keith just awful??

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BrexitentialCrisis · 23/06/2016 23:43

Oh for heavens sake it's not that bad! And there are sentimental, family reasons for it- id say go with it OP, traditions are more important than name fads.

MrsBungle · 23/06/2016 23:39

Aaah I quite like Keith! Totally fine as a middle name after your dad.

SpecialSnowflake · 23/06/2016 23:37

Hippp yes, I'm aware of that, our Keith was still a Kit however.

hippp · 23/06/2016 23:00

Special Kit is short for Christopher

GinnyMcginface · 23/06/2016 22:58

Middle names are surely there for the purposes of piss taking and hilarity?! Go for it!

SpecialSnowflake · 23/06/2016 22:57

I had a great-uncle Keith who was known as Kit - could you use Kit instead?

LadyStarkOfWinterfell · 23/06/2016 22:49

Can you imagine telling your middle aged dad Keith that you called your child Kai in honour of him? Grin

LadyStarkOfWinterfell · 23/06/2016 22:47

Lol my brother is William Keith for this exact reason. Actually my other grandad was Bill, parents loved William but as it was (coincidentally) grandad's name they felt they had to put Keith in the middle. He doesn't really care if it helps.

Pemba · 23/06/2016 22:05

You could be right about that, Swearwolf. When my DD (23) was born I considered Evelyn for her middle name, after my grandmother. But then I thought 'No I can't it's just too old-ladyish.'

And now look! Gazillions of little girls called Evelyn running around. She could have been ahead of the curve.

Swearwolf · 23/06/2016 18:51

It's only a middle name! I actually think that generation of names is the next to come back into fashion, so when your ds is 18 he will be proud of his super cool middle name. My ds has Geoffrey as his middle name after his great grandad, and i love it!

figginz · 23/06/2016 17:57

I like Keith. I named my first car Keith. Smile

DontDeadOpenInside · 23/06/2016 17:55

seekingmiracles but the Flash is called Barry Allen Wink

Snapnap · 23/06/2016 17:55

I know two 30-something Keiths, both great and fun people, so seems like a fine name to me!

However, if you're really not keen on it but want it as an honorific, what about Kiefer or something similar?

Purplebluebird · 23/06/2016 17:54

Take a similar name instead. Like Kenneth.

TheNaze73 · 23/06/2016 17:36

Keith is up there with Neil as bad boy names go

Reindeerlily · 23/06/2016 17:34

Does your dad have a middle name that's a bit better than Keith?

Seekingmiracles · 23/06/2016 17:26

Awful! My dad is an Alan and DHs is Barry - no way on gods earth any son of ours is having either name!

Floralnomad · 23/06/2016 17:23

My late father was called Keith and it's my sons middle name , I actually don't mind it at all but that's because I associate with my lovely dad - it's certainly nowhere near as bad as some of the other names that get bandied about on here .

NadiaWadia · 23/06/2016 17:19

Well it's not an attractive name, and has a distinctly older middle-aged feel, but hidden away as second middle it'll be fine. I suppose the actual sound of the word is not too bad. Lovely to honour your dad, you can't leave him out if you're doing it for the other GF!

FurbysMakeSexNoises · 23/06/2016 17:11

I went for pretty but meaningless middle names for my two and a couple of years later I regretted it and changed them to family names.

Clawdy · 23/06/2016 16:36

When my third son was born, l briefly considered giving him my dad's name as a middle name,but decided it was much too old-fashioned. Now, years later, it is much more in fashion than the one I picked, and my son always says he would have loved that reminder of his grandad, who died when he was two. Also , my dad would have been so pleased. It's one of my big regrets.

septembersunshine · 23/06/2016 16:36

Could you just take the K and use a different name? So use, for example, Kai/Kian/Kieran and tell your dad that you don't like using family names that much but you wanted to honour him so the K is for him? I don't know if that is going to work! We are doing that for our son. Our first son is called Jack, his brother is due in two months and he is so excited so we are using James for his brother middle name (we had a list of other J names but that seems to go better with the first name we picked) as a little nod to him - with the 'J'. Just an idea!

Mycraneisfixed · 23/06/2016 16:34

How about two middle names so Keith is the third name?

YellowOfficeBlock · 23/06/2016 16:33

My 12yo son has a friend called Keith, so I don't associate it as an old mans name iykwim.
As a middle name it's grand. Sure, no one really uses them anyway

GruffaloPants · 23/06/2016 16:29

It is absolutely fine as a middle name! It could just as easily be a surname type thing, like Penelope Keith. Would be horrible to leave your dad out.

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