I really want to honour my DH's granddad by giving our son his name as a middle name but his name is....

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GoodEggy · 11/07/2016 20:02

Donald

He's the loveliest man ever and I'd really like to honour him like this but I'm just not sure I can do that to my son!

How bad is it?

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GoodEggy · 11/07/2016 20:07

I don't know his middle name. Wouldn't it be a bit obvious we'd avoided Donald if we went for his middle name though? I don't want it to turn into a backhanded compliment!

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MyCatIsABiggerBastardThanYours · 11/07/2016 20:06

How about just Don (if that was what the Grandad was known as)? Maybe a bit trendier.

Having said that my DS middle name is Mervyn after my dad so it's no worse than that.

Muskateersmummy · 11/07/2016 20:06

Use it. You'll always regret it if you don't we nearly didn't use the name we wanted (to remember someone very close to us) because we had a dd. We chose to use a female version of it because we thought we might regret it if we only had one.... We now only have one child, and whilst it's not a name I would ever have used for her, I am so glad we did use it.

It's a middle name they are rarely used in practice anyway

MajesticSeaFlapFlap · 11/07/2016 20:05

My oldest son's is Kenneth.
He's a teen now and now his grandad has sadly passed he's glad he has it.

sooperdooper · 11/07/2016 20:05

I quite like it!

swancourt · 11/07/2016 20:04

I think Donald is fine as a middle name. What are your first name choices?

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 11/07/2016 20:03

Not awful, awful.

What's his middle name? Can you use that.

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