Mothers maiden name as middle name?

My children have 4 names

First name. Middlename (that is a first name ) middlename (that is a surname) surname

They all hate it says it regularly gets messed up with people adding a hyphen or thinking both names gets used or calling them by the first (not used) surname.

Oddly dh has this exact same set up for his name and has never had a issue. So I think its ecome an issue as our children. Grew and more double barrelled named became the norm.

Having said all of that I still love their names and wouldn't change it. (Obviously they can of they wish to they are all adults)

It's quite common in Wales, or if the maiden name is a common one that doesn't flow, to use a grandmother's maiden name.

I can think of siblings where it hasn't been used for all of them, where it is usually the eldest or youngest who has the mother's maiden name as a middle name.

Not RTFT.

Found this old thread as I was about to start one on the same subject.

I am expecting my 2nd boy and would like to give him my maiden name as a middle name.

Is it strange that I didn’t do this with his big brother? Does it matter?

The name would follow the structure of: First Name, Middle Name, [my maiden name], Last Name.

Big brother has 2 middle names (neither are my middle name).

Is this fine? (Obviously it’s fine to do whatever you want but will people think it’s odd that just the 2nd boy has my name
as a middle name and 1st boy doesn’t?)

Thanks!

I have my mums maiden name as middle name and my daughter has mine. As others have said I don’t really see point in middle name unless it’s a meaningful name

I'm giving my baby my mother's maiden name as a middle name (ie not my maiden name, which I have kept).

I have my dad's surname but my mum brought me up. She kept her maiden name too (luckily as my parents then divorced) and I want to honour her.

Give him your surname and his father's as a middle name?

My kids have my maiden game as a middle name (along with a regular name). No issues so far. My name is double-barrelled with DH's so the can choose what to use when they're older.

Yes do it!! In Scotland this is very common, especially in countryside/farming communities. Personally I don't really see the point in a middle name unless it has some kind of family link or tradition.

We did this with my youngest, wish I had done it with all of them. My maiden name was a traditional surname but has been used as a first name more and more over the last 20 or 30 years. I know a baby with it as a first name and the family has no connection with it as a surname. I suppose it might depend on the name.

DS2 has my maiden name as his middle name. He likes it. No teasing as far as I'm aware at school.

I think it's a much better option than just choosing a random name as a 'filler' for a middle name, which lots of people do and which always seems a bit pointless to me.

DS1 had a bit of a 'family name' from DH's side for his middle name, and as both boys have DH's surname as well I wanted my family in there for DS2.

I only have a name (not a maiden name).

DD has Firstname Secondname Mysurname DHsurname.

Never caused her or anyone else any confusion and she loves that she has such a strong link to both sides of her family.

My siblings and I all have old family names as middle names.

Mainland, Balfour and Burnett.

I think it’s absolutely lovely.

Both of my sons have my surname as their second middle name. I use my un-married name, so it makes sense for them to have it too.

My DH has this and hated it when younger, we did briefly consider double-barrelling to make it a surname again. He's more used to it now but absolutely hated it well into his twenties I'd say. He would avoid using it wherever possible.

My brother has my mum's maiden name as a middle name and my dad his mum's - Scottish family. We did not do that with my son as my dad died a few months before ds was born so he has my dad's first name as his middle name.

It's definitely a common thing in North America and has been for generations, but more so among female babies. So, my middle name is my maternal grandmother's maiden name, my mother's middle name was her maternal grandmother's maiden name, and so on, back for literally hundreds of years in my family.

The down-side for me when I was in school was that most/all other children had middle names that were basically first names, whereas I had this slightly odd middle name which scored a bit of derision (because kids can be cruel), so I ended up hating it, even though I love the tradition it comes from. Even now in the rare occasion when I have to give middle names (I discovered in my late teens/early twenties that I have a second even stranger middle name but that's a whole other story!) I do get people pausing and requiring extra spelling/repetition because it's not the expected type of name. But it's no biggie.

I didn't change my name when I married, so my DSs surnames are double-barrelled. I wasn't having my name being hidden and forgotten as a middle name, which I find middle names invariably are, so my sons just sound dead posh instead We didn't give them middle names because we assumed they'd be using up all the boxes on application forms with their surnames alone, so didn't want to give them the extra hassle.

My children all have my surname as a second middle name.

It’s quite normal in my experience, not just in Scotland. Off the top of my head I know of maiden name middle names” of Ambrose, Innes, Harvey, Johnson and Dawson. Definitely middles, not double barelled to surnames.

My lovely mil was diagnosed with cancer not long after we found out we were pregnant, her maiden name is often used as a first name so we have used that as a hyphenated first name, sounds lovely together, didn't sound right as a first name on its own with dps surname so she has my great grandma's name as her middle name and they flow beautifully

We're currently thinking about doing that...

There's nothing strange about this. But it really depends on your surname. (I don't know if it works with mine...)

We did this with DS2 as my maiden name won't carry on as I've no brothers. As the surname is definitely a surname we have him two middle names, a normal name and then the surname. No one batted an eyelid and he likes it.

Ps no one else cared when I was a kid.

I have my mum's maiden name as my middle name. It's very much a surname and not a particularly pretty one. I didn't like it when I was a princessy little girl - I'd have preferred something flowery! But by the time I was a teenager I really like it, and still do. I've done the same with my own DD.

My DS has my MILs maiden name as his middle name - it's a surname that is also a name in its own right. I love it, and it suits his other names that also have Celtic links.