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Mothers maiden name as middle name?

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bluebabydinosaur · 07/02/2018 09:21

What do you all think about using the maiden name as a middle name for baby? Im keen to do this for my son and wanted to know others thoughts. My surname sounds like a surname and not like a first name. I dont want to double barrel his actual surname and wondered if this would be a realistic alternative or is it just silly? Do many people do this? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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BoilYerHeid · 07/02/2018 09:35

Only 50% of the babies I can think of and that's a relatively small sample of all babies born! Grin But I definitely don't think it's uncommon.

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bluebabydinosaur · 07/02/2018 09:31

Thank you, I just dont know anyone who actually has. Glad to hear that its 50% of babies who have this now. Id like to keep my family name in there somehow.

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womaninatightspot · 07/02/2018 09:30

My eldest DD has my surname as a middle name. Scottish/ traditional but it is a name that can be used as a first name boy/ girl or surname. Not sure why anyone would get teased for it unless it became double barrelled and started sounding pretentious.

BoilYerHeid · 07/02/2018 09:28

Not sure why it would be silly? It's really normal.

We did it and when I put my mind to it I think at least 50% of the babies I know born over the last ten years or so have this same set up, both boys and girls. We did Forename Forename Mysurname DHsurname.

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bluebabydinosaur · 07/02/2018 09:26

Does having a surname as middle name caused any teasing/questions at school? Do you like having a surname as a middle name? I guess not if you used that for your children too? Many thanks

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 07/02/2018 09:25

I have it as one of mine. Unfortunately for me it's a boys name as well and I don't use it anymore. If it was a neutral name I'd like it.

NotAnotherJaffaCake · 07/02/2018 09:23

Very common in Scotland and Northern Ireland. I have my mum's maiden name as a middle name and my children do too.

stoneagefertilitydoll · 07/02/2018 09:23

My MIL suggested it to mine, but my surname just doesn't lend itself to being a forename, so we gave our second child my surname instead, and had one child with our surname each rather than double barrelling or having non-working second names (which would never get used anyway)

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