Surname as a middle name?

A friend of mine her middle name was Kelly. Wasn't til she was older she found out that was her dads last name (didn't know her daf until in her 20s)
Another friend, has two middle names, one is jaimez, which is her mums maiden name!
And another friend put her maiden name as her sons middle name too which is Lee as her surname didn't go well as a double barrel to husbands name

I know a few people who've done this. I don't think it's that unusual - and a lovely thing to do in the circumstances.

Sounds good or can you not make a double-barrelled surname? That's what I am going to do as I don't feel like a middle name is quite enough!

My middle name is is my Dad's grandparents surname. I love it.
Guess is depends on what the surname is though.

Sorry for your loss
Do it.
My DD and her 2 cousins each have my MILs maiden name as their middle names. MIL and her sisters brought up DH and his siblings (father was mostly absent) and MIL had no brothers to carry on their surname. DH and his siblings wanted to acknowledge them for everything they did for the family.

Do it op, lovely idea and great testimony x

My son has my surname as his middle name. Now his dad and I have divorced he tends to use that and drop
His dad's name

I'm sorry for your loss.
I understand where you are coming from, but it does cause a lot of issues with large databases (think NHS and Education) when this happens. I've spent ages looking for people to find that someone else entered them under a different letter, etc due to confusion about what is their surname.
tbf, happens when people use surnames like 'Taylor' or 'Harrison' as first names too.

Might not be enough to put you off, but I thought I'd mention it as it can be difficult on massive databases.

My kids have their granddad's last name as a middle name. Gives them a connection to their roots

So sorry for your loss 💐. I think your idea is lovely, and a great way to honour your dad (and keep his family name going).

I did this with my maiden name as a middle name, very common in the north east where my family are from. You just have to be clear it's a middle name not a double barrelled surname on registration etc.

I'm also sorry to hear of your loss x

I have this. My mums reasoning (not that she needed one of course) was that anyone tracing family history on the future would find it much easier with the name as a link so my brother and I both do. Currently expecting my first baby and will do the same for them x

I did this. I also kept my maiden name as my own middle name so I like that we have the same.

It's quite common in Scotland - both my grandmothers had family names as middle names.

Sorry for your loss 
My son has my grandfather's surname as his middle name. It's an unusual Prussian word and sounds perfect.

And v good friend has done it to recognise her fathers culture with her dc. She is british/asian married to a brit so it’s lovely to continue the culture for her 🙂

So sorry for your loss

Both mine have my maiden name and another middle name so four names in total 😳. Wanted to do it as the family name from our side won’t be passed on as no boys from my d brother. Both mine now old enough to understand and LOVE it. It is so placed that should they wish to double barrel in future they could but it isn’t there as a general double barrel.

DH was slightly perplexed as i didn’t discuss it prior to registering number one, he didn’t notice with number two.

Both DB and DF have a previous maiden namesake middle names and df was born in the 30s!

I've done it with both of mine 😀so my surname is in there and so is their dads

My son has my surname as his middle name. It's lovely as I see him as named after my dad.

Sorry about your dad x

Face,
I always put my, and the DC middle names in the forename section- can’t put it in the surname bit otherwise people assume it’s a double barrelled surname!

Very common here in Scotland. Each of my DC have a surname as a middle name.

My DS has his name, df first name, df surname, DH surname. It's a lovely idea

I have a double barrelled name (post marriage) and gave my dc my maiden name as a second middle name like (not real name) Emily Sophia Brown Barrett . Do it. As my df said to my DH (in a joke)- Emily may not always be Barrett but she'll always be a Brown

I added my maiden name as a second middle name by deed poll! My dad was always disappointed that I didn’t revert to my maiden name after I got divorced and I regretted it too. This way I’ll always have it

It’s a lovely idea OP, do it!

I have done this with my children, again to preserve a cultural link to my farher’s heritage and to have my name preserved, as well as their father’s. Best wishes, OP.

Scottish here too. I have my mum's and my daughter has mine ( though I kept my own name). She now uses both it and her surname. So sorry about your Dad. I lost mine at 18 , so he didn't get to meet his DGC either.