How did you pick your child's middle name?

2 middle names for ours, one from mine and one from dh’s family.
Just check they don’t spell out a real word with the initials.
Middle names are rarely used so don’t worry about them ‘going together’ if they are otherwise nice and meaningful to you.

DH's mum's name as she died a few years ago and never got to meet her first grandchild It's also the same name as my best friend's mum, who I was very close to, who passed away a couple of years ago too.

It was done at short notice! We got a letter from the registry office telling us we had 3 days left to register. My husband came up with a slightly unusual (but not freakish) name, that actually fitted well. So off I went. Came home and he was very excited about sneaking a football team reference past me! However, he hadn't - he'd got the name of the stand at his team's ground wrong so the name isn't anything to do with that team. How I laughed!

We were going to use DH a grandpas name - who roared his head off laughing (it’s not the thing to do where he is from) before he realise we weren’t kidding, so we went with Plan B - a name we both liked and went with the first name (no brainer - after my late, great dad).

DS has my grandads name for his middle name. He was the most positive male influence in my life. If my in-laws are offended they haven't said anything.

My elder daughter's middle name is my mother's name - and the name of my favourite Jane Austen heroine.

My younger daughter's name is a similar style name. It's also my sister's middle name, my oldest friend's name, and the name of another Jane Austen heroine.

I thought about using one of my mother in law's names, but they're both very dated and I don't like them.

DS got my dead father's name. That was always the deal.
DD, got a similar version of my middle name - my grandmother was French and I have her name but I thought it might be funny us both having the same, so I chose something very similar.

DS has two middle names, both family names, one from each side. There were reasons why we picked the ones we did.

We thought we'd done OK with one from both sides, but my dad chose to be an arse about us not having picked any name from "his" family (the one I chose from my side was from my mum's family). But most of us generally always have at least one relative standing ready to be an arse, about any given event or decision :-) As you can't please everyone, I strongly believe when picking your baby's name(s), your job is therefore to please yourself. If that means a family name, OP, use the family name!

We just picked names we liked, no family connection. DD1 has a quite classic, conventional first name and her middle name is a bit more unusual. DD2 has a slightly more unusual first name so we gave her a more traditional middle name. It's nice to have a choice if you grow up not liking your first name.

Both DC have two middle names, one from each side.
I did want to use one of my Grandma's but they were Edna & Hilda, & as a friend of mine said 'some names are meant to die out...' So we went with GMIL & my Mum's middle name.

Ds2 and DD have two middle names one from each side of the family but because we liked them not out of obligation to keep it even

DD - After my husbands grandma
DC2 will be my great grandmas name, or my grandads middle name

I looked at the family tree and picked names I actually liked. I'm not bothered about making it "fair" on either side of the family. The men in my husbands family all have really goofy names like Melvin and Walter so I wouldnt have used those.

for middle names my eldest boy has my dad’s name, my middle boy has my brother’s name, and my daughter has my sister’s name. i’m due another girl and we’re planning to use my mum’s and my boyfriend mum’s names as middle names this time. we all tend to use each other’s names in my family. my niece has my name and i have my aunt’s.

DD has a name we both liked
DD2 shares a middle name with cousin
DS was named after his grandfather although that was ‘luck’ as neither is knew and we were asked to use the other GF name as a middle name. It works well.

My dd has my Mum's first name as her middle name (which coincidentally was my grandma's name and dh's grandma's name). My ds has my fil's middle name as his middle name.

One has his grandfather’s name but the others have the names of protagonists from our favourite books

We used DPs father's name, he was the most important person in his life. He sadly passed away when DS was only 4 months old.

My family didn't mind at all. He was the first boy in 3 generations of mostly single mothers so no one was expecting him to be named after them!

I just absolutely loved the name. Still do, 21 and a bit years later.

No ties to it at all, no family connections to upset, just a great name.

I have kind of always wished I'd given it to her as her first name tbh. (I was not with her dad when she was born so it was my choice entirely, although we did get back together and subsequently married)

Her middle name is Jasmine.

My oldest 2 dont have middle names, No one in their dads side of the family does, and as the agreement was I chose first and exh chose middle, that's what happened!

Ds2's middle name is after DH's favourite marvel character, and dd2's is DH's late mothers name (we had the same agreement)

one was a sweep-stake on the family whatsapp

Ds had his dads birth name (dh is adopted, we were originally going to use as first name but came across another name we loved) and my dads name which was also DH grandads name. They sound nice together and grown up

As my girls have their father's surname aka my husband I insisted that their middle names be from my family so my eldest has the same middle name as all the 1st born females on my mother's side of the family (including my mother and me), my youngest has my grandmother's mother's name as her middle name.

My dcs middle names are all after deseaced relatives.
With dd her middle names sound more like a hyphenated name than 2 separate ones but it didnt matter.

DD has two middle names. One grandmother from either side. The names don’t really “go”, but literally the only times they are said together is when DD asks how to spell her full name .