We’re due our first baby soon and always knew our girl’s name would have my sister’s name as the middle name because she passed away. We’re having a boy (obviously no guarantee we’ll ever use the girls name) but we were really struggling for boy’s middle names. The middle name we have just now is my grandpa’s middle name (his first name didn’t go). My grandpa died last year but my gran is still alive and will be the only great grandparent left so thought it would be lovely for her when we told her he has the same middle name.
Is this bad if both are from my side of the family though? The girls middle name is a definite but the boy’s not so much, just think it would be nice. The only other middle name with any meaning would be my husband’s middle name (he isn’t entirely sure what the meaning is but he knows other people in the family have it). It actually does flow better but probably has less meaning or sentimental value. The only negative about that is 2 out of 3 of the baby’s names are the same as my husband’s name then so they only have a different first name.
Does it matter if both names are from my side, given the second name is from his? We both just have one middle name and I don’t want to use two names so we really need to just pick one! If we had second boy obviously this wouldn’t be an issue and we’d just use his middle name then