Your Middle Name

DS’s middle name is Neo.

ExH really liked The Matrix.

DS likes it though, and it goes well with his long first name.

Mine is Katherine. Early 80's child. I quite like it and I've yet to meet anyone with it as a middle name.

@redrobyn2021.
People mispronounce it on forms and such , they say odell like doddle without the d lol.

Mary. Like 95% of Irish women born pre-1980.

I don't like it or dislike it, it's just a name I need to input on forms sometimes. For all the stressing about middle names I see gong on here I rarely have cause to think about my middle name.

Didn’t get given one, unlike sister who was middle named after an aunt , and later a brother middle named after no one at all. My mother had a number of other sisters so I could have had one of their names, but didn’t! So when I was little, if anyone asked me, I was Viques Rose.

Still rankles that my parents didn’t love me enough to spend a few minutes choosing a middle name.

My middle name is for my grandmother. Can't say I've ever given it much though. It's a normal name. I'm expecting my first DC next year, and think I will chose a family name for the middle name

My ds's middle name is the male equivalent of my dm's 1st name : Paula / Paul for eg. All my nephews' middle names are either their dad's first name or granddad's first name. I think middle names are a lovely opportunity to honour relatives.
As my parents allowed me, I let my ds choose his own confirmation name. He chose his paternal granddad's first name. He was Jamaican and died 6 weeks before my ds's birth and, and it's very biblical ( I don't mean Jacob or Elijah even. Very extreme). When he came home from school he made us laugh declaring that no one else had chosen said name !

@Inthesameboatatmo

I think that's a beautiful name, why don't you like it?

Della
My dad loved it and I've never met another
I bloody hate it-but if dad asked then I love it

Mine is my grandmother's name. In our family we tend to have first names our parents liked, and then middle names which are family names on both sides (eg DS has one of each of our grandfathers).

I have a very unusual middle name. It was my grandmother's and she hated it and used an entirely different one. She died the year I was born. My brother just has my father's first name as his middle name.
DP has his grandfather's first name (although he was still alive when he was born).
DC have the name of a cousin of mine (still alive but to give a connection to that side of the family) and the name of an uncle who died just before his birth.
Both unusual for their age and country of birth.

I love my middle name, I hate my first name and wish I had had my middle name instead. My daughter has the same middle name as me as it is also a family name.

Patricia. After my Nan.
Hated it when I was a child (apparently I used to try and swap it with my cousins) but I really like it now.

Mine's Rose haha. Early 30s. Friends in my school year that I know of - Dorothy, Pamela, Rachel, Hannah, Veronica, Laura, Elizabeth, Louise.

First DC is on the way and we are thinking we want a one syllable middle name, but to avoid the overused Rose, May, Grace, Jane, Anne etc. It's quite hard!

Mine is Ann. Boring and of the era but has family meaning. It DID influence my child's middle name - I incorporated the Ann sound but chose a more interesting name that had additional meaning to me (eg Anastasia).

I have 2 of them, and so do all my kids.

Yes I like mine, I picked them . I was raised with two middle names as well, I had no strong feelings towards though at times I went just by my second middle name just for fun. Being raised with two is why my kids have 2.

In my family multiple middle names or double first names are common, though they also have a habit of through giving children additional middle names, particularly when in trouble, which did cause some confusion.

My middle name is my Mums maiden name
Carey
My DDs middle name is Grace , which was the name of one of my grandmas ( the other grandma has a very unattractive Welsh name which she begged me not to use )

I have two. They're nice names, buy my full name with surname before I changed my surname was absolutely massive! Loads of syllables.

Think Alexandra Francesca Harriet Davidson

My middle name is Odell ,absolutely fuckin hate it . The way it's pronounced it should have an E on the end of it .

DD1’s middle name is after the student midwife who helped deliver her (difficult birth, disability diagnosed etc). She was so lovely. It’s not a name I would ever have chosen and I don’t love it but don’t dislike it and it reminds me of the lovely young lady who was there at such an emotional time of my life. DD2’s Elizabeth after the Queen.

I don't have one, DC don't have one

Friends are mainly Something Ann or Something Jane and a few are Something Margaret, and a smaller number are Something Mary or Something Elizabeth

Louise- yes I was born in the 80s! A filler name and not even useful as an alternative to my disliked first name, as my surname also started "Lou".

Kids each have family names as middle names which are also names we like and could be used day to day.