Is it crazy to give my surname as a middle name?

I wish I'd done this - well, I wish I'd given DD my maiden name as a second middle name, not instead of the one she has. I have my maiden name as a middle name though, I dropped my original one. The doctor's surgery still likes to use it, and some organisations think I'm double barrelled, but I like having it there.

The daft thing is, I thought it was just something the Americans did, until my dad pointed out it was a Scottish tradition ... appropriate, given it's a Scottish surname.

I did. Don't use it day to day, but nice to know it's there.

I had no idea until recently that this was not as common a practice throughout the UK as it is in Scotland.

My brother has my mother's maiden name as his middle name. When my dd was born we decided that, instead of using my 3-syllable maiden name together with dh's 3-syllable surname (which I took on marriage), we would give her dh's mother's 1-syllable maiden name as her sole middle name.

It never occurred to me that anyone would find it odd.

My 16 year old son has my maiden surname as his middle name. I understand this is common in Scotland and since both mine and hubby's family are of Scottish origin and both boys have very Scottish first names it seemed natural.Eldest son has late FIL name as his middle name and I wanted our second son to have a name from my family. I didn't like my dad's name and due to 'difficulties' relating to me having a step dad as well, decided to give him MY maiden surname so that he was named after me.Of course, there was the added bonus that all my dad's family were well chuffed to think that my son has their surname!

Herecomethegirls, what I did and it seems lot of other people here did was to give a 'normal' middle name then 'surname' middle name. I agree that if you only had the surname one you could feel a bit cheated.

It probably was because I didn't like the surname I have as a middle name!!

Yep - I did this. Apols if this has been mentioned higher up the thread (rushing to type before feeding dd) but it can really help when travelling to have your surname in your children's passports if you're on your own with them and didn't take dh's name on marriage.

We gave our dd my surname as her third middle name. So when immigration officials wonder if i'm trying to steal smuggle her through the borders, I can point to my surname in her passport.

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i have brown as a middle name, my birth mother was scottish but her maiden name wasn't brown so i don't know where it is from.

i'm scots too btw!

We did this - we aren't married and I wanted DD to have my surname as part of her name, so she is 'DD middlename myname hisname'.

I am Scottish...personally, my mum did this with me and I have always hated my middle name and wanted a "normal" type middle name, but maybe thats just me!!

DS1 has my maiden anme, was a problem when we realised we should have double barrelled it to normalise dh's surname which i took (lovely on girls, pants for boys) but other than that REALLY glad I did it s it meant a lot to Dad (who had girls, all of whom married and took new names)

Of course not! We gave dd my surname as a middle name (I also kept it as a middle name). It's very very common practice in Scotland btw, but can seem a little strange to the english.

My brother has our grandmother's maiden name as his 3rd name because it died out with my granny and her sister.
I am double-barrelled but we were a bit steamrollered into single surname for our kids (we live in Poland where bureaucracy is gone mad and you have to choose your kids' surnames when your marriage papers are being drawn up!!). I later mega-regretted this as I have my Mum's maiden name (Taylor) as my surname and that too dies out with my generation, so my DD2 has that name as her middle name.
We could have changed their surnames but their original surname is stuck with them for life anyway (on practically everything you have to give all previous surnames). Aha and the other bureaucratic quirk here is that you can only give 2 first names!! And only if one parent is foreign can you have a name that's not "Polish". All girls' names have to end in -a, for instance, and you can't give surnames as first names (so with DD2 we had a mega-fight on 2 counts - hats off to DH for sorting that one out).

I took DH's name when I married, but both DC have my maiden name as second surname. Happily, its a first name/surname type name, and is even unisex as a first name...but I would have done it regardless.

I haven't done it but I rather wish that I had-seems very sensible.

We did exactly the same. Didn't double-barrel as that would make it more difficult for DD when she learns to write her name so she has four names. Don't see the issue. It will generally just be used as an initial, surely?

i think its a great idea and although im married to dh so and we all share his name-my surname was more unusual and there isnt many left so i wanted to do what your saying but dh fault it was silly

My 3 DC all have my surname as a second middle name, and they love sharing a middle name and a surname. I would be really sad now if we hadn't decided to do it, as they have a different surname to me.

It also gives dd an obvious link with her cousins, who all have the same middle name - means a lot to her as an only child

Perfectly reasonable thing to do - I knew a girl at school whose middle name was Livingstone (her mother's maiden name).

it used to be fashionable years ago (18th/19th century) to give kids their mothers maiden name as a first name if it was an 'important' family.