Has anyone used one child’s middle name as another’s first?

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Namesnamesnames13 · 18/07/2026 21:25

Anyone else’s second child have one of their first child’s middle names as their first?

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ScruffMuffin · 20/07/2026 00:37

I know two sisters whose names go like this (except that none of these are the real names):

Sister 1 - Hannah Juliet Grace
Sister 2: Juliet Grace Elizabeth

I think I'd feel short changed if I were Sister 2.

sittingonabeach · 20/07/2026 00:43

Doesn’t show a lot of imagination and treating them as individuals

NuffSaidSam · 20/07/2026 03:56

I think it's better than giving your DC a third choice name.

If your two favourite names are Jacob and Alexander and DC1 is Jacob Alexander then I would call DC2 Alexander over choosing a name that you don't really like.

Pinkissmart · 20/07/2026 07:04

Why do this?

MotherOfCrocodiles · 20/07/2026 08:39

I can see why you would. You have DD1 and use up your two favourite names of both grandma names or something, because you may never have another daughter.

then DD2 comes along and you haven’t actually said the middle name out loud since the christening, you want to make proper use of that middle name

makes sense to me

Gemstonebeach · 20/07/2026 08:50

I know sisters - Elspeth Jane and Janet Elizabeth.

gettingold55555 · 23/07/2026 17:03

I don’t think it matters and people are always saying middle names don’t matter so why would it

BabblingBiddy · 23/07/2026 19:47

sittingonabeach · 20/07/2026 00:43

Doesn’t show a lot of imagination and treating them as individuals

The sisters I know also have a younger sister. She doesn't have her older sisters names. And she hated it growing up. Because rather than feeling like an individual, she felt like she wasn't part of the group.

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