5/6 middle names!

My grandma has 3 middle names plus a double-barrelled surname, so sounds like 4 - she is embarrassed by them, again good only for a memory test/reciting at parties. Please don't do it, I have 4 names in total (first and sur-) and that's MORE than enough I assure you. Your little DC will be a product of all these cultures anyway, even if you call her Jane, much more important to talk to him/her about the heritage when she is growing up.

I think that you should not do this. I personally have one middle name and my parents decided to spell it using an unusual spelling. That is embarassing enough TBH and I wonder what they were thinking.

I went to uni with someone who had 2 middle names, both of which were odd names. She was ridiculed for it during a speech that someone made to 150 people!

Another person I know has 2 strange middle names that don't fit on forms.

It is just really impractical and depending on what sort of person your child is, could be really embarassing. There are other ways to honour cultures that are important to you.

It's hard to reject names and just pick a couple,but I think you have to just make a tough decision.

Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien. Are you going to have just one child? It might be a pity to saddle one child with the weight of the family's cultural heritage and then have nothing left for DC2. Why not see if there are names that overlap from the cultures and combine a few? What are the cultures in question? Any related languages?

hmm part of me says, it doesn't matter give as many names as you want.

but a (possibly larger) part of me says, don't do it! it will be a nightmare filling in forms etc PLUS, no-one ever uses middle names. would it really honour the culture if it's never even used??

i dunno

i could go with 2 or 3 middle names. but 5 or 6 just seems a bit much

Who cares ? do what you want !!! My girls have 2 middle names and mine & ex husband surnames.

My friend has 6+ middle names. It made a good party trick at Uni, reciting them all. In reality she just uses the first middle name and has dropped the rest completely. Pointless exercise to overload with midlle names to keep her heritage alive, really.

The child will spend a great deal of their time filling in forms and ringing people up to explain they can't get all their names on one form and could they please have an extended form...etc.
1 middle name is adequate.
2 middle names is plenty.
3 middle names is excessive.
4 middle names is silly.
5+ middle names is unkind.

are you ok?

you don't have to honour every culture, if my family did this we would all have ridiculously long names!

This is your pg brain speaking!

My dds struggle with remembering and spelling their 2 middle names tbh

Actually, I really do. Think it would be ridiculous, I mean.

Pick two at the most. There are other ways to keep your child's heritage alive than middle names (that no-one ever pays any attention to anyway) you know.