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If you have an unusual middle name, do you like it?

55 replies

Elflocks · 23/08/2018 19:14

Do you wish your parents had been a bit more conventional when they named you?

If you gave your own dcs usual middle names do you regret it?

A relative has mentioned using Dragon and it's got me thinking about names.

I am not pregnant, or planning to be - Just pondering.

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Elflocks · 23/08/2018 19:15
  • Gave your dcs unusual names do you regret it?
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BlairWaldorfsHeadband · 23/08/2018 19:15

Dragon lmao.

I think middle names are pointless but I think if I was called dragon I’d find it hilarious!

MinorRSole · 23/08/2018 19:18

Mine is awful, unusual and probably outing. I've never used it and most of my friends don't even know what it is. I don't think it matters at all but I did give my dc's nice, normal ones.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 23/08/2018 19:21

Mine is odd in that it's a family surname that sounds like a boy's name - for instance James. It makes no difference whatsoever since hardly anyone ever knows my middle name, on the odd occasion people ask why I have a boy's name and I just say it's a family name.

TakeAChanseyOnMe · 23/08/2018 19:25

DH has a Chinese middle name because he’s 1/4 Chinese and everyone in his family has a nature related Chinese middle name. He likes it because he’s very close to his DGF (who is the Chinese relative).

I have the most common middle name of people born in the late 80s!

YesILikeItToo · 23/08/2018 19:27

I have a family surname and I like having it because I see the reason and meaning. I don’t ‘like’ the name anymore than I dislike it. Any reason or meaning for Dragon?

GrouchyKiwi · 23/08/2018 19:29

My middle name is the Dutch feminine version of my great-grandfather's name, and I'm very proud of it. It's a beautiful name, IMO, and he was a hero of the Dutch resistance and wonderful man. I love being named after him. It's not the same kind of name as Dragon, though!

VladmirsPoutine · 23/08/2018 19:32

I, on the flipside, have an unusual first name - it's not unusual in the sense of the noun as it's literally a capital city but still not really 'usual' - luckily my parents gave me a standard middle-name which I could revert to if I ever chose to. It's never been an issue and has actually been a good ice-breaker when meeting new people. I wouldn't go astray in naming my own children but there's a difference even among unusual names; I don't think anyone naming their child 'Cornwall' would be well advised.

AmyRhodes · 23/08/2018 19:35

I've noticed that people seem to go to one of two extremes - Either wacky, out there middle names like Indigo, Phoenix, Danger (I genuinely one) or super boring like Claire, Anne, Jane.

I tend to think middle names are pointless unless they are a family name.

myhousesmellsofIKEA · 23/08/2018 19:36

My middle name is unusual, and also not spelt how you’d think. I really didn’t like it as a child, but I do now as it’s unique to me - I’ve never met anyone with the same name. Also, my first and surname are very common so people at least remember me!

DollyWilde · 23/08/2018 19:38

takea I bet it’s mine (Elizabeth?) Wink

I had a friend with the middle name Marjorie and she lied about it all through school as she was so embarrassed. I only found out on her wedding day...

TakeAChanseyOnMe · 23/08/2018 19:41

@DollyWilde it’s Louise. There was a thread a while back where so many posters said it was also their middle name. This generation will be Grace or Rose.

I quite like the idea of a whacky middle name, maybe have 2 middle names with one being “normal” if you’re unsure.

Armchairanarchist · 23/08/2018 19:41

I know a little boy with the middle name Badger.

UpOnTheDowns · 23/08/2018 19:45

I, on the flipside, have an unusual first name - it's not unusual in the sense of the noun as it's literally a capital city

Ouagadougou, is that you? Wink

BikeRunSki · 23/08/2018 19:46

My middle name is a Jamaican place name (where my dad lived for many years before coming back to the UK). . It’s not spelt as it sounds, and it’s nit s particularly nice sound. I hated it for a very long time. It’s onky in the last 10 years or so (I am in my 40s) that I have grown to love it, for its link to my family history.

Consequently, my dc have very mainstream names. All their names have “reasons”, but none is unusual.

VladmirsPoutine · 23/08/2018 19:47

Grin A totally different continent!

GrouchyKiwi · 23/08/2018 19:51

Ouagadougou, is that you? Grin

Our children have a "normal" middle name, then an old family surname as a second middle name.

meadowmeow · 23/08/2018 19:53

I know of a middle name

• butterfly (girl)
• floyd (girl)
• Fox - although I know of a first name fox too
• gypsy (boy)

DollyWilde · 23/08/2018 19:55

@TakeAChanseyOnMe ah fair enough! I know so many people with Elizabeth but Louise also prevalent. I actually know four Claire Louise X combos, all turning or just turned 30. Bless the imagination of our parents!

tangoed2 · 23/08/2018 20:21

Mine is very obviously football orientated and outing so I can't say but yes I do quite like it.

Mousetrap3 · 23/08/2018 20:30

I’ve got a very unusual first name and middle name! Yes I do wish I had a normal name.

ForalltheSaints · 23/08/2018 20:51

Mine is my aunt's (at the time) as she is a nun. When they reverted from a male saint's name to their birth name, I thought I would be required to change mine (I was 5 at the time)!

upsideup · 23/08/2018 20:59

My kids have unusual (as in similar to dragon) middle names, they're 3,5,9 and 11 and so far are happy with them.

NerdyBird · 23/08/2018 22:13

I have two middle names and one is unusual but it is an actual name, and it is a family name. I wasn't keen when I was younger as it was long, no-one could say or spell it and everyone else's middle name was Louise or Elizabeth.
Now I like it, my daughter and my niece both have it as one of their middle names.

MeetOnTheLedge · 23/08/2018 22:19

Mine is unusual in the sense that it was pretty well unheard of in anyone my age (more popular a couple of generations back). I hated it growing up and rarely acknowledge its existence nowadays.