To not give my son a middle name?

[LightningFinn]

I like a lot of names, but I just can't find the right one!

AIBU to not give my son a middle name ?

I didn't have a middle name (neither does my Mum). She couldn't see the point of it - I never thought she couldn't be bothered. It isn't all that much more effort to call a child Rupert Robert Rollo Robinson than Rupert Robinson.

None of my children have middle names.

Neither me or my DB have one and doesn't bother us. You never notice what you haven't got.

Just be careful of initials though as there won't be a middle name to offset dodgy combo's

I am known by my middle name. To be honest, I really wish I had just the name I am known by and my surname.

Fine to have no middle name. It isn't compulsory, and is nobody else's business.

I'm going to go against the grain and say give him a middle name.

As part of my job I often have to look people up on a database. It is really annoying trying to work out which Joseph Bloggs I am looking for in a long list. At least if I know I am looking for a Joseph Reginald Bloggs I can narrow it down considerably.

I found it hard enough picking first names never mind middle names! None of my boys have one. I have one that I hate.

My kids all have middle names. I don't why I bothered because they never use them and I pretty much forget what they are until it gets mentioned in conversation at which point I think to myself "I'd forgotten I'd even middle named you that."
YANBU

I haven't got a middle name and I always wished I had. I feel a bit short changed!

I don't have a middle name...neither did my Mum or her sister, but I have always felt a bit sad about it. I even considered taking my Mum's maiden name as a middle name. It isn't helped by the fact that my name is very popular for my age, there were five girls in my class with my name and it was the number one name in my birth year. Of course my parents did not realise this would be the case. My brother had a middle name, and I have given both my children middle names.

DH hates his, my Mum and Aunt hate theirs. Mine is very normal and boring but I can't remember the last time I had to use it.

Make for a bit of a laugh at weddings when they are a bit unusual and you never knew.

My DC don't have them. We thought they might like to choose their own when they were old enough, but they don't seem bothered at all. Some of their friends have middle names, some don't.

I never use mine, even though I quite like it.

Me and my brother don't have any as my mum couldn't be arsed getting into family politics about naming us after a relative. Plus my paternal grandmother had an awful name that doesn't go with the surname very well.

I have a middle nam,e which has no meaning whatsoever. I use it so infrequently that I have to spell it out to myself when using it.

My brothers middle name is the same as my dads and my granddads (tradition in our family) which used to make me feel a bit sad that the women in our family didn't have that tradition at all.

My DD has a middle name but only because Exh insisted on giving her her first name and I wanted to name her too, so I gave her her middle name after my grandmother who died in 2011. It's a nice name but no-one ever uses it, even her Nursery didn't care what it was when I registered her there.