To think that no one likes their middle name?

[PandaPieForTea]

My DDs like each other’s middle names, but not their own. DH and I don’t like ours. Extrapolating to the rest of the world, no one likes their middle names, but I am not sure why.

I have two. I'm pretty indifferent to them, though they were both my grandmothers names. Louise is one of them of course, being born in the 70s! (And was actually my nan's middle name as my mum didn't want to use Irene!)

My kids middle names are also family names, except the youngest as I names him after two characters from my favourite childhood book.

I don't think they mind them, they are pretty normal run of the mill middle names - a Robert, Simon, Matthew, John etc.

Love mine. It's my mother's maiden name, so my late Gran's surname, and I'm proud to wear it.

Like others mine is very much a standard filler name given to loads of girls in the 70s/80s.

I remember clearly a discussion we had at primary school where it was discovered every single girl I’m the class had Claire, Jane or Louise as their middle name. Parents in our village were an imaginative bunch...

I've got two and love them

Mine is Jane. I quite like it, but it's not exactly original.

I always thought I'd give my daughter a really unusual middle name, but none of the ones I liked went well with her first name. So, her middle name is Rose. The 2010s equivalent of Jane, surely.

Mine is a nothing name. Like literally why bother?

DP's middle name is our DS's first name. DS's middle name is that of FIL and my brother.

My DD's just have names we liked. I still love both their middle names but thankfully still prefer their first names.

Middle names are fussy,clunky and a strangled nod to old fashioned etiquette
Especially when it strays into the 3 forename plus surname
Essentially middle name a name that’s unused but still knocks about. Pointless

I don’t have a middle name,nor do my kids.

I like mine

Louise yes! I dislike it because it’s so common!

LipstickHandbagCoffee, I agree that middle names can be clunky. But I thought the point of them was to help distinguish people from each other. E.g. Sarah Celeste Smith from Sarah Fern Smith. Admittedly, it doesn't work so well if hundreds of people are called Sarah Louise Smith and Sarah Jane Smith. Luckily, my DD and I both have unusual first names.

@Cattenberg

My mum’s cousin ended up being called “Big A” to differentiate from two girls called the same forename and surname with no middle names.

Conversely my MIL had the same name as someone in her class and simply swapped to her middle name.

Far more pleasant!

I have two I really like them although before I changed my surname my full name had 25 characters which made form filling annoying at times. I also always spell one of my names wrong, don't know why it's a mental block!

Mine's Louise, as a pp says a standard filler name along with Jane in the 60's/70's.
My younger brother and sister have family middle names, as a child I used to hate mine was a nobody's name haha.

Mine's Louise, as a pp says a standard filler name along with Jane in the 60's/70's.
My younger brother and sister have family middle names, as a child I used to hate mine was a nobody's name haha.

I hate mine. It’s a Welsh name (I have a Welsh parent) and of all the gorgeous Welsh names they could have chosen they chose a duff one. My sister also has a Welsh middle name and hers is beautiful sulks

I hate mine, it’s not ‘me’ at all.

I like mine, but i now really regret DD middle name

DC1 and I love our middle names. DH thinks his are ok. DC2 is too young to have an opinion!

i was named after my two grandmothers and my middle name (Julia) is ok i dont like my first name because to many isabel necessary jokes all my life,

the kids oldest has a family middle name, my dad, his grandad , dad middle name and my father in law all johns, my daughters louise because it went with her first name, and my youngest stuart because my dad was scottish

I don't mind mine, it's after my nan and not that sandwich filler. Unfortunately the middle name I wanted for DD (even before she was born) is very 'every girl baby has it' - Rose. It was a family name though, which is why I wanted it so I stuck with it. She also has a second less common middle name, after her great gran.

I like mine as it isn't Jane or Louise (70s baby) it's not common but not unusual
DD has DH's late mum's name for hers who died when he was young, I like that it has significance to us

Mine’s pretty common. I added a second one when I deed-polled my surname a few years ago though

Mine (Marjorie) is OK. It’s old-fashioned but it’s after a great-grandmother. Mum and my aunts have the typical 60s/70s ones (two Janes and two Claires).
I never really think about mine much.

I am OK with mine. A number of people use their middle name, indeed two former Prime Ministers of my lifetime, and the current Foreign Secretary.