Would it be awful to re-use a name for sibling?

[staylucky]

As in when we had our son we presumed he would be our last and used all our fav names (two middle names) we are having another boy shortly and DH is absolutely set on DS1's first middle name but i'm a bit meh at the thought of nicking my poor boys middle name. Like we were just too lazy to think of anything else

[totally sick of looking at babyname lists emoticon]

Of course you can't! People on here are always going on about the right name for the baby and individuality and not giving your baby the same name as your boss's cousin one removed- and here you are taking one child's carefully chosen name and giving to to his brother!!!!! You are being unfair to both of them.

And for people who Arequipa citing George Forman, just because a bonkers person does something doesn't mean that it's ok for anyone else to do it. Frank Zappa called his child Moon Unit. And Michael Jackson called his, I think, Prince Michael. Doesn't mean it's right!

Not weird at all for me. My younger sister has my first name as her middle name.

In our family middle names are used to name the child after someone else, not just another name that we like.

When my parents had me they named me (middle name) after both my grandmas (by coincidence they both had the same first name). This name was also my Mum's middle name.

When they had my sister they named her after me. (There is a big age gap between us.)

Never, ever been a problem. My sister said recently that if she ever has a girl she will use my name (and therefore her middle name) for her child's middle name.

Calling one child Prince Michael seems fair enough. Calling a second son Prince Michael II was just plain weird.

My brother named his second child with his first child's middle name (different sex's) I found it a bit weird as there are gazillions of names, but the kids seem to like "sharing" the same name (age 3 and 4)

The thing is, people get all hung up on names before the baby comes. But as long as you have chosen a name you like, you grow to love it because it is your baby's name. It's fine in the end.

I once had a French friend who had as a middle name a name that had already been given to her elder sister as a first name. Like, um, Pippa Middleton having Catherine as a middle name.

That did strike me as odd but I think in their case there were traditional family names which were used regularly so it seemed quite normal for them to be recycled.

One naming tradition I think is rather lovely is from Scotland - a Scottish family I know of always call first sons either John or James (i.e. if your father was John you'd be James, and you'd call your son John), but all the sons have a second name which is unique, so people are known by both names to differentiate them. As in 'Is that John Fraser or John Douglas?'. 'No, it's John Duncan'.

Does make life complicated but I do like the fact these old traditions are being kept up by some people!

I'm pretty sure you could come up with a fresh name