Like Jonah, but not...

[Biscuitbreaker]

My son's middle name is Jonas. It was our second favourite name, and the only other name we could agree on.

Now, I'm pregnant again ? it's VERY early days, so I've a long way to go... but my fingers are crossed and I'm so excited ? and the only boy's name we like is Jonah.

Now, we don't really use DS1's middle name, but I think it might be too much to have Jonas and Jonah

so my options are...

1. Do it anyway (Just don't want him to feel he had a 'recycled' name)
2. Change DS1's middle name, and pretend it was a typo... (kidding)
3. Hope mumsnetters can find me something I love as much. An obvious choose would be Noah, but that's off the table.

Of course, it may be a girl. (I've got a great girl's name )

What do you all reckon?
x

Oh goo on. Tell us your girl's name.

How about Eli?

Jago?

Use Johan instead?

I can't Merry - tis a closely guarded secret. Well, for about 7 months anyway! (fingers crossed)

Does anyone think I could just use Jonah anyway and it'd be fine?

I would change ds1's middle name if he is too young to really know it. I think it would be weird to have Jonas and Jonah. You do talk about middle names as kids, and I think it would make ds2 feel odd that his name was so similar. Mind you, I know twins called Alec and Alex !

Micah?

I think it would be fine. But I still prefer Johan

I doubt they'd mind at all, and if they ever ask you can just say that you wanted them to have similar names.

Now I like Johan and love Micah, but my husband doesn't like either...

How about Malachi?

There's an Ezra at ds1's school.

Gideon

Jude

Just use Jonah, it's lovely and middle names don't come up in conversation that often.

Go on!

Plaguegroup, Atruthuniversally...,

I'm so tempted. I swing between 'It's fine - the first names are totally different' and 'their teachers will all raise their eyebrows'

I'm a teacher. I barely glance at middle names.

i think it would be fine, he will have his own middle name as well? and they are different names :)

Josiah
Joel
Ehren

( I really like Jonah btw, and DS is Joel!)

Yeah he would have his own middle name.

Thanks so much for all the replies - I didn't expect so many so fast.
I'm glad some people think I could use it and get away with it!

The other thing to bear in mind is that they won't spend the rest of their lives having the same teachers, I don't know most of my friends' middle names, I certainly don't know their siblings' middle names.

The worst you can possibly go through is a few years of the odd person making a face and DS2 will have a cool name for the rest of his life!

Judah

Plaguegroup - oh, I know, the teacher comment was just a flippant one - I think more of having to explain to people "isn't Jonah your other kid's middle name?" "No, his middle name is Jonas" "Oh... "

Ha ha.
You're right though - it's hardly a huge deal.

I have cousins (who are brothers) who share a name. First boy is James Joseph, second brother is Joseph Stephen. When first boy was born he was JJ for weeks as the parents couldn't decide if they preferred James or Joseph for him as a first name. When second boy arrived nobody in the family thought anything of him being named Joseph (his brother's middle name) we just thought it was a nice name. They're now in their twenties and it doesn't seem to bother them at all.

...and people rarely remember your child's middle name, unless you choose something that's nicely unusual, dreadfully 'yoo-nike' or just plain awful!

For example I only know the middle names of a couple of my friends. One of those has a middle name of Roy, but a really modern (for the 70's, and by today's standards too) first name. Mind you, my DD will probably in the same position as she grows up as she has an incredibly old fashioned granny name (and not one that's coming back around) as her middle name after my lovely grandmother!

Also, teachers rarely know or pay attention to middle names, particularly secondary school teachers. I'm a core subject teacher and learning the names of 200+ students every September is difficult enough without making the task any more difficult by also trying to learn middle names! Non-core teachers often teach half an entire year group of each KS3 year group so have even more names to learn and even less attention to give middle names.

In a nutshell, if you both love the name and feel it is the one, go for it!

I don't think it's a problem. Go for it!

Do it. No one knows or cares about middle names unless you use them regularly.

Use Jonah

Or Noah?