Please help. Need a bit of naming magic!

[ShesADreamer]

DH and I have each lost a parent whose names are our DCs middle names.
We're expecting twin boys this summer and would like to use our remaining parents' names as their middle names.

Not a prob with Mil, as there is an obvious male version, but my mother is called Annemarie! I've wracked my baby addled brain but can only come up with Marie - as in the french Jean-Marie etc.

If anyone can come up with something a bit better I'd be so grateful. It would mean the world to DM and Mil, who are not expecting this at all!

Amare, Amani or maybe she has a middle name that would be more suitable or her surname (if different from yours) or if all else fails you could let her choose one if you are feeling super brave.

As its the fusing of two names you could pick one part (anne or marie) and focus on that so use a name of the same meaning, or from the same root.

You could just co with something that sounds slightly similar like Andrew or whatever.

Or you could give your mum the honour of picking a name.

if all else fails you could let her choose one if you are feeling super brave

What about using a male relatives that means a lot to your Mum - her Dad or a brother maybe?

Let her choose - now there's a thought. Wouldn't be the surprise we planned but she would love it. She'll pick something very eccentric though.

Would never have thought of that, thanks Missy!

Her family are a bit problematic - and she has lots of brothers, all still with us so would be randomly naming him after one of my uncles!

The names I know she'd come up with if I let her choose would be truly dreadful - think unusual old testament meets Lord of the Rings - but it is just a middle name...

Oh no, maybe give her a list with two names on it and let her choose one of those then

It's a bit of a bugger isn't it? Would have been such a neat fit - 4DCs with one grandparent each as a middle name.

Baby's first name will be Theo(dore). Which do you think will inflict the least trauma:

Theo Marie or Theo Nebuchadnezzar???

Hmmm tough call the second one would be a lot more fun when he runs off in a shop and you have to 'middle name' him while telling him off.

Maybe you just need to write this off as 'one of those things that would have been lovely - but just isn't going to work'.

Would her maiden name work as a middle name?

I was about to say the same as Sugar :) My Mum had her mums maiden name as her middle name and she gave that as a middle name to one of my brothers.

Alternatively you could give him two middle initials (A M) with no actual name attached, so it would be Theo A M Surname.

I think a wacky middle name is infinitely preferable to a girl's name. I know it's a boys name in France, but I have a relative with a French girly name and it caused him dreadful teasing at school (and school friends will always find out your middle name).

Which actually gives a wee nick name of Tam :o