How many middle names is too many?

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My nephew and niece both have two middle names. They also have fairly long first names and double barrelled surname therefore creating a really huge name when written on forms etc. I like the idea of two middle names so this is by no means a criticism of them however has got me thibking and wondered what the consensus was on this. Is two middle names too many ?

I've always wanted to use my maiden name and a name from my family/culture as middle names - meaning 2/3 for each child.

However DP has a double barrelled name, so 6 names including the double barrelled surname seems excessive.

My DMum has 3 middle names and is from a working class immigrant family.

I don't have a middle name and find them quite pointless, however DH has one and I properly wouldn't have given DD or DS middle names, however, while pregnant with DD, MIL died suddenly so we gave DD her name as a middle name, fair enough.

DH and FIL have the same name, so when I was pregnant with DS I agreed he could have the same middle name as DH and FIL's first name, but then both kids have second names from DH's family so we decided to throw in a second second name from my family. So little DS has a very long - it's a nightmare to fill in on forms. He probably won't be thanking us when he grows up.

My great grandad had 10 middle names. I keep considering adding a second middle name to DC names by deed poll as I had two names I love but will never get to use now.

Both my kids have 2 middle names. It doesn't really matter and it's none of my business, but my pet hate is siblings having a different number of middle names - choose your stance on middle names and stick to it!

My DD has two middle name and a double barrelled surname and do you know what, she loves it!! I can remember when I registered her at our GPS the receptionist saying "well she's just going to love having to write that out everyday when she starts school" I don't know anywhere where you need to write your middle names until you're an adult at least so i just shrugged and said "she sure is".

because her name is long we made a kind of game with it. She was the first at nursery to write out her whole name (first name and surname, written and orally) I personally don't like no middle names but that's just my humble opinion x

I have two which I like but one is a family name from my mother's side (aka Gwyneth Grace Wickham Smith) and my sister has the same pattern ( aka Elizabeth Rose Faraday Smith). My brother has two middle names as do both my parents, I think it's fairly normal? I like having two.

Anymore than one would be common for me.

More than two is too much. But if you have a long first name and surname best to stick with one.

DS has two middle names - I had one name I particularly wanted to use but it didn't scan well on its own.

DD has two middle names, one of which is my maiden name. It's never particularly been a faff filling in forms, and if when she's older she wants to drop one or both she's perfectly at liberty to.

My youngest has 3 middle names, all strong family connections that go back generations (one to the late 1700s). I knew he would be my last child so I had to use them all and he loves them.

common
what on earth?

whatarethose common, ha ha - are you more aristocratic than the Queen, whose children have three?

No, it's just my personal opinion.

I wanted 2 middle names for dd but DH vetoed me.

The longest name I've seen was

FirstName MiddleName1 MN2 MN3 MN4 Double-barrelledSurname

So something like John Andrew Thomas Steven Mark Smith-Jones

One is enough unless you happen to be a member of the Royal family.

It used to be quite common for Catholic people to gain one at confirmation, so normally a saint's name.

My grandfather and aunt had two as a result, having originally only had one.

Two middle names are fine, any more and it's just pointless (unless it's a double barrelled surname, in which case one is more sensible).

In all fairness only the first middle name is generally used. My first two originally only had one and then when my eldest decided to take on her step-dads surname I use my maiden name as an additional middle name. Second child still hast maiden name as surname. 3rd baby again to link the two families together I decided to give my maiden name as a second middle name as opposed to double-barrelling the surname. Bump will just have the one middle name. It's enough. They only ever get used when your child's in trouble anyway

You don't have to use them, or put them on forms.

I always wonder why people bother so much about middle names, whether they go, how nice they are, etc etc. I don't know the middle names of close family. let alone anyone elses. It's not something that ever comes up, they aren't generally used or talked about.
In my family they are almost always a name for a deceased family member .

My DS has 3 middle names - don't do it. Passport application is never fun at the best of times but the line on the form isn't long enough - don't do it! One or two short middle names only....

My sil (the only girl in o/h's family AND the baby) was saddled with bestowed with a first name and THREE middle names (letters numbering 8 4 8 and 9 and then a 5 letter surname )

I like middle names and dont feel (IMHO) that a name is 'finished' without one (plus when you use it, your child REALLY knows theyre in trouble!

I have 5 kids and they all have a first a middle and a surname. Am TTC#6 atm, and have picked names (had an mmc @9 weeks in may, hence names already being chosen) and both boys and girls have a middle name, but I have a feeling that if i do get pregnant with a girl, she will have a first name and 2 middles as we have just found out that my nan has about 3 weeks to live, so I think it will be a fitting tribute to use a version of her name too.