Middle or No Middle Names

[thismeansnothing]

So due DD2 in a few weeks and we are struggling with a first name as it is never mind a middle name as well.

DD1 has a middle name (DHs grandmas name) and as is the case with middle names, I forget she has it half the time, it never gets used/referred to, but DD knows her name is first, middle and surname.

So would it be odd to not give DD2 a middle name? I don't want to pick something for the hell of it but will she grow up and be like, hang on why has my sister got a middle name and I don't?

Tiredness and hormones are not helping my thinking on the matter so what do you wise MNers think.

Grandma or family middle names are nice.
I can't really understand why you would have run out of names that you like unless you already have 20 kids and loads of pets!

Neither my dds have middle names - I just don’t see the point!

@Clottedcreamfudge DD1 is just about to turn 7 a week or so after this ones arrival. Asking her thoughts for a middle is a good shout. Although after being presented with ideas of girl names a while ago she will be told it's not a definite. Our tastes are.....well a bit different! Rosabella, Isabella were 2 I remember 😂

@Snog it's more I just find girls names a bit 'meh'. There's no particular style of name that wows me, I dunno what it is. Maybe I'm just extremely fussy 🤔

My sister had a middle name but my brother and I were never given ones. It wasn't a source of tension amongst us. I can't see the point of middle names uless they are to honour someone, ie there is some meaning to them, not just another name you kind of fancied.

I don't see the point of middle names, especially if your first and surname aren't that common.

However, if I gave ons child a middle name, I'd probably give them all one.

Neither me, my husband or any of our siblings have middle names. I did wish I had one when I was at school and we had to decorate our art books with our three initials and I only had two so the teacher suggested I just pick a random letter instead. That clearly left an impression on me.

I also have s friend who removed hers my depol because she hated hers so much so it’s most definitely a personal preference.

My siblings and I didn’t have middle names and we never missed them. My husband and I will probably skip giving a middle name to our child.

I have a middle name now, because I took my husband’s name when I married and made my maiden name my middle name.

Among our family there are equal numbers with or without middle names. Because only one name is generally much less common I think it’s a bit special.
I envy my sister’s only name because my middle name is awful.

I don't have a middle name. It is great when filling out forms! But annoying when people become convinced you have one which must be so awful they won't accept you don't have one (this happened a lot at school). Both my children have two middle names so their form filling will take longer!

I personally love middle names as i've had several names in mind for my children and its a way of using up 2 names instead of having to shortlist just 1. It also was very handy for me when i had my son, when i didnt like the name his dad wanted to choose so i said we could use it as his middle name and he was happy with that lol. And as middle names are rarely used for anything its never bothered me that i still dont like his middle name.
I have a middle name, but my sister doesn't. This is because she was poorly when born and needed to be named quickly so there wasnt time to think of one. Nobody has ever wondered why one of us has one and the other doesn't and obviously if it does come up, we just explain why she doesnt have one.

How about other grandmothers name for middle name ? xx

All my children have middle names because I always felt annoyed one of my sisters had a middle name and I didn't. Can't mention the name but it's not a name many people would be jealous off!!

Speaking as a second child I would have been extremely annoyed if my older sister had a middle name and I didn't.

As it was we didn't have one. I added one when I got married to honour my grandmother and to stop me having the same initials as MIL.

You used one grandparent for DD1 use another for DD2. Make a list of family names and get DD1 to choose.

Or also just an idea how about the same middle name as your first girl. Me and my two cousins both have the same middle name and we always loved that. ❤️

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The people I know who don’t have middle names (my mum, a couple of old friends) always wished they had one. One of them added a middle name as an adult.

I didn’t like mine as a child but I love them now.