Middle name

[RubyRed85]

I'm due a baby boy in a few months, this is my 4th baby & running out of meaningful middle names. My first two have 2 each, third just has one as was running out of family names! I really want this little one to have a family name too but the only way one I can think of is my middle name which is unisex. My question is - would it be weird for a boy to share a name with his mum? It does actually sound quite nice with his chosen first name. I'm not sure why but I think it might be! Husbands name & great / grandfathers all used! Wish I hadn't given my first so many names now!!

Absolutely not weird! The only reason it doesn't happen more often is because [insert rant about patriarchal and homophobic societies - you know how this goes].

I think it's lovely idea. Congratulations.

Remember it doesn't have to be a person! My middle name is after the church my parents married in, I knew a boy at primary school who said his middle name was the town his parents met in. So things like that are always an option. I know lots of kids who's middle name is their mother's maiden name.

I don't think it would be weird for your name to be his middle name either. Wasn't chandler in Friends middle name Muriel? And he married Monica! She's a babe!

I'm joking but no, I don't think it's weird. I think it's lovely.

Lovely idea!

Thankyou everyone - I think we are definitely going to go with it Hope little one will like it too, but as my husband says no one has to use their middle names if he doesn't!

It’s fine but As long as the name is unisex!

Ours will have DH's surname as a middle name. We have seen it as a name but it's rarely used and usually a surname. It makes a nice unisex name.