Adding middle names

[brads88]

Has anyone else ever added a middle name after the baby has been registered? (For whatever reason...after a few months/ year or so? I know the rules are different over 1 year old!)

I almost did. I really wanted a specific second middle name for my DD but my OH argued against it. Anyway I was all emotional a few weeks after the birth and convinced him to let me cause I was so upset he said no.

I then decided against it myself, as when it comes to filling in forms it would be a bit of a faff. I just decided it probably wasn't worth it. I absolutely adore her first and second name anyway and picked them both out so it was happy enough!

Just to be clear, I meant it would be a faff filling in forms for my DD if she had such a long name.

I did! Just before the cut off point. We had to get a form from the registry office and pay a fee (about £40 from memory). It was pretty straight forward

It is £40.. Well it was last year when I looked into in anyway!

My parents did this - added one name at some point after registering my birth, then another at some point. These were written in hand on my christening cert or something but no formal paperwork. I used the entire name quite happily for 40 yrs, inc. on my passport, and then discovered that it's not actually my legal identity .

@LostInTheColonies how funny! Were you happy with all your given/ unofficial names?!

I love reading other peoples experiences of this - makes me feel like I'm not alone! I love birth of my children's first & middle names but my husband and I have sort of agreed no more babies so I'm sad I'm not going to get to use those names that are special to me (that we would have used if we had two of the same gender). I feel like including them in my current childrens' names will help connect them to my heritage... one of them is over a year old so I would have to do it by deed poll, but the other is only a few months old so I think would be relatively easy to do.

@brads88 I wasn't very keen on the first one they added when I was little because I was teased (a surname, to appease DGM; the second addition was to soften it a bit because even my parents felt sorry for me). I think it's pretty funny that I legally obtained & used official documents for years without knowing!

Had a luckier escape than DBro though as he also ended up with a string of middle names that DF made up on the spur of the moment. Conversation between parents, DM in a flap shortly post-partum:
DM: "What shall we call him?"
DF: (thinks) Why is she asking? We've already decided. Made up the names.
DM thought he was serious and registered the whole lot. One is similar to McTavish. DBro, who has a lovely and indulgent wife, has since given the same ridiculous middle name to his sons.