First of all, yes, if our baby is a boy we love the name Freddie as a full first name - I have seen far too many forums saying it is awful that people are using the 'nickname' for Frederick and not Frederick itself. In this day and age, Freddie is also classed as a full first name.
Now for our big decision! We know that we want Freddie if our baby is a boy, however we can't for the life of us agree on a middle name. The most commonly suited middle names that come up on the internet for Freddie are unusable for us. Without giving too much personal info away, David, George and James are already VERY closely and heavily used and related to us (James being the baby's surname so a definite no for a middle name).
I like Freddie William, as William was my Grandad's middle name and our other son has his first name. DH isn't keen though.
I also like Freddie Noah, as Noah was a name that we liked for our first born but didn't use. DH thinks that Noah is overly used now.
DH likes Freddie Theodore, which is probably the closest we have become to agreeing on a middle name, but part of me feels that Theodore is too long for a middle name.
I also love names that mean something to us as a family but we don't have many men in the family, other than my Grandad whose first name we used on our eldest, who we would dedicate a name to.
My Grandma has done and still does a lot for us, she is called Elsa. I have been trying to think of boy middle names that we like that are similar to Elsa, but none of them really suit us or Freddie.
We are fully set for if the baby is a girl, we are just struggling with a boy and find out the gender on Wednesday so I would love to have a more secure idea for both genders by Wednesday (although realistically we still have another 20 weeks to fully decide if the baby is a boy).
We all have middle names in our family and I wouldn't want this little one being the odd one out. X