My name as a middle name...

[ComeONBridget]

I have quite a rare first name.

Would it be strange to use it as my little girls middle name?

I really like my name and would like to include it... thoughts? Too selfie?

My ed has my name as her middle name and my ds has my dhs name as his middle name. My yd has a relatives first name as her middle name. It's not an unusual thing to do as far as I know.

My middle name is my mother’s name. All my kids have family’s names as middle names and my youngest has my maiden name. I don’t think it’s weird at all. It’s a lovely family tradition and a way of keeping family roots alive.

Men have no such qualms about naming their kids after themselves.

Give your daughter your name as a middle name if you want to - not too selfie!

Traditional in my family, my middle name is my mums first name, my mums middle name is her mums first name.

I skipped a generation, my DS has his grandads names as his middle names but no, I don't think it's weird

I think it's a nice idea.

My Mum has an Irish first name and my middle name is the English version of it. I like it.

No it’s normal

Unless you are called Verucca or something...

I think it's lovely. I really love my middle name so when I have a little girl she will also have this middle name!

One of my dds has my middle name as her middle name and the other has a diminutive of my dsis name as her middle, I think it's lovely

It's great! In fact I might do the opposite - my middle name is on our list for this baby. ☺️

I think it's a beautiful idea x

I’m named after my two great-grandmothers and I always loved the family connection. My DD’s middle name is my grandma’s name. If it’s a beautiful name then do it, she’ll love the connection to you.

I have my mum's name as a middle name, she had her mum's name as her first name. DS has DH's name as his middle, but DH is known by his middle name, while he and his dad share a first name!

By which I mean, it's not too selfie at all. It is a lovely tradition. Just don't do the same first name but call him by his middle name thing as DH has, cos that's a nightmare.

I think it's fine! My mum had her Dad's first name and her sister had their mum's first name. My son has my husband's first name as a middle name. And my other son's first name is his other grandmother's first name. Never any confusion except with my mum when they were young.

It's completely fine - in fact I'd even say it's commonplace. Loads of people I know have either their Parent or Grandparent's name for a middle name (I think traditionally that's what middle names were for - to honour relatives or close friends/godparents).

Lovely idea. I didn't have a girl, but if I had her middle name would've been the Irish version of my name.

I have my mum's name as my middle name, my daughter has my name as her middle name.

Go ahead and name after yourself

I like this idea!

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I think it's lovely. I really love my middle name so when I have a little girl she will also have this middle name!

DD has my middle name! It fit with hers and honours my mum, who hates her own name but loves the middle name she chose me (my first name is OK but a bit 80s and it wouldn’t go with DDs name anyway). Weirdly MIL would have also used it had she had a daughter so she liked it too.

DS has DH’s middle name - it’s a family name we both loved.

^^has my middle name as her middle name, I should have said

We always use a family name for the middle name. First two have grandfathers names and third guy has my husbands name. This is the first girl and unfortunately neither of the granny's have names we'd like to use and my husband suggested using my name. It felt v bizarre at first but it's so common place for men that I got over it quickly. No one knows the name choice yet so I'm sure my mother has notions of her name but.... tough! 😂 I'm the one who does all the work for these children, why not use my name!

Someone I know has a boy and a girl and the boy had his father’s name as his middle .. the girl doesn’t have her mother’s. I think it’s a shame women don’t do this more really, since men do it.

One of my daughters has my name as a middle name, I like my name and wanted to use it.

It's a lovely idea. Had we had a second daughter she would have been DD1s middle name/my first name as it was about the only combo we could agree on.

Go for it OP - I think it's a lovely!