Using the same name for two children?

[HelloWorld2577]

Hello!

So with my son if he was a girl he would've been Aurora. However, he was not so the nickname I'd always loved and envisioned using for Aurora was Rory. I gave my son the middle name of Rory as should I not have another child I wanted it in there somewhere!

...I am now pregnant with a baby girl and I still love the name Aurora however due to wanting to use the nickname Rory I'm apprehensive about using the name Aurora as I think it's a bit weird using effectively my sons middle name for my girls first name. It is however a name I've been in love with for 6 years and my partner still wants to use the name Aurora and we can't seem to agree on any other names!

HELP!

I know of a 6 year old Aurora man Rory. It’s great, go for it!

I once knew a Catholic family of five girls (and a couple of boys). All five had the middle name Mary, I don't think it's weird.

It's not that uncommon OP - go for it!

In know brothers named Jacob Andrew and Andrew Jacob🤷‍♀️

Sorry I think that's awful. Naming your little girl Aurora is lovely but calling her by her brothers middle name is awful. Makes no difference if its Rory or Steve it's your sons name. You wouldn't call your son Sophie if that's your daughters middle name.

They're different names!!

Well, it's good enough for the royal family.

I’d be tempted to give her a middle name that somehow linked to whatever his first name is... so it’s a symmetrical/double link. I think that might help with anybody feeling bad later.

But overall I think it’s fine anyway - it’s amazing how nobody knows or cares re middle names after the first couple of days!

No one mentioned George foreman yet? He named all five of his sons George. For their first name!

Think it’s lovely!

@vampirethriller

My grandad was one of 12, all called Gordon. Even the girls. So I think you're fine!

That’s bonkers! I know a family where all the boys are called Charles, and they have so mad system of who is Charles, Charlie, Chas, uses their middle name… they all live in the same town too!

It used to be incredibly common for families to reuse first name as middle names. I think it's fine. Aurora nn rory is beautiful.

It's also not weird to decide what your child will be called day to day. My dc is called Rosalie nn Rosa. We decided before she was born we wanted to call her Rosa rather than Rosie and that's always been what she's known as she's now 11. Never been an issue.

I know several families where a middle name has been used for a subsequent child’s first name.

We have an Aurora in our family and I would have used it, if it hadn’t already been ‘reserved’. It is not abbreviated - as we also had a rather unpleasant Rory.

No I think it’s fine-go for it

My granddaughter is Aurora. We use Rora which is far more feminine than Rory. Might this be a solution?

My middle name is my sister's name although that's because she died before I was born, however I don't think it matters

My youngest brother's first name is my other brother's middle name.

@Lindtnotlint

I’d be tempted to give her a middle name that somehow linked to whatever his first name is... so it’s a symmetrical/double link. I think that might help with anybody feeling bad later.

But overall I think it’s fine anyway - it’s amazing how nobody knows or cares re middle names after the first couple of days!

This is a really smart and lovely idea!

Lovely names OP. Go for it.

Congratulations!!

don't see the problem, middle names are usually fillers anyway and he is not called Rory so the name isn't being used.

go for it

Absolutely your call, but I think Rory is terrible and "try hard" for a girl. Nn or otherwise.

I'd think about how your daughter will feel when she's a cool teenager with the name of a Disney Princess.

I don't understand the obsession with middle names either, I don't have one but my understanding was that a middle name was usually a family connection (so often reused within a family) or used to differentiate 2 children with the same first name in a class for example Sarah Jane or Sarah Louise, but I'm 57. If a person really dislikes the name chosen by their parents they can change by deed poll anyway. There could be an awful lot of confusion in the future when every woman calls herself Mae 😉

We have this in my family with grandparents names, so first child has both grandparents name as first and middle then next child has first child's middle as first.
I don't think its that uncommon but think a pps idea to tie her middle name to your DS's first is a good idea.
So if he is James she could be Aurora Jamie/Jemima/Jemma.