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Do you think 2 middle names is too many when baby has 2 last names?

30 replies

cds5163 · 11/10/2021 06:24

I'm 4 days until my scheduled c section and I keep changing the name. I've never been so indecisive about naming babies before but then again I had other input. This time I decided not to tell anyone and name baby on my own. All of a sudden I think I want to name baby girl Halle. Last week it was Mya and for the rest of my pregnancy it was ilah/Isla but I think Nayeli is the middle name.
Anyway her last name is hyphened because of husbands culture. So is Halle (Mya/Ilah?) Nayeli (last name-last name) too much? Hopefully that made sense.

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Djifunrsn · 11/10/2021 10:23

There is a lot to be said for keeping things simple.

Choose the first name that you like the best and that she will use.

One middle name only, because that is standard/ordinary.

Surname.

No need to over complicate or over do it. If in doubt, go basic!

FindingMeno · 11/10/2021 10:24

Not too much and I love it particularly Nayeli

TakeYourFinalPosition · 11/10/2021 10:25

Yeah; as someone with a long name, don’t do it to them. Choose one of the middle names. If you’re set on Nayeli has the middle name; which is lovely, choose between the two first names, and don’t add the one you don’t chose as a middle name.

My name is a few letters short of your suggested name, and it’s a pain officially. Even with electronic forms.

35andThriving · 12/10/2021 13:08

You might be interested to know that any more than one middle name won't show up on a UK driving license. Any more than one middle name and the others just get reduced to initials. Not that it really matters. I just didn't realise that until recently.

Mymapuddlington · 12/10/2021 13:12

If it’s two middle names and one first name that’s ok I think.
Sarah Marie Rhia Cuthbert-Jones

I know someone who gives her kids ridiculous hyphenated names, middle names and the last name is hyphenated too, they’re all really long, like Evangelina-Persephone Hortensia Petunia Bartholomew-Jacobson so as long as you’re not planning that I think it’s fine!

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