My friend has just given her new baby girl the middle name....

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

Douglas!

Is it just me, or is this a boy's name?

[NKF]

It could be a surname used as a middle name. Scottish people do that quite a bit so perhaps it's that.

[fishie]

yup my granny's middle name was macpherson. but she had a betty in there too, lots of names!

[BellaDonna79]

My poor mother's first name is, wait for it McDougall... My grandmother is a slightly odd woman, luckily at 5 she made the decision to tell her teacher that all her family called her by her middle name, Morvyn, whcih while still pretty bad is a HELL of a lot better than Mc fucking Dougall!

[twelveyeargap]

In parts of Ireland, it's traditional for children to get their mother's first name as a middle name. I knew a Paul Mary.

[calzone]

A good female friend of mine is called Ross Joseph.

Her mum wanted a boy!

[chipmonkey]

twelveyeargap, my Dad remembered teasing the boy next door shouting "Brian Mary Carthy, neh neh neh-neh neh!"

[ComeOVeneer]

Dh's (female) cousin's middle name is Timothy, after her uncle who died of leukemia the month before she was born. She was embarrsed about it as a young child but as she got older she is now very proud of it.

[Bucky2008]

origins of douglas

Douglas was indeed a girl's name first.

[pointydog]

Morvyn's an odd spelling but I love the name Morven

[sabaidii]

I knw a little girl called Abigail Michael. Her mum didn't think she would be able to have another child. She did have a second girl and called her Madeleine John. She thought if she gave Abby a boy's name, then she should do the same for the second one.