Middle Name Dilemma - Honouring?

[PrincessTitan]

So my eldest son's name doesn't honour anyone.
Would it be odd to use a name to honour someone with my new baby?
There's a name my parents were going to call me, if I was a boy, so I would use that.
Or I would use Dawson - it means Son of David. Whilst the baby wouldn't be son of David, baby would grandson and great grandson of David. Its also linked to my favourite film, so has double meaning.
Or do I just pick something completely different?

I don't understand how choosing a name your mum and dad would have used for you is honouring someone? It's a name chosen for a son who doesn't exist?

Just pick a name you like 🤷🏻‍♀️

One of my kids has a parents name as middle name, one doesn't. I never gave it a thought tbh!

I think it’s fine to use a name to honour someone for one child but not the other. One of my children has an honour middle name, one has a middle name with an important meaning to me, and one has a middle name that I just loved how it sounded with the first name. I’ve told them all why they have the names they do and they all have special names for different reasons, and they all love their names.

@BodyKeepingScore You've completely missed the point. It's a name they loved and didn't get to use. They love it more than their own names for example so I'm doing something to honour them. I thought that was obvious.

Use it. He can be George Dawson Titan or whatever. Better than George Dilemma Titan.

We picked middle names honouring our folks. Eg DD1 named after both grannies. Honestly didn’t care about the middle names and it’s a good job as they aren’t great names! But think about how many people you actually know the middle names of. It took long enough to decide first names so I was happy to not think about middle ones too tbh. And seeing how happy it made our folks was priceless, I have to say.

Name your DC whatever you want and according to whatever criteria.

I do agree that your would be name isn’t honouringcreally though but if you love it why not?

@HoldingOnForAHeron Now you come to mention it... Dilemma is a brilliant middle name! Haha

I don't think that would be odd.
You chose your eldest son's name/names for a reason - because it was a name that you like, because you thought the name suited him well, etc.
Now you are choosing a name for the next child, and you are free to choose again, and if you want to honour someone, then you should do that.

I think both of your options are really lovely.
I, too, know what my name would have been If I were a boy. It's a nice name, and I think about it sometimes.
And Dawson is a lovely name, and it has a great meaning to you and to your family.

It's fine, don't overthink it. I like your reasoning for using it.

One can definitely honour someone without giving the child the exact name of that person.
I know a girl who is named in honour of her grandmother, but her name is not her grandmother's name - instead it's the name that her grandmother wished to have had her whole life! It's a cute story, and a special bond between grandmother and grandchild.

Eh ? Just choose a name. Really doesn't matter