Socrates as a middle name??

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Help! My husband is Greek and his father is called Socrates. It is greek tradition to name the first born son after the paternal grandfather. I have vetoed this and have compromised with it as a middle name, but still have huge reservations about using it 😑
Is it as bad as I think it is?

I have no idea what my friends’ middle names are, let alone colleagues etc. I really don’t think it will matter.

Sounds like a good compromise to me, I don’t see the point of middle names for the sake of them as they’re never used, but when they have family or similar meaning then they’re not as pointless.

I think it's cool as a middle name.

If it's a family thing then it's cool. If he was from Wolverhampton and ended up working as a mechanic it might seem harder to explain.

Love it!

When I read your title OP my first thought was NO, but reading the context made me look at it entirely differently, so as a middle name I think it's an ok compromise.

Both of my children have their grandparents names as middle names and as we all know they are seldom used, or known by other people.

I think it’s brilliant.

It’s fine.

No one uses middle names anyway. And it’s interesting!

Until you getting married and you have to say your full name! My husband's middle name is rather funny and very very old school. When we got married and had to repeat our names out loud, everyone had a giggle 🤭 no one knew his middle name until that day.

Haha. It's cool.

He may decide it's embarrassing later and drop it, but middle names are used so rarely I wouldn't worry about it.

It sounds like a good compromise to keep a family tradition alive, and connect your son to his father's culture. Or is that what the problem is?

I love it as a first name!

It’s great! Crack on. A colleague of mine gave his son the middle name Apollo for similar reasons.

This is the only reason why i'm willing to compromise by using it to be honest. I know it means a lot to my husband and i'm hoping our son will feel more connected to his Greek roots as a result

I think it's great as a middle name and lovely to honour your husbands family and heritage!

I know why … it’s too similar to ‘scrotal’ - nearly an anagram 🤢

My son has 6 middle names to placate the whole family - first boy born into the family in a long while 😵‍💫

We don’t use any of them - they’re on the birth certificate only. Even his passport misses a chunk of them out and replaces with ‘…’

If you go ahead with it, I’d compromise by agreeing to never have it on anything school related - or go my route and add multi - names (better ones) before it. The only issue is passport photo renewal - have to write in miniature with a fine tipped pen.

Add in Horatio and Lancelot, all good 😄

It’s fabulous. He can play, guess my middle name in drunken games at university.

I'm Greek too and I concur it's a fantastic name!

Love it!

I think it is ace as a middle name, given that your DS is half Greek.

It might have been a bit much if you did it from a love of philosophy, but with the clear family reason for doing it, the philosophical associations seem v v positive.

Even if Socrates himself was not always admirable, the Socratic method is pretty lovely and humane.

Great as middle name with Greek ancestry. Go for it.

I love a funky middle name and Socrates is definitely up there. Please go for it!

I prefer Aristotle

I know why … it’s too similar to ‘scrotal’ - nearly an anagram

Wtf? 😂

It’s a great name, op. I love how Greeks still use names we associate with antiquity- I have a Greek friend named Menelaus, which I also love.

I know why … it’s too similar to ‘scrotal’ - nearly an anagram

I expected someone to mention Bill & Ted, but I forgot just how batshit MN can be so we get this instead! 😂