Two children with different heritage names? Different numbers of middle names?

[sahra1234]

Has anyone in a mixed nationality/religion couple given baby one and two names from the other culture? Or given one more middle names than the other? Half of us is from a Muslim background, the other Christian. Did you find they were treated differently in any way? Or questions asked?

Try to find names that are acceptable to both sides of the family. Also nice to include a family name after a loving grandparent.
Ayesha
Zara
Isaac
David
Adam

My friend’s kids have Nigerian first names and Scottish surnames. So both mixed but both the same pattern.

No one takes any notice of middle names, do they?

Though my cousins quarter-Japanese kids each have a Japanese middle name in between standard UK first and surnames

Similar issue over here! British / Muslim household (husband is half British though so saves a battle!). To be honest, we just found names we liked and that was that. We had a girl and gave her a name that we just liked (Sophie) and her middle name is my name (just like if we had a boy, it would have been her dad's name). My argument was that her last name is her Dad's name - that carried the heritage / culture etc.

Just go with names that you and your partner like and don't tell anyone until their born! (And that's advice I'd give to anyone naming any of their babies - everyone always has an opinion, but it really doesn't have anything to do with anyone else!).

We didn't tell anyone about the names we liked the sound of, baby was born and we text everyone to say here's her name and that was that! They could have their reactions in private but the most important thing was that we loved the name.

Agree with PP I would try and give them names that work in both cultures. My sibling and I are a Christian/ Muslim mix and this is what our parents did, except I have two middle names and my sibling has none which has always greatly irritated them.

IME the children will go through a stage where they don’t like being different from peers (which is no reason at all not to give them a name reflecting their heritage, but it will happen) and I’ve found it helpful that both of mine have ethnic names. There would have been resentment if one had and one hadn’t.

Yes I know a number of families who have given siblings names from different aspects of their heritage - e.g. a Greek name for one child and Indian for the other, or Arabic for one child and Welsh for the other. Lots of one Welsh and one English named siblings too.

I know someone who just nearly got prevented from taking an exam because the 2 middle names wouldn't fit in some box and therefore their info didn't exactly match the ID. Use names acceptable to both cultures. Too many names can cause problems. First name, middle name, surname.