The number of girls with middle name Rose has now reached critical mass and the World is going to explode in five minutes.

[CuckooClockWorkOrange]

You can use it as a first name. That's all. Thank you.

Rose is such a lovely name in it's own right. I don't understand why everyone shoves it away as a middle name. It's not as bad as May/Mae, though. No more, please!

dd has middle name Rose after late aunt, but if I'd had any idea... Honestly, how is anyone supposed to know these things BEFORE having children? It's only when you visit your first mother and baby group that the horrible truth emerges. They should hand out warning leaflets in antenatal clinics: "Do not name your child Scarlet, Ruby, Mia or Lily. Do not give your child the middle name Rose. You think you are being cutely original but you are simply joining a teeming horde."

I still think grace beats rose as a middle name
ella grace
lola grace
chloe grace

aurghghghghghghghgh

Grace is over used, yes. But I repeat - May/Mae is the worse offender!

Olivia Mae
Amelia May
Emily May
Evie-May
Gracie-Mae

arghhhhhhhhhhhhh

I was going to say the same as PPH.

it is all these people obsessed with single syllable middle names? why? my dd2s middle names have 7 syllables between them (there are only 2) and she seems to survive

lol at Louise in the 80's. That's my middle name (though child of the 70's).

WHAT is with the spelling of Mae. What is wrong with MAY fgs. Why spell it lick that. Why? I hate it hate it hate it.

(You can tell I have given this some thought)

what is this fetish about middle names? In my day (dinosaurs roamed the earth) nobody knew anyone's middle name and I'm absolutely certain that nobody though of joining them together in a bastard first name or tortured themselves by wondering how well they went together. Instead they just thought, 'oh it will please aunty Joan if we call her Susan Joan so Susan Joan it is' So much simpler. We all had ghastly middle names, or it was Ann. Or Mary for the catholics.

lick eh? I meant like

Apparently both my names are 'filler' names. According to that other thread my name doesn't date, according to this one I have two 70s filler names. Am so confused.

Nobody ever names their child after their Grandmother Doris though, do they/

pmsl at this thread!

Marie was quite an 80's middle name too.

It's not whatevery the middle name is itself that bothers me......it's when it's hyphonated

haha, I saw the thread title, and thought 'DEFINITELY, but also include May/Mae and Grace' - and there they are!

My DD's middle name is Boo, if I'm sat here on mumsnet in 20 years time and see postings of "tut, Boo is such a 2000's middle name" I may have to have a tantrum!!

I think you're safe.

I know of a girl (she's about six) and her first name is Boogie. I kid you not.

Yes Grace, Rose and May are def the middle names of our times.

Mine OTOH is Natasha so hopefully passes PPH's syllable test. Esp. when it is combined with a 4 syllable first name.

You're right, cuckoo, I'm so bored of Rose as the middle name

Mine is Jane, but without the Y thank God. I'd be so bloody embarrassed if my parents hd put a Y in it.

well DD has grace as a middle name.

sadly it was due to Edp, he wanted it as a first name and i said no but relented and allowed it as a middle name. it was his great gran's name apparantly.

couldn't agree more!
My sister and I are 70's children and therefore have Anne and Elizabeth after both grandmothers so is Rose and Mae the first name of a lot of new grans I wonder? Or is it Just easy to have a short middle name so it fits on the miniscule space on forms? I think I might be thinking about this too deeply, I really should get my life back!!

I put the Y in my Jane, when I was 11 in 1983 in the grip of medal winning ice skating fever (Torvill). It's stuck ever since and I'd never change it. So ner!

Oh FFS

my middle name is May (after a greta aunt)

and dd has two middle names, bet you can;t guess what one of them is?

Gowaaaaan...........

Rose, yes!