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

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

I have 4 girld with not a Rose in sight .
However one of my dd's has the middle name Louise .

Retro

My dd's FIRST name is Rose.

I love it,only know one other and she's 2,dd is 16

My MIL is called May. If bump is a girl, please can I call her after her granny?

BTW my niece's (4) middle name is Rose after my/my sister's granny! We could have a whole filler generation!

My middle name is Mary and when my MW asked what DD's middle name was I told her it was the same middle name as my Mum, mine and mother in law's middle name she said well it has to be Mary then or Anne. I laughed my sister's middle name was Anne. So I am continuing the trend for very common middle names with my daughter's middle names Mary for DD1 and Rose for DD2. In my defence they both have beautiful, original and not made up first names but obviously I had run out of steam by their middle names.

If I had a girl it would have been Eleanor Rose

And my middle name is May (was born 1980)

Am I a walking cliche?

Rose was going to be Ds1's first name about 6 years ago when it wasn't very common...then it sort of got a foothold and I went off it.
It's a lovely name but I know so many now and can't deal with not being different, am a snob so won't allow myself to use it!

I liked Ursula for ds2 and didn't know any - till my sister, said, 'Oh how lovely, my friends just called their baby that!'

I could have screamed.
Luckily he was a boy

marie also another well used middle name in the 80's

Am a sucker for it all I have an emma rose

Sorry an Emma Rose

I was going to say Louise in the 80s - mine is Louise. However my daughter (if she is a daughter) will be XXXX Rose and I don't care.

I was just laughing at this in the local birth announcements this morning - every middle name was grace or rose and most of the girls were called Isabelle grace or Grace Isabelle.

Newborn DD3 has Grace as one of her middle names but in my defence it is a family name

Don't have a Rose though out of 3 girls

Rose is a lovely name at the moment but in 20 years' time it is going to sound as dated as Donna, Karen, Debbie and Marie which probably sounded very pretty originally. Unfortunately, once a name becomes very popular it does lose it's appeal and starts to sound boring and outdated.

My middle name is Jane... was a child of the (late) 70's. Although to be fair. I was the 6th child, and maybe they were running short on ideas.

Im an 80's girl wit Louise a a middle name

DH keeps suggesting 'Rose' as a middle name for our Lydia,

no!

When I was at school, most of the boys had Lee as a middle name... is there an equivilent (sp?) now for boys... just incase I ever talk DH into another

dd has Mae as a middle name (not a conjoined first name) after my grandma.
i rather regret it now, having seen so many sniffy comments about it on MN. which is a shame, really, as it was supposed to be a tribute to a lovely woman...

Elizabeth and Jane were def common middle names in the 70's(mine and my sister), and just to make things worse we have 2 of the commonest first names to go with them!

Agree about Grace and Rose, but i still like them.

oh god yes, practically every family i know has a DD with middle name "Rose"

It is a really lovely first name imo, but getting a bit passe on the middle name stakes now

DillyTanty, don't be disheartened just because a few Mumsnetters sniff at a name, Mae is a beautiful name, had Mumsnet been around in the 70's, we would have had the same type of threads over Jane/Elizabeth etc. Nothing wrong with those names now is there?

Fashion dictates but what happens is that nice names are used, not nice ones aren't. Hence they become popular. I have a Grace Elisabeth, I know of 2 others. So what? Not the end of the world. I am not a "chav", I live in a very nice suburb and don't stand on street corners with my children in a pink stroller and my pitbull on a lead. That is what some Mumsnetters seem to think we who chose popular names are like.

Some people are such snobs on Mumsnet.

it's the pass-remarkability that boggles my mind... if someone had asked for an opinion, maybe... but it's not, it's just a pile-on. some people on MN are idiots.

I was born in mid-70s and haven't got a middle name . I was so miffed I invented one, and even had a ring engraved with my "new" initials. The invented middle name? Elizabeth.

I think I can confidently say that noone on Mumsnet will have children with the same middle names as my two have

middle names are the opportunity to indulge youself and be unusual IMO.

never get used really do they anyway. mine is Claire and I was born in 1974...

How funny MonkeyMargot! I wanted to be called Samantha when I was growing up. My middle name too is Elisabeth, I love it as a name, that is why I chose it for my DD, it is my mum's middle name as well. I even considered it as DD2's name but went off the idea.

DillyTanty, would you have had doubts over your DD's middle name if you didn't come on Mumsnet? I doubt it, no-one would even care/comment in real life. I am of the belief that if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all. If someone wants to call their child Joe Bloggs, their choice! I won't start a thread about it and say how common it is.

Please tell MrsJohnCusack, you can't tease us like that!