reusing your dd1's middle name as dd2 or 3's first name.

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if you like it so much but it is never used would/could this ever be possible? Or just wierd, stupid and inconsiderate. Your thoughts please.....

dont see why not but i liked so many names that we never had too egts my thumbs up if it helps

Not weird, stupid or inconsiderate.

I would do so although dts have middle names I wouldn't use again.

We nearly did it. Decided not to becasue I was determined to find another girls name I liked but would have gone for it. Real reason I didn't was I didn't love DD1's middle name quite enough for it to be her first name so ... but nothing wrong with doing it if it's a name you lvoe and suits the new baby.

I have a cousin called David; his twin had a son called David - so to distinguish we used to call the younger David by his full name of David Stephen; then they had another son and called him Stephen!
We all thought it very odd (and not a bit confusing - David - David Stephen - Stephen....)
I agree with TC really, if you didn;t like it enough to make it DS1's first name why would it do for DS2?

thers the other side of the coin that it was one of your favourite names so had it as the middle name.. iyswim
my son toby-jack's middle name is morgan. if he had been a girl she would have been called morgan (was my brothers middle name) and if i have a girl in the future and future dp likes morgan for a girl i wouldp robably choose it again.

thers the other side of the coin that it was one of your favourite names so had it as the middle name.. iyswim
my son toby-jack's middle name is morgan. if he had been a girl she would have been called morgan (was my brothers middle name) and if i have a girl in the future and future dp likes morgan for a girl i wouldp robably choose it again.

that's interesting to know - I think you can love a name yet choose not to use it for a first

would seem strange to me - can't see why you would want to give children same names.

Incidentally i knew an old man who had 2 brothers called Donald (first names)!

dp's bro1's middle name is the same as his bro3's first name.

It is a family name - they have an uncle on each side with that name - so pretty confusing re bro3 and the uncles, which is worse than it being bro1's middle name too.

anyway, imho it's fine and not confusing, but looks a bit unimaginative if it's just a name you like, not a name you've got a particular reason to give iyswim.

I would find it odd and if I was the child it would be a bone of contention, tbh.

I wouldnt personally, but the middle names my girls have, I wouldnt use as first names (Jessica Helen and Rebecca Alison)

They go nicely with their names - and they are THEIR names.

Next baby will have its own name too!

I did it. Ds2 has ds1's middle name as his first name. We did it again with ds3 who has ds2's middle name as his first name!

I'm afraid there are very few boys names that I like and we seriously lacked imagination when it came to choosing!

It's not a big issue. How many people know your middle name anyway? Where it comes up, it's a talking point and people laugh about it but does it really matter at the end of the day? At least I got 3 first names that I like!

It wasn't that I didn't like the name that it was used as a middle one initially.

With ds1, I would have used his middle name as his first one but I was choosing the girls name so dh was choosing the boys name. Since we had a boy, he got his choice and we used my choice as middle name - not really thinking ahead to the possibility of having another boy, or even 3!

With ds2, I decided I really wanted my all time favourite name and the only other name we both liked, coupled with our surname, would be the name of a very well known singer. So we went with my name and the famous singer name as the middle one.

With ds3, I was just bloody exasperated. We'd struggled enough with boys names for two children so we thought, 'who cares if he's got a famous name, it's the only name we like' so we went for it. He has completely different middle names to anyone else

Does get more difficult if you are struggling adn you keep having children of the same gender! I didn't not want to use my favourite names first time, or second time round because you might not get a chance to use them again!

I don't see why the children would be offended by it at all - is it really that big a deal?!

My son no 2's 'first' name is the same as Son no 1's 'middle' name.

No probs 'so far' - they are 5 and 8. Infact, i think its rather nice.

depends what you use for a middle name I spose.

we figured that as no-one knows anyone's middle name after the birth announcement, there's no point giving a random name that you just happen to like.

So ds's middle name is my dad's name, which I wouldn't give as a first name even if it wasn't my dad's iyswim. If we have another boy, he'll have either dp's dad's name or dp's grandad's name as a middle name.

DS1 has my maiden name as middle name (had no brothers to carry it on)

DS2 has DH's first name as middle name (same as grandpa's)

DS3 has my father's first name as middle name.

DD1 got 2 names we liked. Didn't get either grandmother's name as we didn't like them particularly!

might dd1 feel jealous of dd2 for nicking 'her' name?

My nieces (now grown up) have 2 names between them. Their mother just swapped dn1's names around and gave them to dn2.I used to think it was a bit wierd but...
They like it..and have always liked it i think

I don't find it strange at all, I posted on a thread like this a while ago.

my mums name is mary, her two sisiters are Mary Anne and agnes mary. she had 6 brothers two of which were named Alister (first names) and most with some sort of variation on the same few names lol

A hebridean thing I suspect, their names all soun different when spoken in gaelic.

DH has suggested using DD's middle name for first name if we have another DD - just cos he does'nt like anything else we have found so far.
The whole reason she had it as a middle name was just in case we did'ntn have another girl and did'nt get the chance to use it.

I dont think it's weird, or stupid or inconsiderate etc - but I hate to think that we can't find something else we both like - after all there are thousands of names out there.

when ds1 was born we called him chris after his dad,grandad etc
for his middle name i liked isaac but dh didnt so we chose Ryan as its irish

ds2 was born and we called him Isaac for 2 days dh still didnt like it so we called him James (after my dad) still dh didnt like it
we then called him
alex
rory
damien
thomas

after 28 days on the way to reg ds2 we were still deciding in the end in front of reg we decided on Ryan James

Ryan now 9 likes his name as he feels Chris has a name that follows so does he

The reason I'm asking is that I've grown to love my dd1's middle name (Violet ) so much - at her birth, I wasn't so sure and just thought she suited her first name better and the two seemed to flow together well. I didn't know whether I would have another daughter so decided just to go for that as a middle name...now Violet is my all time favourite name, annoyingly, and can't seem to find another I like quite as much.

how old is your dd1?
Is it likely to bother her?
could you use Violet for a first name and let dd1 choose the second name?
or Swap dd1's names over to give to dd2?...(a little odd maybe...but it might work for you)

i know lots of people who use their middle names as their main name