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Middle names???

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Twinkie · 19/10/2004 15:32

Right DS will be called Max - Maximilion on Birth Certificate on DPs insistance - but we are disagreeing over middle names.

Need lots of ideas - last name is boring, one syllable and really common - next to Smith I think the most common in the UK!!

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sweetheart · 19/10/2004 16:02

Nathanial and Lucas - who's been watching too much One Tree Hill!!!!

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Twinkie · 19/10/2004 16:03

Whats One Tree Hill??

Theer is a hill/woodland type thing near where we live called that but not been there for years!!

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woodpops · 19/10/2004 16:06

I've always like Alfie but I think it's grown in popularity because of Alfie Moon!!!

snmum · 19/10/2004 16:06

my friends son is the same firsat name as yours and freddrica as a middle name

my ds is joseph as a middle name, it is usually something 'classic/traditional' so they can use when they are older if they so wish apparently. DD doesnt have a middle name even though i wanted her to have one

libb · 19/10/2004 16:06

Max Franklyn sounds excellent to me! it just has that ring . . .

SpringChicken · 19/10/2004 16:12

Mason
Kyle
William
Jack
Billy
Patrick
Finley
Keiron
Kian

Just thinking of as many boys names as i can.

To be completley honest thought i think Max *** sounds like a lovely name on it's own - very simple yet stylish and traditional!

sweetheart · 19/10/2004 16:15

One Tree Hill is a new programme on E4 - Nathanial and Lucas are the names of the 2 main characters. Get ready for a increase in those names

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Twinkie · 19/10/2004 16:15

Don't like modern names like Kyle and Alfie I am afraid!!

Think Franklyn is the leader with both of us now - he has been mailing me for the last hour discussing it!!

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snmum · 19/10/2004 16:18

I think max franklin sounds way too dramatic, sorry but if thats what you like, that is fine of coyrse it is

Twiglett · 19/10/2004 16:22

My sister once went out with a Max (though he was a Maxwell not a Maximillion) and my mum always called him Maxwell Allouicious (sp?)

woodpops · 19/10/2004 16:25

Max Franklin sounds ok but Maximilion Franklin doesn't. But then who are we to tell you what to name your ds. At the end of the day it's your choice.

zubb · 19/10/2004 16:37

frederick?
.. not sure why I just thought of that!

Hausfrau · 19/10/2004 19:40

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codswallop · 19/10/2004 19:42

isnt franklin a turtle?

codswallop · 19/10/2004 19:43

sorry , he is!

JanH · 19/10/2004 19:57

Aloysius, twiggy!

Twinkie, Max Lucas/Maximilian Lucas sounds good to me - though maybe with a multi-syllabic first name you should have a short sharp middle one (even though you also have a short sharp surname).

MInd you none of mine have middle names - it was so hard to agree on one each time we didn't push our luck

nutcracker · 19/10/2004 20:06

Oliver
Joseph
Jacob
Harry
Thomas

fisil · 19/10/2004 20:20

I know I'm a bit behind in this conversation: we had two poss middle names for ds - Stanley or George. We still hadn't decided. We discussed it through transistion - and decided on Stanley. We shorten his first name & add it to Stan - like you suggest - and it is one of our favourite middle names for him! My Grandad, Stan, cried when he heard ds' name. He died this summer and I was so grateful that we'd chosen that name.

stringbean · 19/10/2004 20:49

If your dp is insisting on Maximilian (sp?) as a first name, can you not insist on your choice of middle name to even things up a bit? I held out for middle names for ds and dd which came from my family, arguing that they get dh's surname (I've kept my maiden name, which I can see will get more complicated as they get older, but that's another thread). Incidentally, dd was born three weeks ago, and in the end we decided that neither of us liked the other's choice of names for her; we also felt that, on seeing her, they didn't really suit her either, so compromised and went for something entirely different (took us about a week to choose though). You never know, he might arrive and not look like a Max.

NotQuiteCockney · 19/10/2004 20:51

You don't have to just have one middle name. Everyone in my family has two, a first-name middle name, and a last-name one. The last-name is a family name. I think this is a family tradition my parents made up, but I've stuck with it. You get a second full name inside your first one.

Ds1 has "Henry Martin" as his middle names, while Ds2 has "Xavier Loban".

larlylou · 19/10/2004 20:52

My ds has two middle names - one 'Andrew' in memory of my dh brother and my maiden name.

Davros · 19/10/2004 21:49

Stanley is quite fashionable without being toooo popular, quite like it. Alfie is not modern is it? And the Jude Law remake of Alfie has just come out.... will be VERY popular methinks. I always think its sad when people don't have middle names, like their parents couldn't be bothered (or forgot in the case of my dad when he registered my middle sister)

linnet · 19/10/2004 21:56

Davros, I don't have a middle name because my parents decided that since most people never use their middle names there wasn't any point in having one.

My dd's don't have middle names either. I once asked people at work what there middle names (while trying to decide on dd2's name) were and most of them wouldn't tell me because they all didn't like their middle names.

acnebride · 19/10/2004 22:01

If Blair is out for political reasons, how about a hero your dp/you like?

Mahatma (no, come on, Maximilian Mahatma is fantastic)
Martin or Luther, or King! Like that one! Maximilian King!
Elvis
Ali
etc...

JoolsToo · 19/10/2004 22:03

Jones? Brown?

I LOVE Laurence but everyone in my family hates it!

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