Hot take: Middle names?

My daughter has 2 middle names. I don’t generally use them often, but one of her names is after my grandmother who passed before she was born and the other name is after name that starts with Z like mine. They both have meaning to me, Pearl so she knows where her lineage comes from and Zenith means the highest point of something and she’s definitely a high point in my life

When my kids don’t listen when I call them by their names I call them by their middle names and they seem to listen lol

My kids have my maiden name as their middle name. They all have the same one. My parents called me by my first and middle name when I was in trouble. 😂

Unrelated to my son, but my fiancé actually goes by his legal middle name & has done since he was a child. So they can be useful, haha

The middle name is for when they’re in trouble 😌😂😂 But on a serious note, my first has a middle name after my favourite flower, and my second has his dad’s grandad name because they were very close Me and her dad don’t have middle name

Middle names are really just a way to honor family members. I didn't have a middle name until I was adopted. My name was CarolAnn last name. But when I was adopted, they switched it to be Carol Ann last name for my adoptive mom since her name was AnnLuJean My daughters middle name plays tribute to my grandpa, who died six months before she was born his name was Raymond, and he went by Ray. So my daughters middle name is Raye to honor him. My sons middle name is Reid to match his dad and my fil. Whose name is Kendall Reid, but he goes by Reid instead, and my fiance name is Ethan Reid. To keep the name Reid in the family.

Here's an article about the history of middle names, super interesting stuff https://time.com/4451977/history-of-middle-names/

my baby’s middle name is a tribute to her grandmother

I never gave my daughter a middle name. I took me soo long to think of a first name that I couldn’t be bothered with middle one x

My son has a middle name and my in laws use the first and my side use the middle. We have his middle name after a relative of mine so my side calls him Jr sometimes. I have 2 which no one uses. My husband has a middle name and my in laws use it when they're upset with him.

No clue tbh haha. My son’s middle name is after my grandfather, & we only use it rarely. I think it’s nice to get to choose 2 names you like though

I gave both my daughters a middle name to honor family members and just because I thought it sounded nice lol. The middle names are also names I was thinking of using as first names so if I use them as middle names I get to use both hehe

Because I liked the names and they will have a choice in the future to choose one of those instead of their first name if they want to.

My daughter's middle name is to honour my great grandmother from Latvia, as she was someone I really admired and it's a beautiful name. My own middle name I have used as my first name since I was about 10yrs old.

I was always planning on giving my daughter a middle name. My daughter’s middle name is to honour my little sister. I have two middle names which don’t get used often. All of my siblings have middle names so it’s normal for me

They both have middle names an my parents call our oldest by his middle name

Middle names lower the risk of identity theft and can be used as a way of honoring family traditions. It’s also just helpful considering how many names are repeated. For example, my first and last name is Taylor Aiello and there are lots of Taylor Aiellos in my home state. Thanks to our middle names, legal documents are separated. I have met several girls named Breanna Gomez (in high school) and to differentiate them from one another, they went by their first and middle names in the school setting. I know a man named Matthew Jordan (first and middle name) yet he’s always gone by Jordan simply because he doesn’t like his first name. There are many reasons to give children a middle name.

My daughter has got 2 middle name we don’t use them but they are after my grandmother and my partner grandmother who passed away just before our daughter was born. It is also kind of a tradition in my family to put at least one middle name.

My son has two middle names, Noé-Lee. Noé was my husbands uncle who unfortunately passed away 3 months before our son was born so we wanted to honor him by doing that and then Lee comes from my family, it's my father's middle name and I wanted something of my family in the name. For my 2nd child they will have a middle name also it will be Jules since im having a boy, but that is to honor my grandmother(Julie) who passed away from cancer also and she was my biggest supporter so I want to honor her as well.

I think it also helps when parents can't agree, I wanted to name my daughter after my grandmother so my husband chose her middle name and I said he can name the second and I chose his middle name. Fair is fair lol

My little girl has two middle names, they’re her grandmothers. Theyre very important to me and both quite old and unwell, she won’t remember them so it’s a way to remember them for me and her more than anything. My own middle name is simply a name my aunt picked, she never had children and never wanted to so it was a nice way to get to name a baby 😂

My husband and I have different last names, and my daughter has my last name as her middle name. I wanted her to have my name. We’re also an international couple and if anything weird happens with immigration or while traveling I want us to both have a shared name with our daughter.

My baby has a double barrelled first name so we don’t use her middle name. However, we probably would if her first name wasn’t double barrelled.

My son has 2 middle names. His first isn't common in my husband's country so it's harder for them to say. They use his first middle name more. Our daughter will also have 2 middle names, I just don't know which one my inlaws will use because none of them are easy in their language. She'll probably just get initialled like other members of the family.

It can definitely be used to honor a loved one. Or to make your mil happy. From what I understand in the southern United States they tend to use first and middle name as someone's name regularly. That is definitely not universal. I grew up with middle names being something brought up as like a fun fact. But middle names are also useful for security purposes. Usually for official paperwork versus daily use where it's just a an initial or dropped completely.

My daughters names are very sentimental. Her first name is my great grand mother's name, and her middle name is my grandmother's name. I figure her last name would change one day, and women don't usually pass down the women's names like we do with surnames, so my way of naming her was that.

So she has a word to use for her email password later in life 😂