Does your baby have a middle name (UK)?

My parents did something a bit different. My mum had one middle name, Frances, my dad has two.
In my mum’s family, the first born child is given a middle name Francis/Frances - so I’m the 5th generation and my daughter is 6th. But we also use the name of a relative as a middle name, so I am named Frances and then Joy after my grandmother. My daughter is named Ivy Alison Frances for my mother (Alison Frances was also my mother’s first and middle name).
My sister was given middle names Elizabeth Anne for our auntie, who is also first name Elizabeth, middle name Anne.
I think it’s a tradition but it’s also a nice way to acknowledge special family members. If I have another girl, I’m planning to give her Rachel Sara after my MIL, or Mark Nicholas for both our dads if it’s a boy

Yeah, my girls middle name was going to be her first name! Sunday 🫶🏻

In my culture, we have middle names always after the father, but I like the tradition in the UK to choose any name that means something to you. We used the name of my grandmother as a middle name, and that way, our daughter has something from my family but also something Bulgarian (the name is Vyara, which in Bulgarian means faith, and her first and last name are British).

Planning on a similar approach with a second child.

That being said, I also know a lot of people who just went for something that sounds good or skipped it all together, so just go with what you feel like.

Similar to above post, the childs middle name is fathers first name which is tradition in my culture and we quite like it

Both my girls have two middle names as do I.

One has Elizabeth Grace as her middle names - Elizabeth which I also have and Grace after her 2x Great Grandma which my own Grandma before she died asked me if I would do if I ever had a daughter.

My youngest has Victoria Rose in the middle. Victoria to honour my Grandad Victor and Rose after my other Grandma whose middle name was Rosemary.

It is a coincidence that they each have a Queens name in there! It was important to me that the names were meaningful. Their first names though are their own.

Me and my brother and our cousins have middle names after people in our family and so does my daughter. It’s either the exact name or a version of it. Me and my daughter are the only ones with a version of the name instead of the original (mines Megan for Margaret and my daughters is Mai for Mary). I love the tradition

I heard they do to protect identities some
Last names are very popular so it will be chances that more than one person will have same full name

We all have middle names in our family so we decided to do it too. Both our children have/will have the same middle names as us (we have a boy and a girl on the way)

My girl has 2 first names and a middle name named after my grandma x

Neither me nor my husband have middle names, it's quite uncommon in Greece and Poland. So we really wanted our LB to have one.

My sons middle name is David after his great grandad and my daughters middle name is May after his late great nana but also my sister has the same middle name so it was nice to have a middle name after both sides of the family. My neice has two middle names after my mum and nana.

In my family the males have two middle names which is proving quite challenging as I’m pregnant with my third and I’m pretty sure it’s a boy 😅 we’re desperately running out of names we like!

My daughter's middle name is after my Latvian great-grandmother, I admired her very much.

My family and my husbands family all have middle names. When we got married I made my maiden name a second middle name. We decided to give my daughter my maiden name as a second middle name too, her first middle name is the same as mine as it’s a family name on both sides. Therefore my daughter and I only have different first names.

Both myself and my daughter do but it's not for cultural reasons. For me my mum insulted her midwife by saying she hated her name then felt bad so gave me her name as my middle name and my daughters is my grandmas because she never got to meet her and she was my hero and it felt like a symbol of appreciation and so they would have a connection

In my culture a child can have 10 names. Given by grand parents and parents of the child.

We would then have to choose a first and middle name.

Not religious in the slightest, but I grew up hearing only the devil’s children don’t have middle names 😂. Our kids middle names are family names

Me and my 3 siblings all have middle names, 3 of our middle names are after our grandparents. Fourth is after my mums best friend as she was estranged from her dad. My son has a middle name, which is after my dad (Edward). If we had a girl it would have been after my MIL. My parents also have middle names. My dad is West Indian so idk where his comes from but my mums middle name is also after her nana. If we have another son in future idk what the middle name will be as my late grandad and my husband’s late dad have the same name (Alexander - English and Aleksandras - Lithuanian). We would use the English version but my husband’s dad was abusive so he doesn’t want to use either

My baby boys middle names are Bailey, Simon and David, long ik lol but bailey matched his name; and simon and david are my dad and granddad

Our daughter has a middle name that we just liked, no sentimental reason behind it. Our son’s middle name is an ode to my late father in law. All of my husband’s family have middle names.
I wasn’t give a middle name, my mum said this was because she had two which made her name super long so she didn’t want that for me!

We are an afro Latin family, and our son has 5 names in total, but Spain accepts only 2 first names and two last names. Do whatever feels good.

Also, I have two names. The advantage is that you can easily use the other name. As a kid, my first Christian name was wrongly pronounced and was made fun of by my mates, so I told my mum, "I prefer my other name" . And that the name I used up to now

My husband and I have 2 middle names each, so we gave our son 2 middle names too. One of them is sentimental and a family name, the other is just a name we liked but couldn't see ourselves using it as a first name

Yes both our boys have middle names. All of my family have them. And my other halves family. My reasoning is that I like how both names have to flow well together. Mainly the middle names in my family signify someone in our family. My middle name is May and my Nan and great great grandmother ( on my dad’s side) had it too and no one knew until they found her birth certificate. I do find it weird how some people don’t have them lol

My son has a middle name after my grandad and dad my partner has two middle names after males in his family and I have one after my gran

We have a common surname so wanted a middle name, even though my husband doesn't have one, so that they don't get mixed up with someone else in the future, like at banks or things! I also like having an extra name that not everyone just knows 😊

I don’t have a middle name, Childrens dad does. My son has a middle name but my daughter doesn’t. You don’t have to have middle names if you don’t want one, it’s completely down to you

I think having middle name is to make you a bit more unique because I remember someone telling me they were getting parking fines for someone else because they had the same name and it was just a first and last name haha

Our LG's middle name is the same as my sister's. The name is a nickname my great grandma gave my mum so we chose it to honour my mum who died in 2021

Neither of my parents have middle names. They didn’t necessarily intend on giving us middle names but when my eldest sister was born, they wanted to give her a name that several other babies in the hospital at the time had, so they changed her first name last minute and gave her the name they wanted as a middle name instead as they were concerned that there might be a mix up (nearly 50 years ago). My brother didn’t get a middle name. Then when I was born, years later, they gave me a middle name. My brother has resented not having a middle name as he thinks his name would sound better/more professional if he could add an initial in his name.
My children both have a middle name each. I chose all their names to honour family members.

My baby has a middle name as does my fiance however middle names weren't really a thing in my family and me and my sister don't have one

My husband and BIL don't, no idea why. So he wasn't fussed about giving out kids one but I wanted them to. It's kind of traditional but also helps when names cant be agreed on, I really wanted to name our daughter after my grandmother so I said he can choose her middle name and the next one 🤣

In my culture we do not use middle names either, but with my babies we chose to use them, by being born in UK and will grow here it will be part of their culture
That’s about it x