Our little girl has a middle name - Hartley Rose Layton (Layton - surname) but I do regret it a bit as sometimes people assume she’s hyphenated Hartley-Rose 🫠🫠 instead of just Hartley! Anyway… my husband is now very against giving baby 2 a middle name. Says her name (Holliday Layton) is enough but I feel like we gave her sister a middle name so we should give her one too. I don’t have a middle name at all and always wanted one - just doesn’t feel right to do one for one but not the other! I’ve proposed female variants of our dads’ names (Bobbie and Stevie) or Marlowe which was number 2 on our list but he’s a very stubborn man!
Any thoughts on this would be helpful!
C section in less than 2 weeks so it’s getting close!x
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Aweee I say give her the middle name! That way she doesn’t grow up jealous her sister has one, or even vice versa. Also, I don’t understand why people assume it’s hyphenated 🙃 maybe because it all flows together so nicely. Love the name choices by the way!

Must be a GB thing, my son has two middle names and theres been no confusion

I say give a middle name! I don't have a middle name either but all my kids do/will. Also don't let him have the last say, you're doing the lions share of creating this bub 😉

I think you should. I think the name is very cute but since it’s also a season a thing holiday then I’d suggest a middle name too just incase one day she’d like to go by a different name. Which some people do all the time. My cousin went by his middle name basically his whole life. And other people switch it up. So I’d do it to give a variety of options for her. But also because her sister has one too

it's weird that people would assume that your daughter's name is hyphenated, as pretty much everyone has a middle name - far more common to have a middle name than a hyphenated first name! and especially if you call her by only her first name & introduce her as Hartley, not Hartley Rose! i wouldn't regret it - it must be irritating when people get it wrong, but it's such a pretty name!
i also wouldn't let that stop you from giving her sister a middle name! i guess Rose is a name that is more commonly used as a hyphenated name, whereas names like Marlowe, Stevie etc aren't so i think it's unlikely that people would assume she has two first names. i like Holliday Marlowe - or maybe Holliday Robyn (as a female version of Bob!) 💕

I think a middle name is a lovely thing to have. Maybe something short and classic will win over Hubby? Stevie and Bobbie don’t flow as well as Rose in my opinion.
Holiday Rue Layton
Holiday Anne Layton
Holiday Louise Layton
Holiday Grace Layton
Holiday Claire Layton

My brother doesn't have a middle name but I do. We don't care 🙃😂. I only have one because they could agree on one, whereas with my brother they couldn't agree so just went without!
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Our little girl has a middle name - Hartley Rose Layton (Layton - surname) but I do regret it a bit as sometimes people assume she’s hyphenated Hartley-Rose 🫠🫠 instead of just Hartley! Anyway… my husband is now very against giving baby 2 a middle name. Says her name (Holliday Layton) is enough but I feel like we gave her sister a middle name so we should give her one too. I don’t have a middle name at all and always wanted one - just doesn’t feel right to do one for one but not the other! I’ve proposed female variants of our dads’ names (Bobbie and Stevie) or Marlowe which was number 2 on our list but he’s a very stubborn man!
Any thoughts on this would be helpful!
C section in less than 2 weeks so it’s getting close!x

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