Middle names

Does your child have a middle name? Dh doesn't have one so he didn't want one for our DD. Does anyone else have a child without a middle name?

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I don't have a middle name! My mom just never gave me one. Felt my name was long enough.
I never missed it either.
We did give one to DD because it seems like it's the thing to do and we wanted to use my late MIL's middle name so it worked out.
But I don't think she'll ever use it either.

You don't need one....it's up to you

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DS has my first name as his middle name. I wanted to pass on my name, but definitely didn't want a "Junior", so this was a good compromise.
DD has a middle name that DW really liked

We almost never reference their middle names. I think DS likes the fact that we share a name, and that our initials are the same letters, just shifted around a bit.

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DH does not have one.

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My maiden name is now my middle name.
We gave the kids middle names that are IMO really inconsequential.

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My DS has a middle name. I have one, everyone in my family has one, everyone in my DH's family has one... it's just the norm to me, giving him a middle name or not was never even a thought.

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My mom does not have a middle name, but DD does. My middle name is my mom's first name and I gave DD the same name. Ava Theresa. If we had a boy, we would've done the same with DH's middle name, who has his father's first name as his middle name.

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I don't have a middle name but I gave them to my girls.

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My kids all have middle names, but neither my sister or I have a middle name - my brothers do though. My parents said they had enough trouble agreeing on first names for the girls.

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My son has a middle name... my DH was not thrilled about it however, because he and his family all do not have middle names. He finds it pointless. But I like it.

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I don't have a middle name, DH has one and so does DD. ( DD's middle name is the same name after my late aunt and DH late grandmother)

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My DH doesn't have one nor did any of his siblings but both of our kids do. We used grandparent names to honor them.

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My dds both have middle names as do I but they are never used. It never occurred to me not to give them one. My dh doesn't have a middle name

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I have one, DH does not. We are having a DD who will have one, but should we ever have a boy, DH is adamant about him not having one. Many of the males in his family do not have a middle name, so he wants to keep with tradition

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My mom doesn't have one. Her name is Bernadette so it's pretty long. She has 5 siblings who all have middle names except her which I find odd but oh well! My kids have middle names

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DH and I both have middle names. Both of my DC's have middle names as well. My son, we have never used his middle name. But my DD's middle name flows very nicely with her first name and we use her full name often.

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Someone I know did not have a middle name, but when she got married she made her maiden name her middle name.

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My brother and my father don't have middle names. But my sisters and I do. And my girls do as well.

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My mom never had a middle name and didn't give me a middle name, but gave both of my sisters middle names. I always hated not having a middle name!! I made sure to give our dd a middle name.

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Both of my kids have them as do DH and I, middle names in both of our families, generally are a family name and they are named after someone. My DD middle name is my SIL, my son is my Dad, mine is my mothers name, my DH is his Great Uncles name....you get the idea. Now, my Dad has no middle name and I never really thought much of it. Its not like its ever used, so I could really go either way on it.

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I don't have one but I have my kids one

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My siblings and I don't have middle names. My nephew doesn't either. I moved my maiden name to my middle name after I got married. My kids have middle names.