Middle names for girls...all the same

Fuzzypeaches

Does anyone else find that middle names for girls seem to be the same few used over and over?

Seriously probably half the people I know have the middle name Marie, Lee, Leigh, Dawn, or Rose. Or Joy.

Myself included

LMS05

My middle name is in that list. I refuse to give my child a plain, boring middle name with no meaning.?

groovychick

Yeah, but I have a theory on this....I figure that most people aren't as concerned with a middle name as they are a first name. So, most people will give their kid a middle name that is named after an aunt or a grandmother or something and that's why you see the same names over and over again for middle names....just a thought, that's all....

leah1615

Yeah, that is why I am using Adair as a mn for a girl. Other "filler" mns are elizabeth, grace, and anne.

kaitde

You forgot Ann/Anne! It's everywhere!

maltwin1

I have run into this, but my problem is that I want to use family names for middle names. The probem is that my family names are Catherine, Ann, Lynn, Lee and Fielding.

I've just learned to embrace the traditional.

kyna81

Take the middle name survey on this site and check out some alternatives.  It also talks about Grace, and others becoming the new Marie/Leigh/Dawn/Rose etc.

https://www.namenerds.com/uucn/advice/middle.html

CourtneyRDH

maltwin1:

I have run into this, but my problem is that I want to use family names for middle names. The probem is that my family names are Catherine, Ann, Lynn, Lee and Fielding.

I've just learned to embrace the traditional.

Catherine isn't a filler. My next daughter's middle name will be Catherine after my grandma. A filler name imo, is a name that sounds good with almost every first name. Catherine doesn't fit that.?

LMS05

CourtneyRDH:

maltwin1:

I have run into this, but my problem is that I want to use family names for middle names. The probem is that my family names are Catherine, Ann, Lynn, Lee and Fielding.

I've just learned to embrace the traditional.

Catherine isn't a filler. My next daughter's middle name will be Catherine after my grandma. A filler name imo, is a name that sounds good with almost every first name. Catherine doesn't fit that.?

Yes, I agree. If we have another girl, her middle name will be Catherine. It's a family name on both sides of our families?

shari_rngleson

ours is Quincy

juliane2004

My middle name is Juliane. I love it.