Maiden Name = Middle Name

cozylittlecave

Somewhat random, but I figured I'd throw this out there (it's a slow night). Maybe some of you struggling on middle names will be inspired lol.

My sisters & I all have the same middle name- 'Walker' - which was my mother's maiden name. DH & I really like the idea of giving a kid a name from both mom & dad- particularly when we don't have any 'family' names we'd like to use. We'll likely do the same for our kiddos. 

 Anyone else ever find someone who did this or plan to? My maiden name is somewhat unusual, but it flows VERY well with our last name, so that helps a lot.

gjkhjr01

My maiden name is Ren?, and that's my daughters MN. That was easy...

cozylittlecave

glad to know we're not the only ones!

 

and oooh! Christ! I can COMPLETELY understand the issues surrounding it because of spelling, but pronounced correctly, I LOVE it!!! Your family really does have lovely last names!

mstc0422

Yes!  My parents used my mom's maiden name as middle name for me, my brother and my sister.  My dd's middle name is my maiden as well.

jlw559

mj.reilly:

I had thought about it, but my made name really wouldn't work. Both middle names we used are family last names from my relatives though.

Miles Wilhelm (German side, paternal) and Fiona Clarie (Irish side, maternal).

I love my family's last names! There is one that I will never use though (I was attacked on here because of it)?which is Christ. It was my German ancestors last name, pronounced Chris-t not Cry-st. I loved how it sounded too (Minnie Christ was her name?DH jokes that I am related to mini Cry-st)

That's mine! ha I love it for a boy or Wilhelmina for a girl.

EastCoastBride

I know a fair amount of people who have done this.  I did it myself.  My maiden name, though, is Cole, which is becoming a boys name in it's own right.

Emjay221

My friend growing up was Tiffany Bradford Booth.  Her mom's maiden was her middle.  I always liked it.

rin2809

My parents did this for me and I love it. My mom's maiden name was Lane, so it worked well as a mn... I would love to pass on the tradition, by my maiden name really doesn't work

pea-kay

I never found middle names to be a big deal, but I do see them as a good place to put a family name. My middle name is my grandmother's first name, for example.

So the boys each have a family maiden name as their middle name. Linus has my maiden name, Oliver has MIL's maiden name, and Miles has my mom's maiden name.  We put the names together based on what sounded best together.

klaus

My MN is my mom's maiden name.  My child(ren) will all have either my maiden or my MN as a MN.  I don't care if the first name(s) I choose flows with the MN.  It's a MN.  It never gets used.

NaHoku

It is Filipino tradition to have the mother's maiden name as a middle name.  So growing up, I had two middle names (b/c my mom also wanted to choose one), and the second one was Mom's maiden name.  Both of my kids have two middle names and the second is my maiden name.  It doesn't sound like a first name of any sort, it's a Spanish word and I think it's beautiful and I love it (I dropped my mom's maiden name and kept my own maiden name as a second middle name when I got married).

babyonthebrain2010

I think that's a cool idea, especially if it's not too crazy a name and it flows well with the last name!

brookelynpaisley

I had my mom's maiden name as my middle name and hated it. It was an ugly German name, and I dropped it when I got married and took my maiden name. My maiden name does work as a MN, and we don't like any of the family names for middle names. DH didn't like his MN either, and we both always wished we had MNs that complimented our FNs and that's what our kids will have.