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would you ever...

ready2goready2go
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use the middle name of one child for the 1st name of a later-born child?

my instinct is no - too weird and don't want to give the child a complex! - but we're trying to figure out/agree on a 3rd girl name and having trouble!

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  • jmb527jmb527 member
    I personally wouldn't. But I have seen it done before. Maybe if it has special meaning to you, or if it is a family name that might not make it as strange.
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  • Patches08Patches08 member
    Ehhh.. I wouldn't, DH and I just love too many names.
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  • StrawberryAlarmClockStrawberryAlarmClock member
    Not to sound morbid but the only time I've ever heard of that being done was one time when the older one had passed. My roommate in college was named after an older sibling who was born with a disease that she succumbed to before my roommate was born. (PS: if you're superstitious and having this post in your thread bothers you, I'll delete it for you. I'm superstitious and I'd understand). :)
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  • ready2goready2go

    imageStrawberryAlarmClock:
    Not to sound morbid but the only time I've ever heard of that being done was one time when the older one had passed. My roommate in college was named after an older sibling who was born with a disease that she succumbed to before my roommate was born. (PS: if you're superstitious and having this post in your thread bothers you, I'll delete it for you. I'm superstitious and I'd understand). :)

    ha ha.  I totally weird about things like that too but no need to delete.  thanks though :-)

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  • Stacey1213Stacey1213
    no that would be a little too weird IMO
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    BTW - Stacey - I love your girls name, Juliana Fay. So so pretty!!
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  • ChocolateCupcakesChocolateCupcakes

    I think it's weird.  

     

    I know a family that had 7 girls and every girl had either Mary, Marie or Maria in their first or middle name.  

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  • krissyh21krissyh21 member
    Nope. I am a strong believe in giving each person their own name. I even hate juniors.
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  • HappyMrsKHappyMrsK member

    I wouldn't do it just because there are so many names that I would love to use. I would hate to limit myself that way.

    I do know someone who named her two sons John Thomas and Thomas John. They were named after their father and paternal grandfather. I thought it was weird at the time and also way too egomanical for my taste. Both are alive and in their teens now. They call them by their initials JT and TJ, which I'm personally not a fan of either.

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  • Allie30Allie30 member

    my parents thought the were done after my second-to-last brother was born, so they gave him both their favorite names. the along comes my youngest brother. they considered taking the older one's mn and giving it to the baby but he'd just learned his full name and they thought it was cruel.

    to contrast, a family friend, very catholic, prayed to the virgin that if her husband survived the war he was fighting, she'd name her daughter mary. fast forward to four daughters named mary, all of whom went by their middle names (i.e. mary pat, mary jo, mary ann, etc.)

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  • plunderbplunderb member

    imageStrawberryAlarmClock:
    Not to sound morbid but the only time I've ever heard of that being done was one time when the older one had passed. My roommate in college was named after an older sibling who was born with a disease that she succumbed to before my roommate was born. (PS: if you're superstitious and having this post in your thread bothers you, I'll delete it for you. I'm superstitious and I'd understand). :)

    This was my thought, too.

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  • lovinfalllovinfall member
    I really don't give to much value to middle names and thus would have use it as a first name.
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  • PhilsWife07PhilsWife07 member
    My aunt did that with my cousin. I don't think he has any complexes as a result.
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  • msmerymacmsmerymac member
    imageChocolateCupcakes:

    I think it's weird.  

     

    I know a family that had 7 girls and every girl had either Mary, Marie or Maria in their first or middle name.  

     

    That's often cultural or religious though. I knew a girl who went by her middle name (Lisa) but her first name was Maria. Same with 2 of her 3 sisters - her country passed a law relating to children with the "same name" before her youngest sister was born, so she's the only one who goes by her first rather than her middle, since there's no "Maria" in her name.

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  • starlight8323starlight8323 member

    No, I wouldn't do it.

    I think each child should have their own name to be proud of.

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