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mrs.forrister
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Are you calling LO by their middle name?
mrs.forrister
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Are any of you calling LO by his/her middle name? We started off calling LO by his first name (H's pick) but it just didn't seem right to me, so he is now being called by his middle name (which was my pick) and it's perfect for him.
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Re: Are you calling LO by their middle name?
I am confused, why not just switch the names around?
This. It's one thing for a nickname to come based on a middle name (my middle name is Juliane and sometimes my mom calls me Jules) but it's another to PLAN to call your child by their middle name alone. It's my opinion that you put the name you want to call your child as their first name. If you like their middle name so much you want to call them that, great! Just put it as their first name.
This!
Yes. It's actually not that uncommon here is the south, but here is our story:
LO will be named Michael Rhys.
Michael is my DH's late father's name and Rhys is the name we REALLY loved.
So we are calling him Rhys, although his name is Michael Rhys. We could have done Rhys Michael, but Michael Rhys had a better "flow" in our opinion.
Call the baby what you want. Besides, when they are older they can switch them out if they want. Some people even use both names to refer to...whatever you want!
I'm not calling my LO by their middle name but since a few people in my family are I thought I'd just share.
My mum is named Jean Elizabeth. Her parents have always called her Beth. Reason being Elizabeth Jean didn't sound right to them. And she is a Beth.
Similarly, my brother is named Arthur William Timothy. Timothy is his first name. He was named after our father, who is also Arthur William Timothy, who is named after his father who is Arthur William. I guess my grandparents felt that Timothy Arthur William didn't flow right, and so my brother inherited the name in the same order.
My DH's grandma is named Eleanor Joan, but goes by Joan because she didn't like the name Eleanor or the nicknames that go with it. She says she has always been Joan to everyone, even her parents.
Anyway, that can be the reasoning for calling your LO by their middle name instead of their first.
You can run into problems, like the first day of school my mum said during roll call they called out Jean and she corrected them to Beth. But if your child goes by a nickname they would do that anyway to let the teacher know what they prefer to be called ie Matt instead of Matthew.
I say since it's YOUR baby, choose what ever order you want your child's name to be in and choose what ever name you want to call them by. If people can name their baby's after fruit (Apple) and colours (Blue Ivy) why can't you do this? It's less out there in my opinion.
I'm not calling her by her middle name, however her nickname will be AJ, which are of course her first and middle name initials.
My husband goes by his middle name, as does my grandfather and an uncle. I haven't found it to be a trend though, as some have spoken of.
Our LO will go by his middle name. Babies name will be William Gunner and will go by Gunner. My FIL is a William Leslie and my hubby is William Charles that goes by Chuck. We wanted to continue the trend of having William as the first name for several reasons. We LOVE the name Gunner and have said we were gonna use it since before we started trying, but we want to honor my FIL as this will be the first and possibly only grandson to continue the name. I also like that LO will be able to use William as an adult in a professional setting if he feel that is needed, though I feel Gunner will grow with him.
Name baby what you want. I agree the flow of the name also had an impact on our decision. I don't see it as a trend, but a close friend of ours is naming their baby William Taylor and going by Taylor. William has a family history for them as well and I think it is the best of both worlds. You can be traditional while still getting to have a "different" name.
I have had three students in the last two years that do this -- they just tell you on the first day, and by the end of the week, you hope you remember
I'm a teacher, and I've never thought it was a pain in the a$$ when a student goes by a middle name rather than a first name, any more than when a student prefers to go by a nickname or shortened version of their first name. In the area where I live, it's common for the oldest son to have the same first name as his father, but a different middle name, and to go by the middle name, so I don't really see an issue with it. OP, do what you're comfortable doing.
My husband is a junior, he is called by a nickname derived from Ronald, his middle name. He is Ronnie and so is my father in law.
Our son is a third and we are calling him by a nickname from his first name, William, and we are calling him Liam. I dunno I feel you should just do as you please. But maybe switch them around.
If we have a boy he will go by his middle name since he's being named after his father and just calling him junior seems silly to me.
DH's name is William (two middle names) Last Name IV. He goes by his second middle name, and has since birth. It's never been a big deal for him.
I don't care for William or Will, Willy, Bill, Billy, Liam or any other possible variation of it, so we will be calling LO by one of his middle names.
Home Birthing-Breastfeeding-Cloth Diapering-Baby Wearing-CoSleeping-Delayed/Selective Vaccination Mama to Charlie (5yrs) and Madeline (21mos)
I've been calling our little one by a diminutive of her decided middle name already, yes.
My Husband just calls her by her first name, and at this point, claims he probably only will call her by her first name...
In my family, nicknames, middle names and diminutives just run rampant, so it's not weird or inappropriate for me!
It's your baby, call him/her by what you feel is their name. When they're an adult themselves, they'll have two names to choose from if they feel they need to.