My 7 month old daughter’s middle name is Rose - I believe it’s the trendy middle name du jour. I chose it to honour my grandmother Jessie Rose, who was known as Rose all her life.
It’s a very strong pattern in my husband’s culture (Ukrainian) for children to have a derivative of their father’s first name in the middle. It’s so strong that if the sons of Ivan Whatever were not named Something Ivanovitch Whatever people would wonder who the real father is. Fortunately, his name has nice feminine derivatives that both of our daughters have as middle names.
First son: Brian William after my father and hubby’s father
Second son: Lyle Heath after my mother and hubby’s mother, masculinized
And yes, I realize that its pompous to have two middle names. Growing up, I always wished I had two. My husband has two. So my sons have two.
Marshall, after Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
My daughter has my mother-in-law’s maiden name Demarais (pronounced dem-er-ay). I just loved the name and always knew taht a daughter would have it as a maiden name.
My son’s Joseph, named for my mother’s brother who died in the Holocaust.
We’re having our first child in March.
He will get my middle name, which has been in the family as far back as we can trace it. It’s a founding father’s name (no relation - that I know of, heh.)
If I have another boy I want to give him his middle name either after Carl Sagan or my best friend. I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Middle name, not maiden. MIL’s maiden name, daughter’s middle name. :smack:
That’s awesome 
I mentioned in a thread a few months back that I plan to use that for a middle name if I have a boy. And “Ready” as a middle name if I have a second son. I don’t know where I’d go from there if I had more than two, though.
My son’s middle name is Noel (rhymes with bowl). He was born close to Christmas and my husband and I like the name. We had considered it for a first name, but there was too much chance of people pronouncing it “No-elle”.
My daughter’s middle name is Aileen, same as my mother’s middle name and my grandmother’s middle name.
My son’s middle name is his father’s surname. His surname is my surname.
You have touched on what is, for me, the one disadvantage of not going for a “one family, one surname” approach. It would have been nice to have a choice and pick a middle name for our son that we both liked or that symbolized something to us. However, since my husband and I have different surnames and wanted our son to carry both our names, there really wasn’t much choice - his middle name and his last name were destined to be our two last names. (I know, we could have hyphenated his last name, but didn’t want to go that route).
I wasn’t given a middle name and I have wanted one all my life. So, my kids got middle names.
Oldest’s is Anne
Middle is Gregory (after his dad)
Youngest’s is Douglas (after my dad).
They all fit their first names nicely. I would have preferred Jane for Daughter, but I’m good with it.
Some day I’m going to just go ahead and give myself a middle name. No idea what, but I will.
My son has 3 middle names.
He started out with Nicholas (because we were still practising Catholics at that point, and needed a saint’s name) and my last name. When he turned 12, he asked to add “Patrick” because he was born on St. Patrick’s Day. If we had been thinking, that’s the saint’s name we should have gone with in the first place, so we let him change his name. In fact, his grandfather paid for the name change as a birthday gift.
Unfortunately, with his 3 syllable first name and his 4 syllable last name, having 3 middle names creates the world’s longest name (14 syllables). When he’s in major trouble, and we yell at him using his full name, it takes forever. By the time we get to the end of it, we can’t remember why we were angry in the first place.
Happily, however, my son is a very unique child, and he loves having a million initials. He thinks it’s cool to have such an unusual name, so it all works out.
My daughter is 11 now so we might be ahead of the curve, but it is also her only name people will spell correctly. Both her first and our names will probably never be. I really think it makes an excellent middle name for a girl. Jessie Rose is cute.
Oh, I hear you on the spelling. My daughter is Annabel Rose. We get allllll kinds of manglizations of Annabel - right now I have a doctor’s bill for Annabelle, a party invitation for Annabella, a thing from daycare for Anabell and an email asking after Isabelle.
To date, no one has ever misspelt Rose!
My oldest’s middle name is Anthony. It’s my husband’s middle name, my father’s middle name, and my grandfather’s first name.
My youngest’s middle name is Gordon, which was my late father-in-law’s middle name and my brother-in-law’s middle name.
Incidentally, their first names also make multiple appearances in both my family tree and my husband’s family tree (they’re common, sort of old-fashioned names).
Hee, I hereby claim trailer trash mom of the thread. Our kids middle names relate to where they were conceived. No, neither is named Fairlane or Pontiac. One has the middle name of Jackson, the other Noel. Well actually the second should be named Christmas Tree/Under but that was a bit too lengthy to fit in the little space on the form.
Having decided early on that we wouldn’t use any family names, we chose middle names for our three that we liked and that we thought worked with the first names. The only criterion beyond that was that the oldest had to have a middle name that started with J, since we wanted to call him T. J.
So,
Justin
Dawn
Renee
Until it was clear my “summer off” from menstruation was perimenopause, I had a whim to use “Rice” for a middle name because I had a friend who died in early June whose name was Rice. He had no known next of kin so our employer had him cremated. I thought this would be a nice way for his memory to live on. Too bad all his gal pals at work were 45+.
My son’s middle name was my dad’s middle name and his mom’s (my grandmother’s) maiden name. My daughter’s middle name, Elizabeth, was bestowed for two reasons: (1) lots of ancestors with it and (2) her first name is really unusual, so if it turned out to be a pain for her she had a middle name to fall back upon that is pretty versatile.
Blair is my son’s middle name.
And my middle name.
And my father’s middle name.
And my grandfather’s middle name.
And my great-grandfather’s middle name.
And my great-great-grandfather’s middle name.
And my great-great-great grandfather’s middle name.
And my great-great-great grandfather’s mother’s maiden name.
After 150 years I wasn’t going to be the one to break the chain.