https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 19 May 2026 04:06:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1845186 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:35:03 +0000 SwanSong 1845186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My little man has my mom's maiden name, Jefferson, as his middle name. My grandfather was touched that we used the name for our little guy, he had all girls and thought the Jefferson name was ended since my mom and aunts all changed their last name. He got teary saying "the Jefferson name lives on," I hope it continues to be passed down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1845164 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:21:45 +0000 rachiecakes 1845164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I have a family surname as a middle name. My name is "firstname-familyname-dadslastname".<br /> It was my great-grandmother's maiden name and my grandfather, mother, uncle and cousin all have it. </p> <p>I really wanted to incorporate it into J's name, but I also wanted my dad's first name as J's middle and DH thought adding the second middle name would be too much. I'm still a little sad that I probably won't be able to pass along this family name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1845142 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:11:10 +0000 ChiCalGoBee 1845142@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh-we had our name SET for our November boy, which is a pretty typical boy first name, and an old family surname as the middle name. We needed an "S" middle name to honor my late MIL (her name started with S), and it's a family name from my grandfather (not my mom's maiden name-her paternal grandma's maiden name, actually). It is one syllable (perfect with our two-syllable first name and two-syllable last name), unique, and means "song" in another language. DH and I met in college choir-I thought it was quite literally the perfect choice on so many levels. We picked it and agreed on it in July. And then? DH turns to me yesterday and says he doesn't like it and goes back to the baby book to pick a regular S name like "Scott" "Steve" "Simon" etc. Sigh. I don't want to play this card, but since I'm the one delivering this baby, I might be trumping his vote on this one! :wink: I say surnames as middle names are an absolute win! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1845129 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:06:18 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1845129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have loved to use my maiden name as part of a LOs name. One of my cousins gave it to her son as a first name. I was annoyed when she did it because it was never her last name, but her mothers. I realize that's petty now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1845111 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:56:18 +0000 loki 1845111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My middle name is my mom's maiden name - Mitchell! I actually really love it and always did. If we have a son his middle name will be my maiden name - Thomas. Both perfect middle name maiden names! If we have a second son he will probably get Mitchell. All my dad's siblings have their mom's maiden name as their middle name. UK bees... is this a British thing? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1844250 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:42:30 +0000 jedeve 1844250@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden name would be pretty for a girl's middle name. The other maiden names in my family (Hoenig, Jones) wouldn't be that great. DH has Herzog, Walsh, and Garrity. Walsh would be OK. Garrity I think would be a great first name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840896 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:50:46 +0000 nana87 1840896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My middle name (and my mom's and my brother's) is my mom's maiden name and now also lo's mn. I like that we all have the same name for a middle! Next lo will have my maiden name as a middle instead though </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840799 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:57:22 +0000 MrsLonghorn 1840799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband's middle name is his mother's maiden name - and it is obviously a last name. When I got married and changed my last name, I dropped my original middle name and bumped my old last name to my middle name (First Middle Maiden -&gt; First Maiden NewLast). It is also very clearly a last name. We will be using my maiden name as our son's middle name so as a family we will have:<br /> DH: ABC (where B is his mother's maiden name)<br /> Me: DEC (E is my maiden name)<br /> DS: FEC (E is my maiden name)</p> <p>I'd include the names here to make it less confusing, but they are VERY uncommon. It never bothered my husband as a child, and having a weird last name never bothered me - it was just complicated because no one could pronounce it correctly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840712 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:02:49 +0000 rattles 1840712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH's middle is his mother's maiden. We're debating following the tradition by giving a boy my maiden, but since we're looking at family names for the first name, it depends on the side/fit/flow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840696 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:51:37 +0000 Mommy Finger 1840696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH's name is my MIL's maiden name. DS's name is DH's grandmother's maiden name with DH's name as his middle. I joke that we gave him 3 last names. :)</p> <p>One of my best friends has 2 middle names, both of his grandmothers' maiden name. I love tradition. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840550 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:59:25 +0000 Mrs.Someone 1840550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used my grandmother's maiden name for DS's middle, however it was a way to name him after my dad who had the same middle. Not going to share the name, but it is a common male name anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840547 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:58:40 +0000 annie624 1840547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like it!! My maiden name is Hamilton. I feel like that might be too stuffy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840400 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:21:19 +0000 Mrs. Cheesecake 1840400@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Typically in Filipino families, the mother's last/maiden name is the child's middle name and the father's last name is the child's last name. That's how we named our LO and that's how most of our family members are named as well. Doesn't matter if the mother's last/maiden name sounds "good" as a middle name or not it's just done this way. I like it because both families are included in a child's name. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840237 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:12:15 +0000 Mrs. Tea 1840237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our little one to come in December actually has two surnames for his first and middle. I think it all depends on the name and I really like the two you listed :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840235 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:07:07 +0000 autumnlove 1840235@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think my maiden name would make a decent middle name but my parents were against it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840232 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:05:50 +0000 birdofafeather 1840232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden is not suitable for a middle, but I know lots of friends that borrowed surnames from family for middles and even firsts! My friend's son's name is Benjamin, which was actually a grandpa's last name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840210 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:42:01 +0000 lovehoneybee 1840210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is Evan Charles. Evans is D's middle name, his dad's middle name and his paternal grandmother's maiden name, and Charles is my MIL's maiden name :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840186 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:15:16 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1840186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: @Mrs. Champagne: thank you ladies; I'm going to keep it in my back pocket for when it's time to start picking out names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840184 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:13:50 +0000 Corduroy 1840184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have my mom's maiden name as my middle. LO has my grandma's maiden name as her middle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840174 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:06:38 +0000 charmed 1840174@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH has his mother's maiden name as a middle name (it's a name that is commonly a first name though). DH actually has a lot of last names in his family that would work great for male first/middle names.<br /> My family - not so much! Lots of hard to pronounce German surnames. :meh: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840169 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:54:41 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 1840169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Holiday is so cool!</p> <p>Our babes middle name is my Grans middle name. Which was her moms maiden name. So he has his great-great grandmas maiden name as a middle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840167 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:54:25 +0000 twodoghouse 1840167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My twins each have one of our mom's (so their grandmothers) maiden names. My son's middle is Alexander which is my MIL's maiden name and my husband's first name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840162 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:48:07 +0000 mrsjazz 1840162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: We don't have a surname in our LO's middle name but I think it would be pretty cool to use Holiday for your LO. I wish I had a cool name like that in my family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840140 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:26:19 +0000 LAZB 1840140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We plan on giving our next son my maiden name as a middle name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840134 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:17:03 +0000 cascademom 1840134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We gave our LO his great grandparents' last name as his middle name. We had that decided before his first name. It works well with his name too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840128 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:08:41 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 1840128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of my sons have my last name as their middle. I kept it, so I liked having a connection to them that way, too. It's an English last name, not super common, but not weird for a middle and works well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840042 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:29:38 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1840042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad has his grandmother's maiden name as his middle - Sheldon! I think it's sweet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840039 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:28:57 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1840039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My middle names are a given name and my mom's maiden name.<br /> DD has her paternal great grandmother's maiden name as her first middle and my maiden name as her second middle name. She shares her middle name with FIL. It's not a traditional middle name it translates from French to young, but it flows beautifully with her first name and connects her to a brave woman. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840036 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:27:57 +0000 mlm2934 1840036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO has my maiden as his middle name. DH also has his mothers maiden as MN, so I think it's cool they have it in common :) I won't share since not gold though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/family-surnames-as-middle-names#post-1840033 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:27:21 +0000 LulaBee 1840033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We gave my daughter my maiden name as a second middle name. So she's E****** A** Hill H*****. </p>