https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:59:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-885525 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:02:14 +0000 mamabolt 885525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Her MN is Marjorie, after my GM who passed away while I was pregnant. Before that, we were considering Elizabeth, which is my MN as well as my mom and MIL's MN. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-885444 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:37:50 +0000 Running Elley 885444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! His middle name is DH's first name. DD will also have a family middle, after my grandma. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-885422 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:31:20 +0000 NavyRN2012 885422@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS has a family name for his mn, and we were going to give LO a family mn, but the one we liked sounded awful with our last name, so her mn is just one we liked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-885361 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:16:43 +0000 plantains 885361@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD's middle names came from both our mums. My mum's name is Nigerian and his is Taiwanese, so you can imagine what her passport looks like:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-885354 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:15:59 +0000 sera_87 885354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's my middle name. It's my middle name because it was my birthmoms maiden name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-885340 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:13:07 +0000 ValentineMommy 885340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS's middle name is one we liked. While in utero, he always responded when I played Elliott Smith - so his middle name is Elliott. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-871718 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:28:00 +0000 MrsScallop 871718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOs middle name is my maiden name. I don't have any brothers, so it is important to me to try and keep the name going. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-871684 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:19:47 +0000 kjpugs 871684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>UGH i wish I was revealing on here what we're having! (Waiting unti lwe can tell family in person.) But yes LO's middle name is a family name. Middle names we'll be using are both mine and DH's middle names, I love where both of us got ours (mine is family, his is due to meaning) and would love passing them on. We also may use Joy for a future girl, because MIL's maiden name is Joyce, and LO's name will come from DH's side of the family, so we want to be "fair" if we have enough kids to do so :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-871668 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:18:37 +0000 kayakgirl73 871668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Her middle name was the first name of one of my grandmother's and the middle name of my other grandmother and my mom's confirmation name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name/page/2#post-871423 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:43:25 +0000 winniebee 871423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, named after my deceased FIL </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-871412 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:42:23 +0000 PurplePeony 871412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm still pregnant with our first LO, but we plan to give him or her, as well as any future kids, my last name as a middle name. They'll probably hate us for it, as it's long and doesn't sound like a "normal" middle name, but we travel internationally a lot and I want my last name on their passports. I thought of giving a second, "normal" middle name but DH doesn't like middle names at all and deciding on first names we both liked was hard enough, so that's unlikely. I figure they'll mostly use the middle initial, if anything, in everyday life, so they'll just deal with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869755 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:14:37 +0000 ladybee 869755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LOs middle name will most likely be Robert. It's my DH's name, which is also his grandfathers name and a cousin who passed away from cancer as a kid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869733 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:09:57 +0000 Alivoo01 869733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO's middle name was a name hubby fell in love with and refused to let go; and it isn't a family name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869639 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:34:45 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 869639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom and I share the same middle names as her mom and my great grandma. It was a long standing tradition that girls middle names are Marie.</p> <p>I broke that tradition with Chloe, though. Her middle name is Anne, a shortened version of Suzanne. My aunt Sue passed away a few years ago and was so important to me and my husband. We decided to name Chloes middle name after her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869623 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:27:56 +0000 purrpletulips 869623@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was important to me that both kids have a family name as some part of their name. DD's first name is after DH's grandmother (also happened to be my grandmother's best friend's name) and a random middle name that we both liked. DS's first name is new to the family but his middle name is the same as DH, FIL and BIL's first name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869621 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:27:00 +0000 prettylizy 869621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Her middle name is a family name, but I love it too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869616 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:24:44 +0000 illumina 869616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO isn't here yet, but one of the middle names we are considering is my Mum's name, Christine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869613 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:23:03 +0000 regberadaisy 869613@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO's middle name is after DH's maternal grandmother, a woman very dear to us both. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869569 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:05:55 +0000 pelikila 869569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My middle name is a family name and C's middle name is a family name. DH's middle name is just a name his mom liked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869568 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:05:48 +0000 mrsbookworm 869568@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son's middle name is my maiden name. I wanted him to have a part of my family as well as my husbands. If we have any more children, they'll all have the same middle name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869550 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:54:04 +0000 MrsTiz 869550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom and dad both had brothers named Eric/Erik who passed away, so LO's middle name will be Eric. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869547 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:53:00 +0000 SugarplumsMom 869547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't want any namesakes so we specifically picked out names that are new to both families. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869537 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:35 +0000 dagret 869537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>L's MN is his great-great uncles first name but that was a coincidence. If we have a girl someday I want to use my moms middle name, which is also after my grandpa and great-uncle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869516 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:28:05 +0000 Ash 869516@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Middle names in both our families are mainly just names that are liked... but DH and I decided our boy name will be a family name... and our girl name is just a name we like. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869515 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:27:08 +0000 Sugar.Biscuit 869515@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretty sure all our kids will have a family name as a middle name. I am the 7th generation of Sue's on my side so we plan on continuing that tradition. We also want to use DH's name some how because he was named after his father &amp; we would also like to us my grandpa's name. He passed away in October &amp; it breaks my heart he won't be here for this. *Holy cow here come the pregnancy hormones* </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869507 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:20:48 +0000 anbanan15 869507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS has DH's first name as his middle. If this baby is a girl it will have my middle name. If we have another boy we will use ether DH's middle or a variant of his first or middle name. </p> <p>We have a similar tradition in my family. I have my mothers middle name and my one brother has my dad's. Purifier brother has a varient form of my dad's name for his name (it is nothing like my dad's name, but they are both used as nicknames for the same different name with the same meaning). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869463 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:14:03 +0000 bunnylove08 869463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dd middle name was a name dh liked and wanted to be her first name but my #1 choice won and his name was bumped to middle name. And her second middle name is my late mother's name </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869458 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:57:19 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 869458@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD's middle name will be Lynn which is both my mothers middle and my paternal grandmother's middle. I have always wanted to have a girl so I could do that. So excited! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869433 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:48:09 +0000 aprk 869433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep - he shares my middle name which is my grandmothers maiden name </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-los-middle-name-a-family-name#post-869419 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:26:17 +0000 Ree723 869419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we decided if it was a girl, her middle name would be DH's grandmother's name, if it was a boy, it would be my grandfather's name. Both served in WWII and whilst neither are alive today, they are truly inspirational people.</p> <p>We were TG so when LO was born, we named her right away.....but didn't find out until a few weeks later that we'd mistakenly used the wrong spelling of DH's grandmother's name! We went with Vivian when his grandma's name was spelled Vivien. I actually preferred it with an -en but wanted to keep it true to her spelling.....sigh, I was not happy when we found out that we'd spelled it wrong. DH is a bit of a scatterbrain when it comes to this stuff! </p>