https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:31:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131551 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:40:21 +0000 MamaMoose 131551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No I wouldn't care at all. For a little girl our middle name will likely be Elizabeth, Ann, or Mary. All extremely popular middle names but they are family names and that's why we would use them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131549 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:39:20 +0000 Minnie_Girl 131549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do whatever you like! </p> <p>I like my middle name (Sarah) even though it's very common. I share the name with my amazing grandmother, though neither of us uses it (she goes by her middle name instead). </p> <p>I like middle names because it gives parents the opportunity to go hog wild and pick the crazy/obscure/hippie names, like Rhubarb or Ebenezer. :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131540 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:30:02 +0000 LuLu Mom 131540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We will be using family middle names, our girl name is my Great Grandma's maiden name (Rhea pronounced Ray) so it's a common middle name but an uncommon spelling. Our boy's middle name will be Michael after my DH's brother who passed away when they were kids. </p> <p>Second round will be more family names, most likely mine or my DH's middle name depending on gender. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131474 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:53:39 +0000 chopsuey 131474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What's the middle name?! I'm so curious.. :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131470 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:52:42 +0000 PBandBaseball 131470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My middle name is Ann which must have been super popular in the 70s/80s. It was my grandmother's middle name which makes it special to me. I don't think having a common middle name is as big of a deal as a common first name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131441 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:37:34 +0000 regberadaisy 131441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hm. our LO's middle name will be after my husband's maternal grandmother, a woman very dear to both of us. So even if it was a popular name I would not care. But it's a very very old school name so it's not popular. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131380 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:46:16 +0000 heffalump 131380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't care. You rarely even use your middle name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131369 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:26:45 +0000 winniebee 131369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nah, I say go for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131366 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:20:09 +0000 Rosie Girl 131366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I didn't care at all about popularity of middle name. DD's isn't popular, but it wouldn't have mattered if it was (its my middle name too!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131363 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:18:36 +0000 Alivoo01 131363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: I love the idea of having a Chinese middle name!! Is it spelled out like their Chinese name or something different? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131315 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:33:23 +0000 autumnlove 131315@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have so many friends with the middle name Marie! It must have been the "it" default middle name for girls in the 70s and 80s!<br /> Our LO has a Chinese middle name that will be rarely used! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131301 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:18:25 +0000 pastemoo 131301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: ditto. go for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131277 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:58:55 +0000 Alivoo01 131277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No bc typically you call a person by their first name. I only know maybe a handful of people my whole life that goes by their middle name instead. Or people go by a nickname so I say go for it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/middle-name-popularity#post-131263 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:40:57 +0000 mediagirl 131263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't know many people with kids. Recently I've been talking to the few parents I do know and keep hearing the same name over and over again for a girl's middle name. Guess what? It's the name we want to use. Since its the middle name, should it really matter? Does popularity of middle name matter as much as first names?? </p> <p>I loved having a different middle name that no one else had. It wasn't a weird name, just not Lynn like most people guessed when I wrote an L out for it. </p> <p>Do you care how popular the middle name you give your LO is? </p>