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We're considering it...my husband, his dad, and his grandfather all share the same first name...but they all have different middle names (so they aren't junior, III). At first my husband really wanted to continue this if we had a boy but now he's not so sure...he's open to other names now that we're TTC

We have a family name for a middle name but I gave J my dads first name as his middle. I kind of wish I put both in there to follow tradition but DH thought it was too long of a name.

There are naming traditions in my family but not down my line. I'm ambivalent about it. DH did ask me to follow Jewish tradition and not name R after a living relative.

My husband is, technically, a III. No one acknowledges that though. We didn't give our son that name, but no one told us we should or "had" to.

We actually gave our son the family name from our good friend's family tradition. Our friend is FirstName MiddleName LastName the 17th. He named his son MiddleName only and broke the tradition in his family. We also named our son MiddleName.

ETA: MiddleName is so rare, we'd never heard of it before and I never find in on any name lists or websites or even Google searches.

Did not follow the tradition which is paternal grandparents, then maternal grandparent for first names of children.

Kind of. My dad's side of the family has the family name of Earl, starting with my great grandfather Earl, grandpa JEARLD, great uncle PEARL, and dad JEARLD (who goes by his middle name). They intentionally spelled Jearld that way so it has EARL in it.

I brought it up to my dad a long time ago that I might use Earl in my future sons name one day and he said absolutely not. Haha! He doesn't like it, even though he had it picked out as a middle name for my sister and I had we been boys.

So I'm giving my son the same middle name as my dad instead. Reminds me of that Dixie Chicks song, Goodbye Earl. Lol

This is the first male in my bloodline since my dad. Unfortunately after my sister and I got married our maiden name has died off completely. There's no living relatives to pass on my maiden name. Kind of sad. Unfortunately it doesn't work as a first or middle name or I would have used it.

DH's family usually gives the first born son their dad's middle name. I don't know how far back it goes and no one mentioned or pressured us to use it so we didn't. If we end up ever going for a third and it turns out to be another boy maybe we will consider it or a variation.

We didn't give our LO a Chinese middle name. She has an unofficial Chinese name though. I feel guilty but only a tiny bit.

Sort of. When we visited DH's family when LO was 7-8 months old, his uncle mentioned how one of his daughters (DH's cousin) has a middle name of a family maiden name. LO has DH's grandparents' last name as a middle name.

For our next LO, it'll have my family's middle name conventions.