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It's never been an issue for me, DH, or DD.

I have two middle names and do does LO. It doesn't bother me. The main thing was deciding to keep my maiden name legally when I got married. I decided to drop it. As an adult I often use a middle initial if I don't want to write the whole thing. If you like how all the names go together go for it. It's really no hassle.

J has two middle names (his fathers first name and my maiden name) and so far it hasn't been an issue! On legal documents you just put both, or two initials. But anything else, we just use his first middle name.

My brother and my sister both have two middle names and they have never complained either - they like the oddity of it.

Both of my kids have my maiden name as one of their middle names, and it's not been a problem. My middle name is my mom's maiden name, but I don't have a "real" middle name, so I wanted my kids to have both.

LO has two middle names (both of our mother's first names) and so far it's never been an issue. On forms that allow space for the full two names, I write them out. Most of the time we shorten to "HL" as her middle name, or just use "H" if only 1 initial is allowed.

I have 2 middle names (the second is my moms maiden name) never an issue until I got married...then I just dropped my moms maiden name snd replaced it with my maiden name so I still have just 2.

LO has two middle names and it's not a hassle at all.

I kept my middle name and made my maiden name a second middle name when we got married. It is rarely an issue, but I would decide very early how you want forms written out. I wasn't thinking when I got my new drivers license and had it written as First AB Last. My passport says First A Last, so when I book flights I have to make sure to put the write name. It's a minor thing so I wouldn't let it stop me if it was important to me, just something to be aware of.

I have had two middle names since I got married. For me, it's a huge pain--but I think there are some specific reasons for that:

1) I go by a nickname of my (original) middle name. So, that's kind of always been a pain anyway, and now it's even worse since there are four names to sift through. (I honestly probably should have dropped my first name when I got married--I never went by it, but I felt like that was disrespectful to my parents somehow.)

2) I bought our house under my maiden name, and now the legal forms are all confusing.

So, yeah, for me, it's a pain. But maybe that's mainly due to ADDING a fourth name and I wouldn't have had the same issues if I started out with all of them. I will say, though, folks seem to have had good experience filling out forms/etc, but generally speaking for anything financial (loans, banking, etc) people HATE ME when they are trying to figure out how to fit my name into their systems.

Good luck on your decision! Sounds like you have lots of awesome names picked out. So excited for you and your DH about your soon-to-arrive LO!

@Mae: I'm really glad you made this post. I've been vacillating about this for a while! I was considering it for myself when I got married, and ended up just not changing my name bc I couldn't decide what I wanted to change it to. Now that I'm about to have a baby any day now, I have been struggling with wanting my last name in my LO's name and wanting to use my grandmother's name as a middle name but not knowing if four names was "too much."

My lo has two middle names from each set of grandparents. So far we haven't run into any problems and I'm happy with it bc I feel like both families are represented