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I say go for it. I really wanted to use DH's Mom's maiden name (super common last name, starts with S) as our girl's middle name. She died before we started dating, so I thought that it would be a great way she is always involved in her life. DH wants to wait and see if the #2 is a boy, cause he would rather use it for a boy, but we will use it regardless for #2, whether girl or boy.

I like it! I've heard lots of masculine names used... Especially in double names (oh, southerners!)

I think :princessbaby did something similar with her little girl and it sounds fab! She might be a good one to ask about it...

My middle name is a (masculine) family last name from my mother's side. As a kid, I was embarrassed to have a "boy's" name. Around high school age, though, I started really appreciating the history of my name and I started to become very proud of my heritage. I ended up passing my middle name onto my daughter and I tell her all the time how lucky we are to have this name as part of our family history.

I have similar middle name and I actually really like my middle name.

I think your maiden name as a middle name would be just fine, and I like that it's meaningful! She'll share it with mom, and that's cool.

If DS had been a girl chances are really great that her name would have been Grace Evan or Evans (the latter is DH's middle name, his dad's middle name and his grandmother's maiden name). I say go for it!

@Bookworm: I think if you convey the importance of the name to her, she'll grow up to love and appreciate it.

I love the idea of doing that! I am named after my great-grandfather (whose middle name was McKinley) and my grandfather (Ray). I never knew another Kinley growing up. So when my husband wanted a really traditional first name for our daughter, we kept the family name going as a middle name. She is Katherine McKinley. I like the way it sounds, and I figure that if she ever has to be one of two or more kids in her class with the name Katie, she can be Katie Mac instead of "Katie B."

I have 2 middle names: 1 feminine and then my mother's maiden name. I loved having that connection to her and plan on doing the same with our LO! Actually if it's a boy, we will give him my maiden name as his first name. If it's a girl it will become a middle name.

I have my grandmother's maiden name as my middle name and it is more masculine. I love it!!! It is different and whenever I am asked my middle name, I feel the need to explain it, but it is so special to me.

I'm named Abigail Mason Lastname and Mason is my moter's maiden name. I kept Mason as my middle when I got married because I love it so much! So special to me.

I love the idea, I say go for it. We did the reverse with a masculine first name and feminine middle name.

I love this idea!

I think its wonderful! What a great idea. I think that masculine middle names are great. People never really judge/care about middle names, but when its something meaningful, its so cool.
Especially something like 'James' or 'Michaels' - I think they would be so unique!

I say TOTALLY go for it! A friend of mine named her daughter Mattie Joe instead of "Jo". People often misspell it but I still think it's adorable

@mamamoose I was just about to tag @princessbaby in this post!

Who really uses the middle name anyway? Go for it!

@travelgirl1: Awwww!!! Thank you!

My daughter is named Harper James LastName and we actually get a lot of compliments on how cool/hip it is...DH's middle name is Michael after the Catholic Saint so he wanted LO to have the same concept, and he thought James went well with Harper. At first I was like, "Whaaaaa???" But it only took a couple of hours for me to really love it. I think if a name works, it works, masculine/feminine/whatever!

I'm kind of jealous of my daughter's name! I think the masculine middle name makes it really edgy or something? Like I met a girl named Ryan once and I was like- there's nothing fancy about the name Ryan for a boy, but on a girl, it's cool as hell!

I love the idea! If my maiden name could work as anything other than a last name I would so do that too!