How do you all feel about 4+ name names? Sorry if too long, I type too much when I'm tired.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

*Edit*Funnily enough, after reading a comment and then trying to open up a new tab for the community, I accidentally went to babynames.com instead and saw a headline for a little girl from Madrid with 25 middle names. :P



Our daughter had a 5-name name. Her first name was Brenna Rose and her middle name was Sherman, after my cat (whhooo morphine), and her last name was our last names hyphenated.
Now, since she didn't have two middle names it didn't seem so bad; we called her both Brenna and Brenna Rose. Anyway, I thought it might be cute to carry on the two-name middle name with all of our kids, but my fiance isn't too hot about it I'm not either really.. just thought it'd be cute.

I've since started teaching (I'm a sub)and oh my god, these kids with these insanely long names are so confused! Maybe it's just an age thing, 3rd grade,but they were filling out these test forms and they kept putting all their names on the forms. This one little girl put like 7 names. And then just all the different two-name names that were long as all hell. One class had three different combinations of Lily Rose(first-last, first-middle, first-secondmiddle.. it was nauseating.

But then of course I have a name that I can't pick a middle name for. I love the name Uilliam, nickname Liam, and I also like Anthony Patrick/Patrick Anthony in honor of closest my maternal uncles. I like Ulliam Anthony Uilliam Anthony Patrick, and Uilliam Patrick Anthony, but not Uilliam Patrick; it's more important that Patrick be used than Anthony, though. Uilliam Edward is a possibility as well.

Anyway,I've also really been pondering the hyphenated name thing because our wedding is coming up and I need to make my decision. (Interestingly, my future mother-in-law told me tonight that it wasn't until she ran for the school board when the kids were older that she dropped the hyphenated part of her last name and just went by her husband name; I find this especially interesting as I was worried I'd get flack for hyphenating and also my fiance's sister is dropping her maiden name and I found it funny that I thought she was copying her mother, trying to be traditional, but her mother wasn't traditional at all. Anywho..). I'd thought for a long time that I wanted to hyphenate mine and our children's because our daughter's is hyphenated and I want us all to share a last name and I feel too uncomfortable to change it posthumously. I am thinking of keeping both my name and his, but not hyphenating and doing the same for our children. Can you even have two last name or would it be a second middle name? What if you already have a second middle name, lol? I'm also thinking of hyphenating, but going by his last name, socially and perhaps professionally, not sure. Anyway.. this is so silly. I really want him to hyphenate too, but he doesn't want to, but he's open to having my name as a second middle name/second last name. He doesn't care if I change my name or not or what our children's names are.. is it silly that I want him to care? Oh well. I've half a mind (not really) to tell him fine, then they all just get my last name. To make matters worse, I've for years wanted to add my mother's maiden name, which she goes by, as a second middle/first last name, and maybe pass that on to my kids instead of my father's name, and I'd planned to before my daughter was born, but then she was premature and it just didn't happen.


Last thing.-- I know there is a trend of old-fashioned names coming in to fashion, but what do you all think of the name Ezel? My Great Aunt Ezel just died and I liked her a lot and I'd like to use a name fro my fatehr's side of the family for at least one of our kids. My other options are Opal and Pearl, but I thought another 'gem' name might be cute. On gem names, my fiance and I like the name 'Prism', which could work to fill that desire. I know, many of you have expressed a distaste for Prism. I like it, but I really didn't think it was going to happen, but whenever we talk names, my fiance just says how much he loves Prism (I came up with it).

And I know some of you hate having last names as first name, I do to a degree myself, but what do you think of the names Kirtley or Spillane as a first name? Spillane could also be a mn for Uilliam-- hit two birds with one stone, since both of my uncles are Spillanes. Kirtley is my future mother-in-law's maiden name, which I think might be interesting on a boy.

Comments

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I've never head of Uilliam before, but it's going on my list of favorite male U-names.

On the last name thing, it's funny that you should mention it, because I was just discussing my new niece's last name. My sister decided to hyphenate her daughter's last name, father's-ours, and I was imagining how annoying it will be to fill in all those bubbles on standardized tests.

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

Can you even have two last names or would it be a second middle name?

I knew a professor who tried to have just two last names. Apparently she had a LOT of trouble with it. I worked at the library and she broke down and just registered her account by her final last name, not with the double last name.

Prism sounds like Prison
Not really feeling Kirtley or Spillane myself.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

Four+ names ruin the utility of a name. It's just the parents being full of themselves.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

my son has 4 names, one first, two middle, one last... i did this mainly to stop the awful arguments i was having with his father over the last name ("i don't want my son to have a hyphenated last name, NO ONE else does that. EVERYONE names their kids with the father's last name" etc.).

i wouldn't say it was me being full of myself... him, maybe. but he had no control over the middle names, just the first & last, which my son is going to be known by anyway.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Even hyphenated names? Why does it ruin the utility of it? Not many people go by their middle names anyway and in some cultures it's tradition to give more than one middle name. Not arguing for it, just wondering what your rational is.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

It ruins the utility because names are intended mostly for practical use rather than for show. If you had four names, how often would you have to write down all of them? That extra name is just going to hang around, not being used except when it's needed to flounce around and show off.

I don't know where you're from, but in America we use the father's last name. You might just be one of those feminist types and think this is just another form of male oppression that must be rectified because well, it's my baby too. If your husband is cool with that and you don't mind the unsightly and awkward hyphen, then by all means hyphenate away.

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

I think having a family name as a middle name is not only appropriate, but in many cases better than having a random name you happen to like. I babysat for a family wherein all three children had their mother's maiden name as their middle name, which I thought was a great idea. I would consider using my own maiden name as a middle name for a future child (probably a son, though I suppose I could use it on either, since it's definitely going to sound like a surname either way).

[politicking.livejournal.com]

my friend & his brother had their mother's maiden name as middle names.

Brice Hatten L.
Adam Hatten L.

while i wouldn't give my children the same middle name, i am definitely going to give my next son (if i have one) my last name as a middle name again.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a custom in my fiance's family for the women to pass on their maiden names to their daughters. His sister's middle name is Kirtley. I'm seeing Spillane as a middle name, but not as a first. I wrote this when I was really tired, lol, I don't think Spillane would really sound that nice as a first name.. might be interesting, though. I'd considered not having my maiden name, Brown, as a last name and just using it on one of our children for a middle name.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I like Ezel and I love Pearl. I had great aunts named Garnett and Pearl :) Kirtly is interesting too. Would you use the nn Kirt?

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

That's the problem with Kirtley-- I don't like the name Kirt! So it'd have to be Kirtley. Eh, Kirt might grow on me, I just have negative connotations with it.

Hmm.. maybe the gem stone naming trend was in full swing in our grandparent's generation-- my grandmother and all of her sisters had gem names; I think there's one other than Pearl and Opal. Thanks! :)

[j0yous.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend has four names: Josef Thomas Blake M_____. He goes by Blake. Now that he is 18, he has virtually dropped the Thomas. On his diploma, driver's license, bank account, he's just Josef Blake M____. I think having two middle names just became a hassle for him.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

I have four names: Marie Aline Laurie _________. My family is French Catholic, and it was (is?) a tradition for families to give their child the name Marie (or Joseph) after the Virgin Mary and, well, Joseph obviously (so my grandfather was Joseph Yvon Roger _________. Aline is the name of my godmother (also my grandmother), and Laurie is my given name. I never go by Marie Aline Laurie, and when asked about my name, I usually say Laurie Aline ________.

[rainbowpookie.livejournal.com]

I love gem names! My fiancee will never go for them, but I love Prism! I think if both of you love this name, you should definitely use it! I also like Pearl, Ruby, Emerald, Opal, Saphire,Garnet, Amethyst. I especially love Emerald and Ruby out of the seven. From the other side perspective, I don't have a middle name, and everyone always seems confused that there is no middle intial...oh well...I like that it's simpler that way, since my first name is already very unique...