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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.
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