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[smasharash.livejournal.com]

What are your views on giving children two middle names (three names + Last name)?

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[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

It doesn't bother me at all. I know a few people who are quite vehemently against it, but I honestly don't see the problem--middle names are scarcely used at any rate, so it's not acutely pivotal. Even if it is laden and tangled or even useless, it's not as if you're calling the child all of those names on a daily basis. I say go for it.

[miarosso.livejournal.com]

i wanted to do it for my daughter, but her birth was so hectic and crazy that i completely didn't even CONSIDER it at the time we were filling out her birth certificate- and i'd feel guilty doing it for other kids when i didn't do it for her! i love the idea, though :0

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

i've considered it before.

i don't think it's a *huge* deal... on a lot of documents, you don't have to list your middle name at all.

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

also, i see it as a possible advantage if they end up hating their first name, they can use one of their middle names. haha :D

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a bad idea. In my case, I might end up doing it when I have kids, because I'm big into the idea of giving names to honor other people... so my first daughter will have my mother's name as her middle name, and depending on the situation and stuff, possibly like her father's mother's name as a second middle name or somethng.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

yeah, I'm dong that too, but I will probably run out of people to honor with the number of kids I plan on having. especially since some people in our famiilies have the same name (like both our dads are named Thomas, so one kid with the middle name Thomas and we've got both grampas down.)

to the OP: I really don't like the idea. it's pretty much a waste of names since most people don't use their middle name much anyway.

unless you give your kid a really crappy first name, then when they grow up to hate it, they have two choices of other names to be called.

[amandavanessa.livejournal.com]

I have three names and I hate it.

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

What are your three names? And is there a reason that you have an extra name (like to honour someone)? And why do you hate it? Sorry, so many questions!

[amandavanessa.livejournal.com]

Amanda Vanessa Victoria ________.

I have them all because my mother couldn't choose. None of them honor anyone. I'm the oldest of five and all my siblings only have one middle name.

[eat-a-rainbow.livejournal.com]

i like it a lot. :) 've actually planned on doing it with all my kids, but we'll see, the only problem in my mind is when it comes to getting IDs and licenses. they have to (usually) pick just one.

[dodecahedron.livejournal.com]

no they don't.
I have 5 names and my name on my license is just unually long.

For standardized tests and things like that, you normally have to pick one to be your "official" middle name.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

My DH has three names (all family names) and dislikes it. Despite the fact that his first + first middle + last initials spell out an unpleasant word, he always sticks with these rather than hassle with the second middle name too.

[iwanttobemyself.livejournal.com]

I love it. partly because I have 2 myself. :) some names just work with 2 middle names.

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

What are your names? (Haha that sounds like a really strange question, like you have multiple personalities or something)Sorry, What is your name..?

[iwanttobemyself.livejournal.com]

Aline Marie Elizabeth. :)

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

I don't see the point. It's just unnecessary. I feel no connection to my middle name, the only purpose I feel it serves is to help distinguish me from all the other Susie Smiths out there. (That's not my name but it's about as common.) I dislike it by itself though, and it doesn't feel like my name the way the first does. I think I'd be annoyed if I had ANOTHER useless name in there. There's just no reason for it, IMO, and it just makes it look cluttered.

[muliebrity.livejournal.com]

But not everyone feels that way about their middle name. My middle name is that of my much-beloved maternal grandmother, and I identify with it quite strongly. I think it just depends on the name/names and why they were chosen.

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know a lot of people like their middle names. My partner despises his first name and goes by his middle name, so it's definitely important to him. I just think it starts to sound cluttered when you add in even more.

[knightanika.livejournal.com]

I love it. I love picking out a whole meaningful name. my baby cousin has 2 middle names. Valerie Ella Michelle and she's the first in the family to ever have 2 middle name and it goes great with her last name :)

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Unnecessary. I barely have use for one middle name.

And it can seem pretentious, a list of names, like the baby is royalty or something.

[composure.livejournal.com]

It's too much of a mouthful for me. I always feel sorry for little kids who can't ponounce all the names they have. And they take up too much room on a birth certificate.

[megan-annelise.livejournal.com]

I love the idea :) I have two middle names [Megan Colleen Annelise] and as a kid I thought it was kind of cool because everyone else had one.

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

I really like that idea. I definitely think I'll be doing that in the future.

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

I think it's fine if that's what people want to do. If I ever have a kid I probably wouldn't use two names though. Not unless there were three final names that my partner and I really loved and couldn't part with.

[pfratz.livejournal.com]

I don't find anything wrong with it. I have two middle names - Viva Rose. I kind of like it, though in school I always said, "but my middle intialS are VR!" (standardized testing crap lol)

[pfratz.livejournal.com]

First name is Miranda. I see that you were asking (I read comments after I posted ;)

[iljjc.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with it. But, you'd have to consider how long the full name would be... Then again, I have to use my two last names much more than my child would use their two middle names.

One of my best friends, as well as her eleven siblings, has two middle names. And, in my opinion, reading a list of the names is like a lesson in Bad Name Combinations(not to mention the fact that the first names are unique C names), but I think if you pick the right names it can be very pretty. :)

[muliebrity.livejournal.com]

I don't mind it as long as all 4 names (f/m/m/l) flow together. Any more than 2 mn's is pushing it, though.

[the-theorist.livejournal.com]

I love the idea!

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

I think it's excessive, but in the grand scheme of things, giving a child 2 middle names bothers me less than kr8tiv spellings! ;p

[simplymelodious.livejournal.com]

All 4 of my children have three names, my eldest daughter has a hyphenated first name though.