Multiple Middle Names: Yehh or nehh?

[peasseblossom.livejournal.com]

My sister is pregnant with her first child and we have spent hours going over names together. Just throwing ideas out there and trying to come up with middle names that would work with the names she seems to like.. The only issue, she is like our mother [See below and you will understand]. She can not make up her mind about middle names, and at the rate she is going, if she wants to use all the names she likes on future children with out them having 8 middle names or more, she's going be the old lady who lives in a shoe.

So, my question is how many middle names is just to much?

My siblings names are [From oldest to youngest]:
Kristie Lynn
Jennifer Marie
Sara Diane Samantha [me]
Ashley Nicole Noel
Joshua Aaron Jerome Matthew
Charlee Alexandria Rebbecca Mary Alice


As you can see from the above list my mom started out small and decided to keep tacking on names when she knew she was coming to
the end of her child bearing years. Lol. My poor baby sister got it the worst. Trying fitting all that on any form or your Social Security card.

What do you think? How many is to many.


Just a funny note: When I was born, I guess giving your child more than one middle name wasn't very common. Because I have two middle names the hospital made a mistake and issued my parents 3 birth certificates thinking that I was triplets. Lol. They recieved one for Sara, one for Diane, and one for Samantha. They also mistakenly recieved 3 social security numbers for me as well.

Comments

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

I am fine with 2 middle names although I don't think I will ever use that many just because I like so few names that it would be impossible to find more than one I wanted to put in the middle spot.

But I think that more than 2 is too many. I have a friend with 3 middle names and I think that's too much. 2 doesn't really bother me, especially because many people use the second middle name as a place to honor a family member or something.

[stellarichards6.livejournal.com]

i think more than 2 is a bit much. with 2, it can sound more or less like when someone has a hyphenated last name which is totally within the realm of normal/ordinary, know what i mean? of course the syllable count would play a factor in this, but that's common for any naming situation. my niece has 2 middle names, one being my sister's mother's maiden name (really, half-sister but we dont like to get technical about it) so it's almost as if she had a hyphenated last name.

your sister had it rough, but there was a chick on lj that named her daughter w/ a bunch of really out there names, and the initials spelled out paradoxal if i remember correctly. that was special.

i'm living in a country where having even 1 middle name is odd, so i'm going to have fun when i go to register my kids! the problem here is that if you have a first and middle name, they always call you by your first and middle as if your first was a compound name (like maria-teresa, not maria *space* teresa) since they dont have the idea of a "middle" name that yeah, is on the official stuff but isn't necessarily what you go by everyday.

[shortbutfast.livejournal.com]

i'm not a fan of middle names in general, it isn't a default thing in my culture. if i were in the situation, i may or may not give one. if i did, it would definitely be just 1 but if people like the concept of 2 or 3 or it's a cultural tradition, why not?

[jordle.livejournal.com]

My kids will have two middle names each. I love names so much that I don't want to waste opportunities to use them! But I think anything over 2 is overkill.

I also think all kids in a family should have the same number of middle names. Drives me crazy when one child has one middle name and other has three.

[cybeleadam.livejournal.com]

I have three middle names, which is one more than what's usual here (Belgium). I consider it acceptable (mostly because I'm used to it, I guess) but more would definitely be too much, in my opinion.

[night-sky-dream.livejournal.com]

I think three middle names at the most, only because if I personally used lots of middle names for my kids I'd probably end up forgetting all the names lol.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I think two middle names is perfectly fine, three is a little too much but acceptable and more than three is just over the top, in my opinion. But hey, to each their own!
I'm from The Netherlands, and here two middle names is very common.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I have one middle name and my brother has two. I think one or two is fine, three is really pushing it...and more that three is just OTT in my opinion.

[lalazizara.livejournal.com]

im not help..but yay a fellow sara!!!

[muggleish.livejournal.com]

IMP, Probaly after two. :)

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

I think any more than 2 middle names is too much. I like two middle names, but it's not a tradition in our family, so we're not doing it.

[fatinah-aila.livejournal.com]

As far as i know there are only two family members with middle names. The middle name is my grandfathers name as both were born some months after his death.
In another branch of my family there are two or three Ali Osmans but this is a traditional combo like Mehmet Ali and is often seen as one name not as two names.
It's the name of their (grand)grandfather.


I think giving your child a middle name became a new trend among new parents.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

This

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

One is good IMHO, 2 is pushing it but whatevs, 3+ is way too many.

[soundofbusiness.livejournal.com]

Generally, I like just one middle name. Two are okay as long as the name flows together and doesn't sound like it drags on, but anything beyond that usually sounds off to me.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

I think one middle name is necessary, two is okay, three is getting into the excessive. So one or two is fine. Anything more or less isn't cool.

[mela-chan.livejournal.com]

I think more than two is too many. However, your sister should check with the state vital statistics office to see if there is a limit. When my cousin had her daughter in South Dakota, the state didn't allow more than one middle name, and when her twins were born the state required that a child share a last name with one of it's parents. The laws/regulations may have changed, but it never hurts to be sure.

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big fan of more than one middle name, but if you're going to have more than...leave off after two; three, plus is pushing it.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

Neh.

There has to be a line, and I choose to draw it at 3 names.