Does The Middle Name Really Matter?

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I posted here once before with a list of possible names my husband and I liked. We've both settled on Micah for the first name. For years my husband has been talking about naming our potential child Zao. I thought he was joking, we both listen to a band named Zao. His insistence over the years has proved its not a joke. I decided to look up the meaning of the word and found out its used in Greek translations of the bible and means "alive". I like that. I don't like the way the word sounds. I could live with it if it was pronounced like "day-o" with a z... it's not. It's pronounced like z-ahhh-o. Micah Zao Clark just doesn't flow.

My question is... does it really matter? Even if his middle name was something normal like Andrew I wouldn't call him by his first + middle name anyway. Thinking about it, no one outside of my immediate family knows my middle name and I suspect it's that way for a lot of people. It just doesn't come up often. Would it be terrible if he had an ugly name with a nice meaning? Has anyone else here used a middle name that didn't flow with the first or last name just because it had a special meaning to them?

Comments

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

sometimes, middle names are put onto driving licenses, diplomas, credit cards, ect. so if you also hate the way it looks, that might be something to think about. i think it's nice that it has meaning for both of you, and even though it doesn't really flow very well, i don't think it's really a big deal. it's so rare that you hear someone called by all three of their names.