Siblings with the same middle name

[sal_amanda]

What do people think about giving siblings the same middle name?  I just read that Boston Rob and Amber from Survivor (and the Amazing Race) just had a second daughter.  The first is Lucia Rose and the second is Carina Rose.  I personally think it's kind of boring and uninspired to give both your kids the same middle name.
 

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[cairtirnin.livejournal.com]

My grandmother did it with her kids. Her daughters middle names were Marie and her sons middle names were Gerard. To make it even sillier my aunt is Suzanne Marie and my mom is Ann Marie. My grandmother is Mary Ann. There's not much imagination there. I have never liked it.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds really confusing. Does your name have Ann or Marie in it too? (or did your mom drop the trend, lol)

My family is big on having matching initials rather than names. An example is middle names of Alexander and Anne on siblings. But the first names are totally different.

[cairtirnin.livejournal.com]

Thankfully my mom dropped the the tradition with me, but she managed to accidentally give me the same initials as she does.

[my-lil-bon-bon.livejournal.com]

I had the same initals as my dad (until I got married) and I loved it!

[queenof1000days.livejournal.com]

My two cousins on my mom's side and I have the same middle name. I think it's boring and shows a complete lack of imagination.

[theljfromheck.livejournal.com]

I like too many different names to use the same one. One of my friends used Rose as a middle name for her daughters too.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

I think it's boring.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who comes from a family where the tradition is to give the kids their parents' names as middle names. So both her daughters have Danielle as middle names.

Another one of my friend comes from a family who give Michael as a middle name to every male child. It's their ancestor's name or something like that...

Personally I couldn't care less for middles names. I didn't want my daughter to have one but my husband insisted, so I gave her the female version (Michelle) of her father's middle name (Michel).

[patsfan610.livejournal.com]

My best friend's middle name is Leo, and his brothers and some of his cousins all have Leo as their middle names

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Sylvester Stallone did the same thing with his 3 daughters: Sophia Rose, Sistine Rose, and Scarlet Rose.

I've never known anyone to do that, but my friend my friend Leah's siblings are: Sandy Lee (m., 42), Carrie Leah (in her 30s), Celeste Marie (in her 30s- she may be older than Carrie), Elise Gay (27) and Leah Frances (22). So Leah's mom used Lee, Leah as a middle, and Leah as a first.

[bookity.livejournal.com]

My sis in law has some kind of family tradition of using Fay for girls middle names. It's her mom's middle name, her sister's middle name, and her middle name. So when she and my brother had a daughter, it became her middle name too. I wouldn't want that.

[frost.livejournal.com]

I really don't like it.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a bad thing, but it's definitely boring.

[pinkysmith.livejournal.com]

my grandmother did it with her sons only, giving them her maiden name as their middle name. none of us know why she did that so it just seems like a quirk. usually though it seems quite boring, even if it's meant to be a tribute to someone but esp. when it's a tribute to someone people don't really know or know about.

/rant

[jordle.livejournal.com]

My sisters and I have the same middle name. It's also my Mum's middle name and a cousin (although my aunt says it was purely coincidence). I think it's boring. I hate my name anyway but I really hate that we all have the same name.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I do think it's boring, but it's not really something I care about.

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

My father wanted to give both of my brothers the same middle name, which is sort of a family name at this point, but my mother stopped him and ended up giving my younger brother a very similar name that she thought fit better anyway.

I don't see anything wrong with it. It's not the most creative thing in the world, but it gets the job done and it's not like most people are ever really identified by their middle names. The odds of both girls disliking their first names so much that they want to go by their middle name are extremely low.

[my-lil-bon-bon.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much known by my middle name (only on my mom's side of the family). I have never heard my grandma call me by my first name. Apparently when I was born she told my mom that it was too "American" and she wasn't going to call me it, and she hasn't. But fyi granny, we live in America ;) So I'm not sure if that's the real reason or if it's because my mom didn't pick the name my grandma wanted! I swear I thought there was a point to this...

[autopsycorpses.livejournal.com]

All my male cousins (from multiple sets of parents) all have my grandfather's first name as their middle name. My mother broke the trend with my brother and my grandmother was livid...

[coffeecup37.livejournal.com]

It pisses me off, unless there are two middle names and one of them is a special family name, maiden name or something along those lines.

[fair-haven.livejournal.com]

It seems kinda boring to me when there are so many names out there, but maybe they really it.

My dad has three brothers and three sisters and I think the boys either have the middle name of Lee or Jay (the name of my great grandfather).

The actors, Shawn and Aaron Ashmore, both have the middle name Robert. They are twins, but I still think it would have been name to give them different middle names.

[yearlongwinter.livejournal.com]

My sister and I have the same middle name. It's a family name - which happens to be Rose also lol.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

It feels boring and lazy to me, like they couldn't be bothered to think of something new. I get that it's tradition for some people though.

It's also unfortunate that Boston Rob and Amber procreating.

[sal_amanda]

Ha ha, agreed.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

One of my friends has two sons who share the same middle name. It's their father's middle name as well, so I'm guessing it's a family name.