Curious middle names

There’s no real “point” of a middle name regardless of whether it honours someone or not. But people might use them… To use a name that you like that didn’t make top spot To give the child the option of another name to use if their first name doesn’t work for them Or just to follow convention

I don't know I don't have a middle name and have never really been for them, but my sons middle name is after his grandfather so just wondering what everyone else's take is on this

To make your other half feel like they have input 😂

The old fashioned or traditional naming is that the first name is the baby’s, the middle name is the mother’s and the last name is the father’s.

@Kirsty HAHA 😂😂

@Amalia oh wow I never knew this!!

I don't have a middle name, and neither does my husband, but our girl is half English and half Turkish, so she has a name from both languages to help her identify with both.

The middle name used to be the name you would go by with your first name being the Christian name

@Kirsty this really made me laugh 🤣

First name used to be like a “public” name (the kind strangers/friends/colleagues/etc use) and middle was the name family would use

@Kirsty no truer words spoken 😂😂

@Kirsty Me except I got the middle name choice because my husband wanted to pass down the first name John for our son (so boring 😭 but I get the tradition lol) So he goes by Sterling (his middle)!

There’s no point. Like last names are based off of jobs.

I won’t use family names because so many have been over used on my side of the family. My children will still have middle names, not everyone needs to be named after family members.

There's not really a specific point. It's just personal preference. My partner's family has a long standing tradition that the first born son has the middle name Andrew, so from as soon as we found out I was pregnant it was set that we'd follow that tradition if the baby was a boy (which he is.) It's not after any specific family member but my partner, his father, and several generations beyond them all have it. But our other son just has a random middle name that we liked and discussed but didn't feel right for his first name. I love how both of their names flow with the middle names, it just sounds nicer to me than only a first and last. They also both have slightly more uncommon first names but very traditional middle names that also both come with extra nicknames so I like that they have options when they're older