[name]Just[/name] wondering how everyone feels: how many middle names can you give a child before it starts to seem ridiculous?
I think 2 is the max. [name]Uma[/name] [name]Thurman[/name]'s recent daughter has too many.
I can’t really see the appeal of more than one middle name, unless you really, really want to use family names. But I think two middle names is generally fine. Any more than that seems a little strange/possibly pretentious.
We do two for our kids and I love it. For me, personally, one if nice, two is perfect and anymore than that is over the top, [name]IMO[/name]. (Though, I have come across 3 middle name combos on occasion that I do honestly appreciate, but it’s very rare, it starts sounding like a list of names after two).
That’s a thread I made awhile ago, complete with a poll 
I naturally always think one middle is the way to go, but I am currently considering two middles for a certain combo, I think anymore than two is too many!
Growing up I knew a boy with four! It was a little ridiculous, since most of our friends (myself included) only had one. Any kind of document requiring a middle name would never be able to hold that many characters, so he’d usually just use the first middle and leave out the rest. That being said, I really have a thing for two middles. [name]Ever[/name] since I can remember I’ve been jealous of those with two and I think that when I do have my own kids they will more than likely have two.
I like 2 middle names! My kids will both have 2 mns.
Two max. Two middle names can sound very good with the first name and last name, but any more and it starts to sound ridiculous. I have a few friends with three middle names and it’s just like… why? You can’t even fit all those names on any official forms, documents, cards, etc.
Two middle names max.
Unless you’re a royal, it’ll look stupid with more than two middle names.
More than 3, but I think there are ways/ reasons to have multiple middle names and not have it seem like a joke.
Honestly, though, I’d be happy enough not using middle names at all.
Two for ordinary people, three maybe four for royals. But I think royals get away with more because they never or almost never use last names. And no matter how many, if it doesn’t flow even one is too much to me.
My husband’s family and mine both use just one middle. We’ve chosen to give or kids two, both family names. I love the sound of two middles but that’s my personal preference. I think that two can still be too many when people get uber creative. That said, it’s your child and middle names are so rarely used that that really is the place to do it.
I’ve never met anyone with more than two middles so I’d probably draw a line there.
Two is great, but three is just over the top. It is way harder to find a combo of four given names that flow well versus just three. But then again, it depends on the length of the names.
lol, I completely agree. I won’t go beyond two MNs. I actually love the idea of two MNs, one just doesn’t seem like enough. On the other hand, I know a couple people with three MNs, and while I wouldn’t advise it, if there’s a good reason for using them, I see no problem with it. I absolutely wouldn’t go beyond three MNs, though.
This exactly!
I actually quite liked [name]Uma[/name] [name]Thurman[/name]'s daughter’s name and I like [name]Uma[/name]'s explanation for giving her all the names, that it’s probably gonna be her last kid so she was just giving her all of her favourite names. Also I think the names were rad and not Hollywood-silly. However, under normal circumstances so many names would just be over-the-top ridiculous.
We have a [name]Count[/name] (was a [name]Prince[/name] till he married a commoner) here in Denmark with 10 (!) names: [name]Count[/name] Ingolf [name]Christian[/name] [name]Frederik[/name] [name]Knud[/name] [name]Harald[/name] Gorm [name]Gustav[/name] [name]Viggo[/name] [name]Valdemar[/name] Aage of Rosenborg. His mum, [name]Princess[/name] [name]Caroline[/name]-[name]Mathilde[/name] [name]Louise[/name] [name]Dagmar[/name] [name]Christine[/name] [name]Maud[/name] [name]Augusta[/name] [name]Ingeborg[/name] [name]Thyra[/name] [name]Adelaide[/name], had just as many 
I’m using 1 middle for my son, but if it came down to it, I’d just as soon use no middle as 2. So I feel like 2 is pushing it, but it depends greatly on what the names are, how long they are, personal significance (like I can see the merits of giving the child his/her own first with a middle honoring each family), etc. More than 2 is completely unnecessary and burdensome, imo.