I wouldn’t use mine BUT I love [name_m]Baxter[/name_m] whose MEANING is my actual maiden name. I always thought that was neat. And I love the nn [name_m]Bax[/name_m].
[name_m]How[/name_m] about yours? Your mother’s? Maternal grandmother’s?
[name_m]Doyle[/name_m] and [name_m]Crawford[/name_m] are mine. I would use them as middles. Especially since the [name_m]Doyle[/name_m] line ended. [name_f]My[/name_f] grandparents had seven children, but only one son and he had all daughters!
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name is still my name, but we considered it as a middle before we had children at all and were just discussing names.
[name_f]My[/name_f] surname is one of those old goodies that used to be masculine decades ago but are now almost exclusively thought of as female -as in [name_u]Ashley[/name_u] and [name_u]Meredith[/name_u]-.
In the end we decided that it was a bit corny for our taste. We chose instead to include my surname on the children’s surnames via hyphen and we are quite happy with that.
Mine is [name_u]Howard[/name_u]. It’s usable for a child and [name_m]Howie[/name_m] is a cute nickname but I don’t think I would ever use it. I can be sentimental so I won’t use definitives.
[name_f]My[/name_f] mothers maiden name is beyond unusable.
[name_f]My[/name_f] maternal grandmother’s maiden name is [name_f]Lovely[/name_f]. Honestly, I’d like to use it as a middle name. People toss it around as a possibility for a girl in my family but they’ve never had the guts to use it. The grandmother who had it was the one I was named for as well. I think it would be a nice way to tie together the names.
[name_f]My[/name_f] own maiden name is one of those clunky two-syllable Jewish names in the style of Goldberg, Birnbaum, Greenman, etc. Not terribly attractive as a given name on either a girl or a boy.
[name_f]My[/name_f] middle name is my mother’s maiden name. It’s a ‘real name’ for boys. I don’t plan to use it but I could if I wanted to. On a BOY, preferably.
A last name further back/out in my family tree is Imber (which means ‘ginger’ in Yiddish) I sort of like it as a girl’s name but it’s definitely not common. It’s reminiscent of [name_f]Amber[/name_f]/[name_u]Ember[/name_u]/[name_f]Esther[/name_f] and I like it.
[name_f]My[/name_f] husband’s grandmother’s maiden name was [name_m]Cavanaugh[/name_m], which I don’t hate for a boy.
Two last names that have been recommended to us to use by our moms are [name_m]Tucker[/name_m] and [name_f]McKenna[/name_f], both of which are becoming popular as given names and which we don’t like. One’s from my side and one’s from his, so I’m not being biased.
my maiden name, [name_u]Quinn[/name_u], is completely useable. Although I’m not sure if we will be fitting it into any of our children’s names. If I did, I think i would prefer to use it for a son’s middle name.
[name_f]My[/name_f] middle name, [name_m]Brannon[/name_m], is my maternal grandmother’s maiden name, and will be used as our first born son’s first name.
I can’t use any last names in my family because they are extremely Polish/[name_m]German[/name_m], rhyme with a swear, or just sound weird, but I would consider using a last name as a name (such as [name_m]Jones[/name_m], [name_m]Holmes[/name_m], etc.).
Im not married but my last name now is Sm!th it has been given to boys but I wouldn’t use it. [name_f]My[/name_f] mothers is H0rr3x and isn’t useable neither are my grandmothers (McK3chan!e and C@rruth3rs). I love a lot of surname names but unfortunately there aren’t any usable ones on my family tree.
I’m not married either, but… [name_f]My[/name_f] heritage is Chinese and well, Chinese surnames don’t really work as middles. [name_f]My[/name_f] surname is a common word in another language so it would just be confusing. I like the idea in theory though.
[name_f]My[/name_f] surname is the ever-popular 3llis - so it’s definitely usable. I’ve seen it used on both boys and girls before, and here in Australia, most people pronounce it the same as [name_f]Alice[/name_f] (including me.)
[name_f]My[/name_f] mother’s maiden name isn’t very attractive for either a first or middle name, and it’s also not very common, so I don’t feel comfortable sharing it. However, I will tell you that is does begin with Hog-.
[name_f]My[/name_f] maternal grandmother has two maiden names, her birth name was Cl3we3r and isn’t something that I would use, but I don’t think it’s completely unusable. Her mother’s next husband then officially adopted her (before she knew her name), and thus her last name was changed to Wr!ght, which I also don’t think is unusable, but wouldn’t use myself.
[name_f]My[/name_f] paternal grandmother was a Good@all, and it’s another name that I don’t see as completely unusable, but wouldn’t use it myself either.
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name is usable ([name_m]Harris[/name_m]) We considered it as a middle name if we had had a boy but in the end decided we would honour my brother instead. (A boy would have been [name_u]Lawrence[/name_u] [name_m]Gavin[/name_m]). We although thought about using [name_f]Harriet[/name_f] for a girl but didn’t feel like suited our surname. Other surnames in my family include Batters, [name_m]Bond[/name_m] and Pettigrew. None of those are really usable!
Yes ([name_m]Davis[/name_m]). I don’t mind it, but I wouldn’t use it. I much prefer my mum’s maiden name ([name_m]Wesley[/name_m]), or my grandmother’s ([name_u]Kato[/name_u]).
I’m not married, but my surname is definitely unusable. I have considered using some other family names as middle names as future middle names just because I love the connection to family. [name_m]Jamieson[/name_m] is a possibility; there would probably be spelling issues, but at least there wouldn’t be pronunciation problems (that I can think of). [name_m]Cooper[/name_m] is another one that I would have as a possibility, but I think the chicken coop pronunciation would drive me up a wall.
Mine is usable, but definitely not with the style of names I like. It’s very common (both as a first and surname here in the UK), in the Islamic community (my dad’s side of the family are Muslim, but I’m not). It’s the same thing with my dad’s/grandad’s names and my second middle, which also doesn’t work with my names. [name_f]My[/name_f] mum’s maiden name is completely unusable, although I wish it was, since my 2 cousins on my mum’s side are both girls. But my maternal grandma’s maiden name is okay (though I’m not sure I’d use it); it sounds a bit like forest, and is way closer to my name style.
Mine isn’t really usable. The only one in my family I can think of as being usable is my great-grandma’s maiden name, [name_u]Parker[/name_u]. I don’t feel like I can use it anymore though because it doesn’t feel special. 
[name_f]My[/name_f] surname isn’t usable, but my Mum’s (Tob!n) definitely is. [name_f]My[/name_f] Grandmother’s maiden name ([name_u]Carroll[/name_u]) was used as middle name for my Mum, my sister and myself.
Mine is- [name_m]Harris[/name_m]. I actually have a coworker that recently named their son this. I had floated it out to my husband once as a possible boy name, but it was a big NO.
Not my actual maiden name, but if you cut of the last 2 letters of it, you actually get a fairly common boys name.
I have thought of using my maiden name as a first name. I did decide to hyphenate my maiden and husband’s surname but I think it’s still do-able (no, my kid would not have 2 last names, just my husband’s).
I have a friend who said she would use her maiden name if she had a boy (common FN for boys).
In my husband’s family, it’s a tradition to use the mother’s maiden name as a middle name for the first son (regardless of whether it’s an attractive sounding name or not, apparently…his grandpa’s middle name is a doozy). We do plan on following the tradition if we ever have a son. [name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name, while not something I would consider as a first name, makes a fine middle name I think.
[name_f]My[/name_f] mother’s maiden name is B@ker and her mother’s maiden name is P1nkerton, so neither is particularly usable as a given name. We’re not close to my mom’s family though, so I wouldn’t really go there for inspiration anyway. [name_f]My[/name_f] mom was in foster care as a child and the family that took care of her had the surname [name_m]Patrick[/name_m], which we are planning on using if we have a son (not strictly for that reason though, I didn’t find out that was their name until after my husband and I had already discussed it as a possibility, but I do like the significance).
[name_f]My[/name_f] dad’s mother’s maiden name was N@koneczny, so that’s obviously not an option LOL! We used her first name for our daughter’s middle name.
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name was Cummings. That is completely unusable.