MIA for quite a while. A Tragedy in Names...

[a11]

One more thing, I don’t think the two middle names thing is that big of a deal. I have a middle name (after my mother) but my two sisters have no middle name. I’ve asked them about it and they’ve said they’ve never felt slighted at all by the matter. I guess everyone is different but I doubt [name]Annabel[/name] will mind. But if you are worried about it, I like the pp’s idea of giving [name]Annabel[/name] another middle.

[tavn]

@krismichelle

I also very much like [name]Ramona[/name] [name]Violet[/name] / [name]Violet[/name] [name]Ramona[/name] as my grandmother’s mother was named [name]Viola[/name], and the violet has significance to my family. My son is very much stuck on [name]Phoebe[/name], as am I to possibly a lesser extent. He seems to have inherited my passion for names, lol.

I can’t decide how I feel about using [name]Ramona[/name] as a first name. We purposely did not use family names in the first slot to allow our children to have their own names free of previous familial associations. [name]Owen[/name] is different in that respect, as it isn’t after a single person, but a surname.

If that’s the case, I’d go for [name]Violet[/name] [name]Ramona[/name]. She has her own first name, but it’s influenced by [name]Viola[/name], which is beautiful, btw. And her middle name is after her grandmother.

And then for a boy, I think [name]Owen[/name] [name]Ramon[/name] works great. Again, he has his own name (in honor of a family surname…which is where my husband’s middle name came from) and [name]Ramon[/name] is still in honor of his grandmother. [name]Both[/name] [name]Violet[/name] and [name]Owen[/name] fit well with [name]Caleb[/name] and [name]Annabel[/name].

[mika13]

@krismichelle

Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions and condolences. The name we had settled on before the current circumstances was [name]Phoebe[/name], and I’m not sure that my almost 4 year old will let go of it. I really love the suggestion of [name]Ramona[/name] [name]Blythe[/name]. Would it be odd to have one child with two middle names while the others only have two, as in [name]Phoebe[/name] [name]Ramona[/name] [name]Blythe[/name]? [name]Phoebe[/name] was also a name that my grandmother loved.

One of my sister’s has 4 daughters: [name]Elizabeth[/name] [name]Marie[/name] (who goes by [name]Beth[/name]), [name]Brittany[/name] [name]Renee[/name], [name]Sierra[/name] [name]Audrey[/name], and finally (born in [name]December[/name]) [name]Emilee[/name] [name]Justine[/name] [name]Matty[/name]. Her last daughter got 3 names because a very close friend of her father killed himself shortly before she was born, so they added [name]Matty[/name] to her name in honor of [name]Matthew[/name]. So I’d say it’s definitely okay.

My little sister is the youngest of 6 in a your’s, mine, and our’s, and she has 3 names courtesy of being adopted from [name]China[/name]. She’s [name]Reese[/name] [name]Maleah[/name] KaiJin (which is her Chinese name). She’s the only one of 6 with 3 names. It’s definitely reasonable when circumstances change.