TLDR: baby is four months old and has a perfectly fine middle name that has just never felt “right”. Would it be silly to bother legally changing a perfectly fine middle name? If you are for legally changing a middle name, what are your unbiased opinions on the name [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m]? [name_m]Or[/name_m] [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] [name_m]Davidson[/name_m]? [name_m]Or[/name_m] also open to other suggestions!
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If your child’s middle name has never felt “right”, do you think it’s worth the trouble of legally changing it?
I know, you thought you had finally heard the last from me and our boy name indecision. 
We welcomed our second boy, C|yde Th€odore, earlier this year.
I LOVE his first name, and it suits him so well.
But we couldn’t agree on a middle and made a rushed decision to pick one to be discharged from the hospital. He’s four months old now and I still just randomly get hung up on thinking about it. But it feels like because it is just his middle name it would be silly to bother changing? And I don’t dislike his middle name. Something just feels off about it. Several people have mentioned it’s a tongue twister with our last name.
I call our oldest son by his first and middle name on a daily basis. If I ever even try to use our second’s middle name I get stuck on it and for some reason it almost feels like I’m talking about a different person?
Some other contenders that got vetoed:
I fell in love with the name [name_m]Edwin[/name_m] when we were expecting him. [name_f]My[/name_f] husband hated it as a first name option. I loved it as a middle with [name_m]Clyde[/name_m], but my husband said and still says no to [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] [name_m]Edwin[/name_m]. [name_f]My[/name_f] husband DOES like [name_m]Edison[/name_m] and did like the combo with [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] but vetoed it for some inexplicable reason.
[name_m]Clyde[/name_m] [name_m]Maxwell[/name_m] was a strong contender for a long time. We considered [name_m]Alexander[/name_m], [name_m]Anderson[/name_m], or [name_m]Leon[/name_m] and vetoed all because they were honor names from different sides of the family and it was causing unnecessary drama to pick one over the others.
I liked [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] [name_m]Davidson[/name_m] and thought it would be a little funny/sentimental because my husband is named [name_m]David[/name_m] and it means son of [name_m]David[/name_m]. He said no to that.
A) is it ridiculous to consider or bother legally changing a middle name, especially when his current middle name is a perfectly fine and classic name?
B) IF we did go through with changing it, what are your bluntly honest thoughts on [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m]?
I know it doesn’t flow particularly well (it actually does flow well when said with our surname, though), but let me explain.
At the very beginning of my pregnancy, I fell in love with the name [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m]. It just grew more and more endearing to me. [name_f]My[/name_f] husband unequivocally vetoed it, and I do agree that it is sort of a lot as a first name because the Charolette’s [name_m]Web[/name_m] association is so strong. I pitched it as a middle combo with [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] and my husband initially said “cute but I don’t like it for some reason.” So I dropped it.
Now having known this little guy for four months, it feels like such a fitting middle name for him. [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] is absolutely his first name, I have zero doubts or regrets about that. But, yall. This baby. He snorts more than any other human that has ever lived. Like, everyyyyone who meets him comments and laughs on how much this child snorts and grunts. Like a room full of people belly laughing over his grunting and snorting, every time. At first I thought he would surely outgrow it after the initial newborn phase passed because all newborns kind of sound like little piglets. Nope. He is a snorter and grunter. To the point that I think that he needs to be evaluated by an ENT.
“Sir-Snorts-a-Lot” quickly became one of his most common nicknames. In addition to Sir-Snorts-a-Lot And Clydey-Widey, I also frequently call him “My [name_m]Little[/name_m] Piglet”, [name_m]Little[/name_m] Piggy, Grunts, etc.
So when the conversation of a different middle name came back up, [name_m]Clyde[/name_m] [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m] actually feels super fitting. I love the name [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m] itself, and it feels like a semi-subtle nod to this very endearing feature. I love love love his little snorts and it’s something that I know we will talk fondly of and laugh about when he is older and no longer my little baby. From my searches it looks like the meaning of the name [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m] is debated to either mean “wild boar” or “willful”, which both seem fitting in different ways (we make very strong-willed children, haha).
Thoughts? Sorry for another novel. 
I find the name connection to CW really cute!
Not sure how I forgot about that, but it makes me feel more content with our choice!