In all my time on naming boards I have never heard of three sisters who share the same middle name. Yesterday a woman in the shopping centre struck up a conversation with me and naturally the conversation turned to the names of our grandchildren. Is this a first? Their middle name is [name]Louise[/name] after their mother.
I think that is really weird.
What do you think?
rollo
It is really weird. At least the name honors someone.
I know someone who has four siblings and all five children have first names with five letters and all five of them have the middle name [name]Lee[/name]. Girls and boys! The three I remember are [name]Betsy[/name] [name]Lee[/name], Detta [name]Lee[/name], and [name]Monty[/name] [name]Lee[/name]. Crazy.
I know a set of three brothers who all have the same middle name. It’s their father’s first name. I was confused by it at first, but I guess it isn’t terribly uncommon. Some people are more into the process of naming (like us on this forum) and some people are just way less into it (people who give all of their children the same middle name, I assume). It seems to me as if their parents just weren’t interested in bothering with putting much thought into their middle names, but I agree with greyer, at least it’s honoring.
my sisters and I all have the same middle name. so does my mom and her sisters.
I wasn’t aware that it wasn’t normal until several years ago.
My dad and my uncle have the same middle name. It’s an old family surname that’s been passed down. Now it’s one of my brother’s two middle names as well, and I want to use it when I have kids, if I ever have a son.
That is STRANGE
In this old book series I used to read (The Great [name]Brain[/name] series) the three boys in the family all had the same middle name ([name]Dennis[/name]) to remember an ansestor or something. They called eachother by their first and middle initials sometimes: J.D., T.D., abd S.D.! That I would love to see! (Oooh, that rhymes ;-))
I don’t think it’s that strange. I’ve met families with children who all had the same middle name - usually their mother’s maiden name.
Doesn’t seem strange at all to me. My sister and I have the same mn - the same as both of my parents. [name]One[/name] niece and one nephew were also given the mn.
I am totally in favour of using mother’s maiden name as a middle for all siblings, I love the way that it connects the maternal line to that generation but imo to have three sisters with the middle name of [name]Louise[/name] is very [name]OTT[/name].
rollo
I don’t think it is lazy, I think sometimes one name is maybe just better than all the rest for whatever reason. I have a large extended family and there are many women and girls with the middle name [name]Rose[/name]. The cousins who share it love it and it has special meaning to almost everyone in the family. I would consider using it even though it has been used several times.
I know a couple of sib-sets who have the same middle name - [name]Rebecca[/name] [name]Jane[/name], [name]Bonita[/name] [name]Jane[/name] and [name]Courtney[/name] [name]Jane[/name].
I can’t remember all the first names of the other set but the middle name was Edwards - there was [name]Katherine[/name] Edwards, [name]Nathan[/name] Edwards and 2 others but don’t recall their FN (last name started with McC).
me and my mum have the same and so do my brother and my dad but i think having siblings with the same name is odd
I have a friend who is due to have her second son this month. Their first son is named [name]Micah[/name] [name]Stone[/name]. Now they are planning to name the new baby [name]Judah[/name] and the only MN her DH will suggest is [name]Stone[/name]. I have pleaded with her not to give that baby the same middle name.
I think that there’s a huge difference between family members (like parents and children or cousins) sharing a middle name and siblings sharing a middle name. A parent passing down a middle name or family members sharing a name doesn’t seem odd to me in the slightest. Siblings sharing a middle name does honestly seem a bit odd to me, but not really problematic.
My mother always told me about a family she grew up near where ALL the children had the first name [name]Mary[/name] and instead went by their middle names like [name]Mary[/name] [name]Alice[/name] was [name]Alice[/name] or [name]Mary[/name] [name]May[/name] was just [name]May[/name] and the boys who went by [name]Paul[/name] [name]Joseph[/name] and [name]Matthew[/name] were actually [name]Mary[/name] [name]Paul[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Joseph[/name] and [name]Mary[/name] [name]Matthew[/name] that sounds very weird to me
On one side of my friends family four cousins share the same middle name of [name]Sophia[/name] as a tribute or honour name for their aunt who died as a teenager, every first girl born in the family from each of her siblings is named ______ [name]Sophia[/name], there’s [name]Milla[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] ([name]Millie[/name]), [name]Kate[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] ([name]Katie[/name]), [name]Juliet[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] ([name]Etta[/name]) and [name]Fiona[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] (Fi-fia) I think it’s a nice sweet way to remember their sister and have their children have a special connection
I know three sisters, all with the mn [name]Elizabeth[/name]. I always thought they could mix it up and use variations like [name]Megan[/name] [name]Elise[/name], [name]Nicole[/name] [name]Isabella[/name], and [name]Emma[/name] [name]Lillian[/name] or something… But who am I to get in the middle of family traditions? 
As a name lover, though, that kind of tradition would be a buzz-kill when it actually came time to name a baby!
[name]Kimora[/name] [name]Lee[/name] Simmons gave all three of her children her middle name…[name]Ming[/name] [name]Lee[/name], Aoki [name]Lee[/name], & [name]Kenzo[/name] Lee. I don’t mind it, if it has some significance. I like it better than what former boxer [name]George[/name] Foreman did… all five of his boys have his exact name, [name]George[/name] [name]Jr[/name]. [name]George[/name] III, [name]George[/name] IV, [name]George[/name] V, & [name]George[/name] [name]VI[/name].
I really don’t mind it at all if there’s significance. I agree with pp’s - to me I love names so much I wouldn’t want to pass up opportunities to use new ones, but I can totally understand people with a different approach just using a meaningful name repeatedly if it worked well.
There is a boy in my class whose dad’s name is [name]Kenny[/name] [name]Lane[/name], the first son is [name]Kenny[/name] [name]Lane[/name] II, the second son is [name]Kenny[/name] [name]Lane[/name] III (which is my classmate), the first daughter is [name]Kendra[/name] Shirlane, and the second daughter is Keundra (pr. Key-un-druh), but I don’t know her mn. Pretty crazy, right?