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My Dad wanted to call me Kathleen but my Mum had other ideas so Kathleen became a middle name - so my Dad could sing, 'I'll Bring You Home Again Kathleen', to me at every opportunity! When I was very young I promised myself I would call any daughter after my Grandmother and I did - Rosina is her middle name. Being a keen genealogist I also gave her a double barrelled name containing my maiden name as blokes are a bit short in our family!

I haven't got one but i have traced, Sidney, Oscar and Foakes

Hi Everyone, How about this one. My daughters middle name is ernestine,named after her grandmother. My granddaughter is Amelia,both of these name are very old. My middle name is Elizabeth,we call this the family name. Carrying on the family tradition.After Greatgrandmother,Grandmother,Mother. Other family names,are Joseph,Jack,Charles,Lauren,May, Sophie. regards trish

hi all mine is gwendoline, my mothers name and grandmothers middle name sandra

My parents were going to call me Michelle, then the beatles hit the charts with their song and Mum got fed up with everyone thinking that was why they picked it, so they chose a christian name they thought was really different....Yvette, but it made middle names awkward so they added Anne. Well they got that one right!! I hated my name growing up as i had an odd surname as well. As a result i was determined to give my children 'normal' names, however i really loved the name Rhian, so compromised by making it a middle name for my daughter, and her first name is Gemma after one of my favourite books as a child, then the world went mad for the name Gemma and everyone started using it. She is always telling me she wishes i had called her Rhian as a first name...so i guess parents will never get it right lol. My sons middle names are son No1 Robert after his father, and son No2 Edward Geoffrey after my much loved Grandad and my husbands father, both who sadly never met their namesakes. Since getting into genealogy i have found that Edward has figured in my grandads family for many generations. So a wise choice? No doubt he will have his own opinion in years to come!! Yvette

Hi Russel My full name is Elaine Barbara. Apparently after a cousin Barbara Elaine who lives in Australia. Still dont know what branch of the family she is though... My little girls name is Connie Mae. I diddn't want to spell it may. Someone I once knew had a daughter Ellie Mae . My sons name is Kyle David,...David after David Bowie...only Joking....after my hubby David...LOL ! Elaine x

my middle name is ann after my nan (annie) my sons name is mark after my brother and my daughter is eleanor poppy after well no one. i do like daisy and rosannah bel for girls name not sure on boys louise

so glad my mum never gave me her first name Ethel i got her second name instead ,my second name Joyce came from my grandmother who had a little girl called Joyce but she died at 3months old her second name was Louisa which i would have prefered Margaret

Mine is Langley which was my mother's maiden name. My eldest son has to live with Adam Bruce James which are the names of his two grandfathers and the grandaddy of us all.

hi all My daughter Paige,s middle name is Francesca which is after my dad Frank whom passed away just before she was born. tracy

my favourite are my childrens middle names, daughter Elouise, after an 80s song my elouise, sons Byron, he doesnt like it, i wanted it as a first name but hubby suggested different first name, i liked byron when i was in my teens but then my hubby was in a place called byron heights when we first new each other, on telling my son he said ' thank god he wasnt in stanley on the falklands'! hmmm i think he could be a comedian.

I have 2 middle names. Violet and Ellen. Violet after my Mum and grandmother and Ellen after my Dad's Mum and his grandmother. When I was at school I used to hate them and would never tell anybody. Now having researched the family I am proud of the names. Sometimes when people as what the V stands for I say Violent or Valentine according to the mood I am in Shirley