What is with people consistently calling their kids by both first and middle name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is hugely popular where I'm from (south central VA), but they use family names. It's weird. My niece has a name like this - double first name, the second part of which is my mom's maiden name. Again, so strange to me.

Why is it strange and weird to you if it's hugely popular where you are from? I can see why you might not like it, but how is it strange to you if it's how you were raised?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t annoy me as much as someone who calls their kid “my love.”

Also, some kids “go” by two names.

Also, some parents just like to hear both names together because it makes them feel important and they want everyone to know how stylish and clever they are at “names.”

You’d hate me
I call my kid all of these names
My love
My son
My world
My everything
My sun
My boo

I had to excuse myself to go vomit. Your kid(s) must be humiliated if you do this in public!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They do it to show off how cool and clever they are. The irony is that the names are always the most UNCLEVER names.

Eleanor Claire, come here!
Aiden Henry, that's not your truck.
Charlotte Grace, come have your snack!
Henry Ethan, time to change your diaper! (and Henry Aiden is 4).

I love Henry Ethan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They do it to show off how cool and clever they are. The irony is that the names are always the most UNCLEVER names.

Eleanor Claire, come here!
Aiden Henry, that's not your truck.
Charlotte Grace, come have your snack!
Henry Ethan, time to change your diaper! (and Henry Aiden is 4).

I love Henry Ethan.

You would.

[Anonymous]

Even worse than Elizabeth Grace: girls with names where the middle name isn't a real name. I have met a Mary Meadows (who goes by Mary Meadows), a Mary Weather (maybe it was Maryweather? Either way, so pretentious), and a Sally Chapel. Just can't with those.

signed,
someone who gave her daughter a hyphenated last name, knows the world is judging

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t annoy me as much as someone who calls their kid “my love.”

Also, some kids “go” by two names.

Also, some parents just like to hear both names together because it makes them feel important and they want everyone to know how stylish and clever they are at “names.”

You’d hate me
I call my kid all of these names
My love
My son
My world
My everything
My sun
My boo

I had to excuse myself to go vomit. Your kid(s) must be humiliated if you do this in public!

He’s 5 weeks
I’ll let you know when he can talk and I’ll ask him

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t annoy me as much as someone who calls their kid “my love.”

Also, some kids “go” by two names.

Also, some parents just like to hear both names together because it makes them feel important and they want everyone to know how stylish and clever they are at “names.”

You’d hate me
I call my kid all of these names
My love
My son
My world
My everything
My sun
My boo

I had to excuse myself to go vomit. Your kid(s) must be humiliated if you do this in public!

He’s 5 weeks
I’ll let you know when he can talk and I’ll ask him

You’re in the wrong thread. Newborn mommy brain- we get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even worse than Elizabeth Grace: girls with names where the middle name isn't a real name. I have met a Mary Meadows (who goes by Mary Meadows), a Mary Weather (maybe it was Maryweather? Either way, so pretentious), and a Sally Chapel. Just can't with those.

signed,
someone who gave her daughter a hyphenated last name, knows the world is judging

Are you sure they aren't double barreled first names, southern Style?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even worse than Elizabeth Grace: girls with names where the middle name isn't a real name. I have met a Mary Meadows (who goes by Mary Meadows), a Mary Weather (maybe it was Maryweather? Either way, so pretentious), and a Sally Chapel. Just can't with those.

signed,
someone who gave her daughter a hyphenated last name, knows the world is judging

I can almost guarantee you those second names are family surnames. Again, common in the south. I’ve known plenty of kids named things like Mary Campbell, Elizabeth Gray, Mary Arden, etc. All family names.

[Anonymous]

Listen here, my Larlo Fitzgerald is special and dammit, you all will know!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you from? No one would think twice about this in my southern family. That said, maybe you should take up meditation or yoga if something so trivial and over which you have no control gets you so triggered.

+2

Oh my gosh, it's an anonymous parenting thread! It's THE PLACE to complain about trivial things!

Agree. Talk about being triggered!

[Anonymous]

It reminds me of how people always call serial killers by the full names.

[Anonymous]

I thought people only called their kids by both names when they were in trouble. Here is my order

First warning: Nickname (his initials)
Second warning: Actual name
Final warning: First and Middle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought people only called their kids by both names when they were in trouble. Here is my order

First warning: Nickname (his initials)
Second warning: Actual name
Final warning: First and Middle

I call my daughter by her first and middle name sometimes, simply because I love how it sounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are southern, it’s the norm. I’m Anna Elizabeth. I go by Anna Beth. I wouldn’t answer to Anna. No one has ever called me just Anna. My kids go by double names as well. I promise. We don’t do it to annoy you. They are just names.

Yes, this. My niece has a double name. The whole thing is her name & what she’s gone by since birth.

Same. And as a PP said, what would be on their cubby at school?

My DD has a pretty distinctive double name, after her grandmother, Annie Mack, and if you refer to her as just Annie, she won't answer. She knows it's not her name.