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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My question is, why?

What's your goal?

If your goal is to preserve the name and make it a part of your child's name, then you should make it their middle name (with just one middle name) or hyphenate.

Unless you are a royal, nobody will ever know or use your kid's second middle name. It will only be needed for official documents--and even then, the forms aren't really built for an additional name.

I am a woman with a hyphenated last name, and our kids have hyphenated last names. Si[b]nce they are boys, our double-barreled last name will carry on for at least another generation.
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My siblings and several friends gave their children the mother's maiden name as the one middle name. That's another way to carry on a name.

I also know several women who went the HRC/RBG route and use their full name professionally (no hyphens; think: Jane Smith Jones). Your kid could do that, and then the name lives on in a meaningful way.[/quote]

Watch out, there are even people in OUR generation who, as men, changed their last name upon marriage. Crazy, right?![/quote]

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