like ella gehring mackey or timothy gehring mackey?
i don't plan on changing my last name with marriage.
2007-10-08 04:01:59 · 22 answers · asked by .. 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Baby Names
It is a perfectly normal practice. I think both names you have listed are lovely. Because you are not changing your last name, I think it is especially fitting to name your children that. After all, they are a part of you.
Good luck and best wishes to you!
2007-10-08 04:34:02 · answer #1 · answered by mjh 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you dont plan to change your name then that would be correct. Or you could hyphenate it Gehring-Mackey.
Then the child could have a regular middle name - Like Timothy James Gehring-Mackey
2007-10-08 04:06:48 · answer #2 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I like that idea... I've known people who have done that. Gehring is a name that sounds great as a middle name too!
2007-10-08 06:52:30 · answer #3 · answered by Kelli M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not certain exactly how common it is in general, but it is done. Especially in the south, where passing on family names (as the first or middle) is quite a popular practice. Double names, such as Eve Harper, where mother's maiden name was Harper, are also quite the norm. And I have plenty of family and friends from all over who've done this with their children (especially the less common Irish surnames -- in other words, not random ones like Mackenzie -- that the family would like to pass on), so I think it's safe to assume it a common practice nation- (and world-) wide.
2007-10-08 04:11:03 · answer #4 · answered by Irish Mommy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a tradition in my family to use the mother's maiden name as a middle name, for at least the last 3 generations. It may go back even farther than that. I think it's a great way to keep the names going.
2007-10-08 04:09:21 · answer #5 · answered by k8thegr8 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not a common practice now, but it the early part of the 1900's and before it was very common
Another common practice at that time was to use the grandparents first names. A boy would get his paternal GF's first name as his first name and the maternal GF as his middlename.
2007-10-08 04:14:10 · answer #6 · answered by Sophie B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am from the midwest and it does not seem to be common there - but when I moved to South Carolina almost every girl I knew who was married dropped their middle name and took their maiden as their new middle name - so my answer is I find it to be a regional thing.
2007-10-08 04:11:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's getting more common...I did not want my child to only have her Fathers name...why should she? I put his name in the middle though...mine is last...I dont see why it is automatically the Dad who gets the last name...mine is much prettier and it is no more than a relic of the bad old days when women were beholden to men for everything.
2007-10-08 04:12:28 · answer #8 · answered by Daisyhill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use it, especially if you are not planning on changing your name. It keeps a piece of your cultural heritage in her name and allows both mom and dad to have their last names carried on. If my maiden name wasn't so long I would consider doing the same thing.
2007-10-08 04:36:24 · answer #9 · answered by cricket 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's probably not common but if it's what you'd like to do I say go for it. I think it's a neat way to keep both names going.
My daughter has my mother's maiden name as a middle name.
2007-10-08 04:05:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋