Category: cool middle names
The Big Middle Name
With middle names, one way — the more popular way — to go is to choose slim, sleek, minimal middle names. Meaningful or simply connective, these middle names provide a short euphonic bridge between the more important first and last names.
But middle names can go another way, toward the big, important, statement name in the middle.
We’re talking multisyllabic, exotic, literary, artistic, mind-blowing, message-carrying middle names.
Names you love, but don’t want to stick your child with in first place. Names that are too daring, too difficult, too attention-grabbing to foist upon someone you love.
What’s Your Middle Name?
It might be embarrassing.
Or kind of a snooze.
Maybe it tells a story about you or your family.
Maybe you’ve changed it.
Today we’re going to reprise that fifth grade playground conversation and answer that revealing question: What’s your middle name? Do you love it or hate it? And what’s the story behind it?
Middle Names: 100 fresh choices
As first names become more distinctive and more meaningful, middle names take on those qualities in spades. Anything goes when it comes to middle names now, and parents are looking far beyond the usual given names to find unusual choices.
Four prime sources for middle names: Diminutives such as Jack or Mimi that may honor a beloved friend or relative, nature or animal names, names of heroes of fact or fiction, and inspirational names.
To bring you some new ideas, we’ve mined those areas to come up with 100 fresh choices. Here they are:
Nickname Names
Middle Names 2012: The New Connectors
There are several hot trends in middle names 2012.
One is the Middle Name with Meaning — family surnames, place names, virtue names you might not use in first place but that make for distinctive middle names.
Another is using two middle names, often to honor family members.
And then there are The New Connectors.
These names don’t mean or stand for anything or anyone special. They just sound good, bridging the first and last names with a euphonious single syllable.
How do they differ from the standard middle names of yore, the Anns and Lees and Johns that might be thought of as The Old Connectors?
They don’t, so much, except that they’re not Ann or Lee or John.
Cool Middle Names: The Nameberry 9– Kick, Darling and Papillon
Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel finds some truly unique and cool middle names among this week’s newsiest nine.
Let’s hear it for the daffy middle.
Plenty of us put a classic like James or Grace or Ann in the middle spot, and sometimes those ordinary appellations make the perfect choice. Some of us go wild with our child’s first name, too, but for those of us who aren’t among the rich and famous, choices like Blue or Pilot can feel awfully outlandish.
The compromise is to choose a relatively mainstream moniker for the first spot, and to tuck that wild dare of an idea, or that clunky family name, safely in the middle.
That seems to be the brief in Hollywoodthis week. So let’s start with a few newsworthy birth announcements, all featuring riskier middles.
Bastian Kick – Charlie Ballerina’s baby brother has a name just like hers – a modern first name borrowed from more traditional choices, and a middle name straight out of the dictionary. Actor Jeremy Sisto joked that he and wife Addie Lane used the reference book for inspiration – or maybe he wasn’t kidding. Even if you’re more of a Sebastian and Charlotte kind of parent, Bastian and Charlie probably feel comfortably familiar. In this age of noun names, Kick raises the stakes by adding action verbs to the mix.
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