Help with Boy middle name.

[puffkin]

Trying to get ideas for a middle name for our soon to be son. We are kind of stuck as we have no family names that we want to use.

Our front runner for a first name is Brady.

Our last name starts with an R, so would prefer no R's for the middle name. Other than that, more concerned with the flow with the first name.

Would like to stay away from names starting with J or M because of the initials. Also would not like to use the names Michael or Thomas as those are the grandfathers names and we don't want to pick one over the other.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[F1Julie]

I like Alexander, Daniel, or William for a middle name for Brady.

 

[ThunderMtnGirlSpr'05]

What about Skylor, or Alexander?
~Deja

 

[FionaLovesShrek]

How about Christopher, David, Darrin, Lawrence or Warren? Whew...I personally like Christopher.

 

[Servants of Evan]

Allen, Allan, Alan... Take your choice.

 

[jennifer293]

how about Ashton.....I am a huge Ashton Kutcher fan...LOL

I know you are not supposed to use the same syllables for 1st and second name but I think it sounds good together.

 

[wilma-bride]

Personally, I like William or Daniel as boys names. John would go well with a first name of Brady (not sure how you feel about the initials BJ though).

 

[jennifer293]

BTW your pic in your signature is PRICELESS....The dog looks scared to death of the cat!!!

I love it!!!

 

[CastMemberDWA]

Cole, Ethan, Nolan, Wayne, Ashton or Asher, Levi, Douglas

Go for a Strong manly name in the middle!

 

[bdb7607]

Our son's name is Brevin...

 

[stacy6552]

Daniel totally came to my mind too. How funny.

Why not use your maiden name, or your mom's, or her mom's......?

 

[salmoneous]

A lot of us folks in New England think Tom would work great. Then there's Mike, Greg, Peter or Bobby. Or cut to the chase and give him Bunch as a middle name

On a slightly more serious note, I've always been a big fan of the mother's madien name.

 

[FSUGrad97]

What about using your husband's first name as a middle name? In our family, it is a tradition to use the father's name as the middle name.

 

[jorodopo]

How about Harrison?

We had named our first after all three grandfathers so we got to fully pick names for our second also. We also got stuck on the middle one. One nite, very late, I was driving and listening to a biography kind of thing on Bing Crosby (it was late and documentary things keep me awake )

They said how he started in Vaudville always singing "H-A-Double R-I-G-A-N spells Harrigan" That morphed to Harrison. We thought it was kind of a cool way to pick a name and Harrison is what it became.

Wasn't until 2 days after he was born that we found out that his maternal great-great-grandma's last name was Harrison.

Congratulations!!!

 

[lovesdumbo]

With an "A" middle name the initials would be BAR.

I used DH's Mom's Mom's maiden name which is also my DH's sister's middle name-Joseph Gregg.

I was convinced my 3rd baby was a boy and we picked James Galbraith-my DH's middle name which is also his Mom's maiden name. For a girl we had Eleanor Rose but when we found out that baby #3 was a boy we changed to Emma Galbraith.

Just a side note-we went back and forth over the Joseph because it is my brother's name. My husband didn't want to offend my other brother or any other relative. We almost went with Thomas. I am so glad that we just decided he was a Joseph and stuck with that.

 

[digskat]

my son's name is Braeden David Macdonald Duncan ( david is hubbie's name and my granddad was david macdonald) DD is Kaitlyn Hannah (hannah is mil maiden name, macdonald is my mom's) Good luck in your quest to find the perfect name how about Oliver?

 

[barkley]

i vote for "spencer". it's my son's first name. we like it because with the exception of "spence" you can't get tagged with a nickname.

 

[puffkin]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

My front runner was Alexander, so I was happy to see that on a few suggestions.

My husband's name is Troy, it just doesn't sound right witht Brady....that whole 2 syllable, 1 syllable thing.....plus, we don't want to give the kid a name someone else in the family has....I am a twin and big on that individuality thing. We both aren't big into using family names. I waited my whole life to get married to lose my maiden name, so I would never bestow it upon a kid!

The suggestion of Oliver cracked me up. My coworker has a dog named Oliver and just got a puppy and named it Brady. She had/has no idea that is our boy's name. She would probably think I was a little weird if I named my kid Brady Oliver after her dogs.......

 

[happygirl]

Our son name is Brady Austin

 

[MinnieGirl33]

What about using your husband's first name as a middle name? In our family, it is a tradition to use the father's name as the middle name.

Both my sons have their father's first name for their middle name.

I have a thing against jr.'s but still wanted to recognize my husband. BTW, how come girls aren't named after their mothers/grandmothers the way boy's are their fathers???