{"id":7069,"date":"2009-03-13T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/03\/13\/baby-naming-issue-two-middle-names\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T00:23:00","slug":"baby-naming-issue-two-middle-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/03\/13\/baby-naming-issue-two-middle-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Two Middle Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy writes:<\/p>\n

I am due with my third child on March 27th. My husband and I prefer classic names and I think we have settled on James for a first name. I have boy\/girl twins whose names are Stella and Thomas. I like the way Stella, Thomas and James sound together. However, the reason I am writing is because of the middle name. I want James Francis and my husband likes James Xavier. The only compromise that we have reached is to name the baby James Francis Xavier. I wanted to get you and your readers opinion about having two middle names. My twins do not have two middle names: Stella Audrey and Thomas Richard. Will it be too confusing to have two middle names? What do you think?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh! I can offer personal experience on the two middle names thing! It’s a little<\/span> confusing, but only occasionally, and only mildly. Some forms allow only one middle name, and in those cases you just have in mind which middle name you want to use as the default. When filling out forms, you get used to making a little arrow to the second middle name with “second middle name” written nearby, so that people don’t think it’s the first half of a hyphenated surname. It comes up maybe once or twice a year, and for me it hasn’t been a hassle that would keep me from recommending it.<\/p>\n

A bigger issue might be Francis Xavier<\/a>. But “seeming to be named for a saint” is not exactly a negative, is it? And James Francis Xavier is a glorious name.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a poll over to the right with the three choices: James Francis, James Xavier, or James Francis Xavier. [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n

Poll results<\/span> (248 votes total):
James Francis: 83 votes, roughly 33%
James Xavier: 58 votes, roughly 23%
James Francis Xavier: 107 votes, roughly 43%<\/p>\n

Name update<\/span> 03-31-2009! Amy writes:<\/p>\n

Hello!! I just wanted to thank you and your readers for all the great input with our new beautiful son’s name. James Francis was born on March 27th at 9:36 am. My husband changed his mind last minute and we went with one middle name. It fits him:-) Thank you again for all the great discussion!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy writes: I am due with my third child on March 27th. My husband and I prefer classic names and I think we have settled on James for a first name. I have boy\/girl twins whose names are Stella and Thomas. I like the way Stella, Thomas and James sound together. However, the reason I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}