My middle name is my paternal grandmother's name (she died when I was 3). She was a fantastic, loving woman who strongly influenced all her children and their family, and at least one of my cousins was given her name as a middle name too. It means a lot to me.

However it's not really a tradition. My mother's middle names are her great-grandmothers' names, and she hates them (the names) so much she always said she wouldn't pick an ugly name for her kids, no matter how much she likes the person.

My parents named my older brother after my maternal grandmother's maiden name, and my name is my mother's maiden name. It's a great way to keep my family's heritage alive, and luckily we have great names! My first born will be getting my maiden name for sure.

My husband and I couldn't pick a name for the life of us. One day I was watching an episode of Friends and I said the name Rachel out loud, my daughter kicked me and I decided that was her name Hubby got to pick the middle name though

Thankfully we dont have any naming traditions in my family or in his . We dont have kids yet but we have both voiced our decision to not use a "kreatif" names, meaning to take a real name and spell it "creative"ly to make it a new name, because all you are doing is spelling it differently, the name is still the same and for rest of that kids life teachers, supervisors, whatever is going to say "brittany, thats spelled b.r.i.t.t.a.n.y right" and they will have to say no its "B.r.y.t.a.n.n.i" and to me thats just dumb.

I share my middle name with my mother and maternal grandmother. If I ever have a daughter I will probably keep the tradition going.

My daughter was named after a place, my son after a character in a book and both of their middle names are family ones. Our next baby will have one family name and one unusual one as well.

My fiance's middle name is also his father's and grandfather's middle names. So, yes, we will be using that for our son's middle name. If we happen to have two boys the second will either get my maiden name as a middle name or my grandmother's maiden name.

We have several names picked out for a girl - and most of them have to do with family somehow. Her middle name will be my middle name.

my middle name is my paternal grandmothers name, my brother is named after my maternal great grandfather (which is also the male version of my mums name) and my father, my younger brother is named after a maternal and paternal uncle ( which a cousin born in the same year has the uncles nickname so none of us children have a same name but few family names reused.)
I thought i would do the same but most of my closest friends have the same name as a relatives, freaky.

We have a new "traditions" used with our son, and future children. My husband's father passed away 10 years ago, and we used his first name for our son's first name.

Then we have middle names. My mother, her 2 sisters and both of her parents have an "A" middle initial. My father also has an "A" and so my brother and I got "A"s as well. When deciding on my son's name I knew I wanted all of my children to have an "A" middle initial as well (even though my hubby doesn't have one). It just so happens that my M-I-L's middle name is Ann, and so is my mother's, so if we have a girl in the future her middle name will be Ann.

Also, my father's middle name is August, which came from his grandfather and was my brother's middle name as well. My brother passed away on December 19th (a very young 23 years old) and I plan on passing down the August middle name if we have another son one day.

there are no naming triditions in my family. 21 years ago, when my mom found out she was prego my grandfather, who has since passed away, wanted me to be a boy and if i was my grandmother wanted me to be named after him. maybe i will name my son..if i have a son, i want girls:)..after him. we'll have to see, but it's really up to what strikes my boyfriend and i as a good name when we are married and expecting our baby.

There's really no tradition for names in our families except my husbands brother and sister are both named after their grandparents and have also chosen to name their kids after grandparents. When we had our son, I really wante dto use my great, great, great, great grandfathers name, but we settled on it as a middle name. Our 1st daughter is the name we'd chosen if our son had been a girl, and happens to be made up of 3 far back family names. Our 2nd daughter's middle name is my parternal grandfathers name. He died when I was only 3 and my dad only had me so the family name won't be continued and I thought this might be a nice tribute.

There's not a huge tradition - no juniors or anything, but I know that if I have a son, his name will (more than likely) be Steven. My boyfriend's name is Steven, as is his father's AND my father's, and my uncle. Think I'll be related to enough Steves? lol!

My husband is actually a 4th...as in he has the same full name as his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather but we decided we wanted our kids to have their own names (his decision long before we decided to have kids); however, we wanted to include family so both of our children's middle names are after a family member while their first names are just names that we loved. It worked out very well for our son who's middle name is after my husband, his father, my grandfather and my uncle who all shared the same middle name (and all but my husband have passed away either before or since my son's birth). My daughter is named after my grandmother. My brother and I both have one name from a family member and one name that my parents liked - not really a tradition but maybe it will become one!

All of us girls have the same middle name and all of the boys have the same middle name. It has been that way since my great-grandparents.

it was mentioned above, but being jewish i will definitely be continuing the 'tradition' of naming my children after deceased family members!! of course in this day in age the names most likely will change using the same letter or receiving the same hebrew name!!! in almost all cases this is the way my entire family does it!!!

We did this with my baby's first middle name, Jane. She was named after my deceased mother-in-law Joan and a very dear friend of the family named Jean who passed away recently. It's a common practice in my husband's Jewish family, he was named for one of his deceased grandmothers with a name that has the same first letter as hers.

my husbands paternal side of the family is from India, so his parents gave him an indian middle name, but it doesn't honor anyone specifically. my middle name is also my mothers middle name and her aunts middle name, so i continued it with my daughter, but combined it into her first name - jessalynn. her middle name is christine, and it is to honor her uncle chris. not really traditions, but she is named after people.

My sons middle name is James, common on both sides of our families. Child #2 will have my husbands initials, JKI.

We are having a girl in June, and her middle name will be after my grandma (who died today). We planned on using her name even before her death because she was just so full of life and goodness, and we think that she is a good role model for our daughter.

My son is named after my husband's grandfather, and his middle name is a variation of my maiden name. If we have another son, he will be named after my husband's father, and maybe a middle name from my dad. If it's a girl, probably no tradition - just a pretty name that mama likes:-)