In addition to my comment below; having more than one name is also a good idea when it comes to wanting to use possible family names. We were very happy to use some lovely names as middle names for our children. This was not about a family tradition rather using names with some special meaning.

Middle names are great and it is a good opportunity to go with two names or more if there are a number of names being considered for a child! It actually does not matter what anyone else thinks about names or the number of names. We loved being able to choose a number of names.

I have a middle name and so does my 6 year old. All my mum friends also have their children middle names. It is however not uncommon for kids to not have one. I think it’s a personal choice and it honestly doesn’t really matter in the long run. Do what you think and not what others might think.

My child does, and I have two middle names myself. I didn’t care either way giving out kid a middle name, but my husband wanted to. Having a double barrel middle name felt annoying as a kid, my entire name was just so wordy. But it can be a nice way to honour loved ones

My kids have middle names – but to be honest, we dont really use it unless it’s for something like a medical form etc that requires a full name! It’s just not that big of a thing these days i find and more to do with older generations to be honest.

My daughter has TWO middle names! In her case, because we named her after my mother, to keep the other side happy, her middle names are after my husbands mother and grandmother. My middle child, son, has one middle name (my husbands name) and my last son, has a middle name because it rolled off the tongue and because we didnt want him to be the only child without a middle name. Out of myself and my two siblings only one of us doesn’t have a middle name. I think because my mother was so exhausted and she did all the birth certificates even though English is not her first language. Its not a snobby english custom. I wouldn’t listen to your husbands sister at all. It sounds like sour grapes rather than a joke.