You have a point.
In my family the ancestors used the mother’s maiden name as the middle name, and occasionally as the first name (Ancestor Caswell Kilby is a good example.)
Problem was, the families intermarried (as good Pennsylvania German Mennonites did back then) and before you knew it the poor kids had first and last names that were the same. I actually have a Zimmerman Zimmerman in my family tree.
Zimmerman? Are they racist murderers?
There you go!
Yep..we’ve done some middle names too..my middle name is my grandmother’s maiden name and my grandson’s first name is my father’s middle name. Cousins have done similar...I guess we got on an ancestor jag.
I like it though- certainly for middle names it’s more interesting than Lee or Ann!