A small site about a small decision
Most middle names are picked by accident.
Let’s do better.
Curated middle-name pairings for babies, cats, dogs, horses, superheroes, villains, houseplants, and cars. Every name has a reason. None of them are tapestries.
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Babies
sixty-plus first names. twenty-six middles each.
02
Cats
sixty cats. their middles. nothing more.
03
Dogs
sixty dogs, tested for shoutability.
04
Horses
thirty horses. weather, mythic, western.
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Superheroes
forty-eight heroes with origin-story middles.
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Villains
forty-eight villains. mostly two syllables. always menacing.
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Plants
names for your monstera. and your monstera's middle.
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Cars
car names with middle names. yes, this is a service we provide.
What this site is, and isn’t
It is
- A list of first names, each with twenty-six middles.
- Curated. Each pairing has a one-line reason.
- Cross-linked, so you can wander.
- Free, fast, no ads, no signup.
It isn’t
- A baby-name database. (See babyna.me for that.)
- An astrology tool. Sorry.
- Concerned with what your mother-in-law will think.
- Going to use the word “myriad” even once.
A few favorite pages, picked at random
- Middle names for Atlas — mythic firsts, mythic middles
- Middle names for a cat named Pickle — including Sebastian
- Middle names for a dog named Biscuit — we lean rugged
- Middle names for the hero Atlas — cosmic edition
- Middle names for the villain Dread — commit fully
- Celestial baby middle names — thirty stars and planets
- Literary baby middle names — borrowed from poets
- Regal cat middle names — a creature deserves its title