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My daughter's middle name is Zoe, to honor my mother, whose first name was Zoe, and my grandmother, whose middle name was Zoe. My husband never liked the name Zoe and he never grew to like it, either, even though it was his daughter's middle name. But he understood my desire to honor my mother and grandmother and keep the name in the family. You might try telling your husband that that's one of the things the middle name slot is for---to use a name for honoring purposes that you wouldn't want to use as a first name. After all, most people are not called by their middle names and most people never even know what one's middle name is. But the family knows, and that's what matters.