In our family the mother’s maiden surname was given as two of the sons’ middle names.
John Cordley Cole ,who died aged 14 so the next boy born was also John Cordley Cole.
There are a few generations in the cemeteries of Bathurst and Sofala N.S.W,,
The mother who named her youngest boys so was left behind in Lincolnshire when her five older boys emigrated to the goldfields in 1853. They named their sons after their mother’s family.
I like it and had I got so far back in family history when I was naming my son’s I too would have used it.
Viktoria.