Is it common or is there like a no-no to give your child your first name as their MN?

For our next child, if it is a boy, I would like it to have DH's first name as his MN and if a girl, my name as her MN.
My brother just had a baby and picked a MN similar to his. I asked mom, why didn't he give his own name? And she said - oh it isn't nice if he had it as his MN. She also thought it was a common MN.
So, I obviously didn't tell her about our plan.

So WDYT? OK or is it more common naming them with grandparent names or dead ancestors?

Note: DS1's first name is DH paternal grandfather's name. Which I don't like anyway

I don't see it as a problem, we are planning to do the same & have my first name as MN if girls & DH MN if a boy.
My parents also did the same for me & my older brother.

My first daughter has my middle name as her middle name, our son has a shorter version of his maternal great grandmas maiden name as his middle name and my second daughter has her sisters name as her middle name!!

If my second daugher was a boy he would have had DH first name as his middle name - mostly because it sounded really nice with the boys name we had picked.

They all have their own unique first names though.

There are no naming "rules", just give them what ever name you want. They are your kids.

My youngest has his fathers first name as his middle name. It wasn't something my dh really wanted, but I did. Dh doesn't have a middle name so we couldn't pass a name on that way and I'm a big believer in showing heritage through names. Ds1 has my maternal grandfathers name as his middle name so they both have heritage.

My nephew middle name is my brothers.

My eldest daughters full first name is my name (she was named when I was young and still big into burn your bra type feminism )

Just do it! Some people like or believe in naming after dead ancestors, some like naming after live ancestors (and others), some don't like naming after at all, some just don't care where a name comes from as long as it suits. It just doesn't matter. You do what speaks to you! And keep it a secret until the time!

I think it's fine.
I don't really like when kids have the same first name, but I see middle names as a way to honour someone and pass that name on.

We've done it. My DD has my first name as her MN. It was the only Lithuanian name we could both agree on.

For DS we used family names too, and unfortunately now his name rhymes

I am not one to chose a MN of family origin for our chidren, we chose a MN that suited our childrens names. Lets just say that my MN is not the best, as it was a family heritage. I didn't want this for my children, I wanted a name that would suit their first name and a name that we liked.

My DD has my name as her middle name.
My DS has my DP's name as his middle name.
I have my Mum's name as my middle name.
DP has his Dad's name as his middle name.

I like it - it is a tradition we didn't mean to carry on but I like the connection it has to us and earlier generations!

If naming babies was just up to me, it would be a no go, however as I have to consider DH in regard to naming it just so happens that DS has DH first name as a middle name. DH also suggested that we use my first name as DD's middle name, but there was no way I would consider that.

We did this! gave our DS my dh's first name as a middle name and our DD my first name as her middle name.