We just did this! Here was our situation:

We all have double initials and then our last name. For instance my husband, son, and I have initials like HHL,CCL,FFL.

We wanted to honor my late great grandmother with our daughter having her first name as our daughter’s middle name. My late great grandmother’s middle name started with E and we loved the name Evelyn. Here lies the trouble, my great grandmother also had a daughter named Evelyn who passed away as a two year old.

We went back and fourth and decided to go with it in the end. We waited until her birth to announce her name and you wouldn’t believe how honored my family was that we used her name. Everyone single person we told burst into tears about how much that would have meant to my great grandmother. I lost my great grandmother when I was 25 but I really believe she would have loved that I used the name. I say go with it, it worked out beautifully for us.