About your middle name ...

[LadyEmeraude]

Do you like your middle name or would you rather toss it?

 

[chic]

Toss.

 

[Bella]

Like.

 

[Blessed]

If you know the last name of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz you will know my middle name. I love it, my name was a gift to me from my father. He died young, at 36 from a heart attack. I do not remember him but I know he loved me. Mom had been knocked out for the birth.

 

[oldaunt]

Its boring, but after 75 years, I'm kinda getting used to it......

 

[Raddragn]

I liked it well enough to abandon my first name after High School and adopted my middle name when I went to college. It was also my mother's first name.

 

[Kika]

My middle name is the first name of my Godmother (my father's sister) in Italian. I never use it, nor the initial.

I like it ok, don't dislike it. However, put in the middle of my first name and last name, it sounds like a disease.

 

[hollydolly]

I don't like my middle name . I was given the name in honour of both my maternal and paternal grandmothers' who both had the same first name .. it's not an ugly name per se.. it's a very common name, but I don't like it, I'm glad they didn't give me it as my first name

 

[jujube]

I've always had a hard time getting people to spell my middle name correctly. Somebody even changed the spelling on the original records copy of my birth certificate and my mother and I had to go before a judge to get it changed back.

I would not have chosen it myself.

 

[MountainRa]

Like

 

[Llynn]

What I carry as a middle name was the given name of my Welsh G.Grandfather. It has caused me a bit of bother over the years because of the spelling (a double L at the beginning of a name is uncommon in these parts) and many folks see it as a girls name. Hence I don't use it much although why I selected it for my SF username is a bit of a puzzle even to me.

 

[Pappy]

Like mine. It is my dads first name.

 

[ronaldj]

it was my father's ...the greatest man who ever lived.

 

[Lawrence]

I like my middle name; it is my father's first name. I have used it a couple of times during my life as my first name. Which is common and maybe a heritage within the family I live. Some family members did not care for their first name, so they opted to go by their middle name. A gal I knew in the past had the middle name of K and that is it just the letter K. I found that quite interesting for I had never heard of that before.

 

[Ruthanne]

It's my confirmation name I chose in 5th grade. It's my mom's name and I like it.

 

[Nathan]

I like my middle name, but not when I was growing up. Turns out, there is both a paternal and maternal grandfather both having it as a first name. I gave it to my son as well. As an adult, he asked me why, I explained and he gained a positive outlook on his middle name.

Edit: forgot to mention, I actually have two middles names, one birth and one baptismal. I like them both.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

I was not given a middle name at birth. If I were to have one now
I would choose the name Rachelle or Marie .

 

[chic]

I like my middle name, but not when I was growing up. Turns out, there is both a paternal and maternal grandfather both having it as a first name. I gave it to my son as well. As an adult, he asked me why, I explained and he gained a positive outlook on his middle name.

Edit: forgot to mention, I actually have two middles names, one birth and one baptismal. I like them both.

I have two also. One baptismal and the second confirmation which I chose for myself at age twelve. I like the one I chose for myself.

 

[dseag2]

I am a Junior, so my first name was my father's name. I always went by my middle name. I am happy with it. I hate my first name, even though I loved my father.

 

[RadishRose]

I don't care.

 

[wcwbf]

my sister and i are both NMIs.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

My middle name was my birthmother's first name. It's a bit unusual but similar to a common name. When I legally changed my name to an Islamic one, I kept my middle name to honor her.

 

[Alligatorob]

Like it, Eric, my parents tell me I was named for Eric the Red.

 

[Paladin1950]

I have the same first and middle name as my late father. My middle name is Carl. My grandmother once told me that when my father was born, she thought about having my father's middle name be spelled the German way with a K. I never use my middle name or the Junior at the end of my name. My middle initial is on my credit card and some of my mail.

 

[NorthernLight]

I'd toss it, and I've tried to do so. It's my understanding that we can use whatever name we want, as long as it's not for fraudulent purposes. But it isn't that easy.

As a teenager, I insisted on having a social insurance card without my middle name. Ten years later the card was stolen, and they issued a new one with it.

When I graduated from university, again I had to insist on not having my middle name on the paper. I never use it, so why have it?