About your middle name ...

[Bretrick]

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My middle name forms half of my Seniors Forum name

 

[LadyEmeraude]

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?

 

[Capt Lightning]

I like my middle name - a lot more than my first name. It's a very common name here.

 

[jujube]

I remember years ago reading in Readers Digest about a guy whose name was R. P. Jones. No names, just letters. When he went into the Army, he signed in as R. (Only) P. (Only) Jones. Of course, his dogtags said Ronly Ponly Jones.

In my late husband's family, everyone went by their middle names. Had to, as all the daughters had "Mary" as their first name.

 

[moviequeen1]

like it because its a family name,though I never use it in every day life,its part of my legal name

 

[DebraMae]

I was not given a middle name. I use my maiden name for a middle name now.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I HATE my middle name. I was named after my "godfather", who was an abusive drunk who beat his wife, and put her in the hospital for a month. Plus, it is crummy, nerdy, lousy name. I always wanted to legally change it. It's a 'thing' that I won't tell my middle name, and lots of people have wondered what it is, but I will never divulge it

 

[Pinky]

I have a Japanese middle name, and so does our daughter.

 

[JustBonee]

I ended up with two middle names ... the second one was chosen for christening purposes into the church.

When I was little, I remember bragging about having four names ... thought that was kinda cool.

 

[JaniceM]

I've never understood the purpose of middle names. Is there any actual purpose?

 

[Timewise 60+]

I would rather use my middle name, James, as it was my late father's first name. My first name is from my step Grandfather's, and I have never liked it...

 

[JustBonee]

I was not given a middle name. I use my maiden name for a middle name now.

Even with a middle name, many women use their maiden name as their middle name after marriage.
That was my choice.

 

[JaniceM]

Even with a middle name, many women use their maiden name as their middle name after marriage.
That was my choice.

I heard that was the traditional approach.

 

[Capt Lightning]

My mother mas insistent that grandchildren shouldn't have her name. She was not too pleased when my brother gave his daughter mothers name as her middle name. Nothing wrong with Margaret - mother just didn't want it used. Mrs. L has three names, but only uses the third one.

 

[hollydolly]

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My middle name forms half of my Seniors Forum name

what sort of parents give their child Trick as a middle name ?...

 

[hollydolly]

I have a Japanese middle name, and so does our daughter.

I know you're 3rd gen Japanese Pinks.. but how lovely it would be if we all were given some exotic middle name

 

[Geezer Garage]

Like so many of that era, I have my fathers name as my middle name ( Arthur ). Like it just fine, but never use it, but do use middle initial.

 

[Paco Dennis]

OK, I confess. My middle name IS Dennis.

 

[hollydolly]

Like so many of that era, I have my fathers name as my middle name ( Arthur ). Like it just fine, but never use it, but do use middle initial.

my nearest brother to me has 4 names .. none of them after my father.. but after 2 uncles.. and my dead twin brother

My eldest brothers' first name is the same as my father's as was my paternal grandfather and his father

 

[JaniceM]

what sort of parents give their child Trick as a middle name ?...

Penn & Teller?

 

[ElCastor]

My middle name is that of an ancestor on my mother’s side of the family. I like it, good choice, and a nice reminder.

 

[Pinky]

I know you're 3rd gen Japanese Pinks.. but how lovely it would be if we all were given some exotic middle name

@hollydolly

Hols, my daughter's middle name is my mother's Japanese name. My niece has it as her first name.

 

[jimintoronto]

My middle name is Graham, after a friend of my Dad's. They met in a barn in France during WW1. They both grew up in Toronto, but didn't know each other until they met in 1916 during the war. He and Dad were friends for over 50 years. JimB.

 

[jujube]

My mother mas insistent that grandchildren shouldn't have her name. She was not too pleased when my brother gave his daughter mothers name as her middle name. Nothing wrong with Margaret - mother just didn't want it used. Mrs. L has three names, but only uses the third one.

Whereas, my grandmother was NOT happy that my sister who was born on her birthday wasn't given her name. Very not happy.

 

[kimmer]

Like It is rhe same as my Father's middle name whom I thought was the greatest person before his passing