About your middle name ...

I used it frequently when I was young since without it my initials are BO. recall an incident in grade school when the teacher was writing everyone's initials on the blackboard--don't remember why. When she came to me she hesitated, then wrote them. No surprise when the whole class started laughing. I eventually grew out of it. Doesn't seem to matter now since a certain recent president has the same initials.
 

i dont have a middle name, and i was never baptised
i was always a bit peeved about this as the other siblings are all baptised with middle names

so im just PG....which makes people laugh , as in PG tips (teabags) or the monkey LOL
 

charry said:
i dont have a middle name, and i was never baptised
i was always a bit peeved about this as the other siblings are all baptised with middle names

so im just PG....which makes people laugh , as in PG tips (teabags) or the monkey LOL
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No worries, you're in good company @charry. My initials are now PG ( here is the US it's short for pregnant), have been since 1996, when I last married. It tickled me then, and hasn't been mentioned since.;)
 
Right Now said:
No worries, you're in good company @charry. My initials are now PG ( here is the US it's short for pregnant), have been since 1996, when I last married. It tickled me then, and hasn't been mentioned since.;)
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On all the government forms (for security purposes) that I had to fill out many years ago, if you listed someone as a reference who did not have a middle name, it was mandatory to put NMI for that person!
 
I like it. It is my dad's first name.

On the other hand, I hate my first name, that was my mother's stepfather's name. As I matured, I realized I really could not stop using it while my grandfather was still living. So, I learned to live with it. But none of my kids have it and I saw to it that none of my grandkids get stuck with it...
 
Unfortunately, I was given no middle name. Don't know why, but I wish I had one. I hate my first name, and probably would have used the middle name if it was anything reasonable. (But given my parents' taste in names, who knows what they would have come up with?)
 
Colleen said:
My middle name is good (Kay) but I always hated my first name (Colleen). I was adopted when I was 3 years old and my adopted parents changed my birth name from Mary Kay to Colleen Kay. I've always felt "unsettled" :(
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So change it back, or to another name that you feel comfortable with! :)
 
I don't have one and it really used to bother me (long since stopped caring about it) so, of course, my children all have meaningful middle names. "Anthony, Antoinette and Anne-Octavine."
 
I have always disliked my name, however I really like my middle name. I tried to switch to my middle name when I was in high school, but it didn't take! My middle name seems to be a combination of my mother's name and my grandma's name. My middle name is Christianna. When I wanted to get married, we discovered I had no middle name. Since my grandmother had custody of me, we decided to have my middle name inserted in my birth certificate. Grandma did the honors, and just recently I discovered she spelled it Christiana. As far as I am concerned and as far as the Canadian government is concerned it is Christianna!
 
I'm a Jr. I was named after my father. My father always went by our first name, so I was always called by my middle name, Douglas. I embrace it and go by Doug to this day. I always thought my first name was embarrassing for a child, so each new year of school when the teacher called my first name during roll call I cringed. It also prompted lots of laughs from my fellow students. To this day, I still have difficulty when someone calls me by my first name.

Our first and last names were butchered Jewish names due to my ancestors moving from Germany to the US during Nazi Germany. My family became Southern Baptists. I won't share my first name for privacy reasons.
 
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My last name is so distinctive I have no need for a middle name. My mother made the call for the latter after debating whether to use Winfield or Wesley. It isn't a big deal to me and I wouldn't have been crazy about either of those choices. Changing names was all the rage in my generation but I've never given it any thought at all.
 
I was born with a first and middle name, then given another name when I was baptized. Come confirmation time and I had to choose an additional name. Much of this is no longer required by the Catholic Church, which is less confusing.

I've always used my birth certificate first name and middle initial.
 
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