Middle names

I have two forenames, my parents had one. DH has three as do our children and grandchildren.

My grandchildren have three forenames each. I have two, my brother only has one, as did my father. I think it’s good to have a choice, just in case you happen to dislike one of the names.

One thing I find irritating is that I am known by the second of my two forenames, but of course officialdom uses the first one. I answer to both.

Two forenames for most of our family. My Mum had three.

Two forenames are most usual but you can have as many as you want I’m really surprised that sometimes the name used bears little connection to the birth names.
I had a Aunt Peggy, it was the only name ever used, her forenames were Margaret Lysbeth .

I only ever had one name, so did my husband. He came from a large family of 9, some had two names, some one, which seemed odd to me as I would have done the same for all of them.

Our two children have two names, as do all the GC.

Double barrelled surnames used to suggest you were ‘posh’.

No longer the case.