Does anyone have a middle name?

We traditionally have three first names in our family -originally done to please various maiden Aunts .
Combine these unusual names with a double barrelled surname and it does sound deceptively posh !

bikergran

Yes but I wont be disclosing it on here, same as I wouldn't disclose my real name.

So how come your middle name is not real but your first name is real?

i have my grans first and maiden name, the reason for the maiden name was my dad had been adopted within the family, her brother had been murdered and the mother did not want the two boys, so my gran took one and the other brother took the other. my son also has his dad's middle name and my maiden name.

Dc have my maiden name - derived from my grand father’s first name - as their middle name and so do the grand children

We had job enough deciding on a first name for each of ours let alone beginning to think of a middle name. DH liked simple. I preferred unusual as I have a very common first name.

I always thought it was normal to have a middle name. Both my children have middle names, as do most of their friends. On the other hand, my DH doesn't have one.

I was not given a middle name, and a rather dated first name which was popular in the 1920s/30s (I was born in the 60s!) and which I always hated. So about 20 years ago I changed my first name and acquired a middle name by deed poll. This middle name is my grandmother’s name which had come back into regular use in the 90s

In the far away past when I was newly married and living in London I worked for a bank in a posh area. The manager came in every day with his bowler hat on and and never spoke to we lowly workers. He called himself ( I made these up now ) David Imrie-Jones though the Imrie was just his middle name . How horrified he was when we had delivery of our first preprinted cheque books . His came back with the title Mr. David I. Brown he was not impressed.

I have one but I don’t particularly like it and it’s never been used. Just as well I like my first name.

Dh has no middle name - AFAIk his parents no longer saw the point. It’s never bothered him in the slightest, and it’s certainly less faff when filling in official forms!

Like me, he has a classic name.

My eldest g.daughter was given, as a middle name, my Mother's name. Over the years I had forgotten about this, but when I attended her Graduation a couple of years ago, I suddenly found myself in tears as they announce the full name of each Graduate and I heard my Mum' s name.

I am the middle of 5 siblings, the only one that wasn't given a middle name (even my parents had middle names)
I wanted one as a child. As I felt left out! 2 of my siblings often picked on me about it.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest now.

I have always wished I had a middle name. Not a lot of people did have in my era, but I always thought it would be nice if you weren't keen on your first name' you could use your middle name. I wouldn't have chosen the name my parents gave me but I think it kind of suits me now
I gave both my kids middle names which they don't use, one uses a shortened version of her first name and the other one uses a shortened version of our surname, mainly because that was what the kids at school called him and he is in his 50s now. His wife does give him his proper name as do his sister and I.

Yes I have one, an Old Testament name that nobody can ever spell so I never use it.My Mum isn’t usually given to be fanciful so I don’t know what came over her back then.😁

I too am known by my middle name. It’s an absolute nuisance, and hasn’t been replicated by any of my siblings with our children. They all have middle names in the middle where they belong and can be forgotten or just an initial.

MissAdventure

I think I'd be cross if my siblings had middle names and I didn't.

My brother and sister have middle names which are family names. I am the eldest and they took so long choosing a name I was only given one!

When my eldest granddaughter was born, her Mum gave the middle name of my (then dead) Mother. My daughter and she had always been very close.
I had forgotten about this, and then a couple of years ago, when that Granddaughter graduated from University, I actually burst into tears when her full name was read out, and I heard my Mums' name.

I have a middle name. I have always been known by a diminutive of that name. I have never, apart from officially, been known by my first name which I hate 🤷‍♀️. Crazy!
My children have 2nd names as do 4 of my grandchildren. The other 4 rejoice in 3 names, mostly ‘family’ associated. If I can’t sleep I recite all their names - all 20 - in order of age. I get quite confused 🤔

I’m known by my middle name and I (still) blame the parents, even though I’m 71. My first name is pointless because it’s never been used at all but I always need to enter it on official documents. Still, I have illustrious company in one James Paul McCartney!

I have a middle name ...very pretty one, it's a flower......my 2 boys have their grandads names as their middle names....my DD just has a name I like as her middle name.....one GD has no middle name ....one GD has my name as her middle name....and oldest GD has her GGMs name as her middle name

Neither me nor my two brothers have middle names but all our children have middle names, their children have two names and now I have two great grandchildren, one born just 3 days ago who have two names but hyphenated.

I've got 2,one is after my grandma and I have no idea why the other one is there... But I started with my 2 eldest only having one middle name but my daughter got 2. She has 3 boys who all have 2 middle names.

Also there is nothing posh about middle names.

My mum died 9 months before her great granddaughter was born and her parents gave her the middle name Lily , after my mum .

Sarnia

I have Elizabeth as my middle name as my Grandmothers were Elizabeth and Eliza. In my family at least, middle names are usually family ones.

Yes, Elizabeth is a family name on my mother's side. It is a classic, timeless name that I have always liked and we gave it to our daughter as a middle name. One of my cousins and his wife decided to give their youngest daughter two middle names in honour of the two grandmothers. Sadly, the names were extremely dated, along the lines of Vera and Mildred. We felt very sorry for the poor child.

Yes but I wont be disclosing it on here, same as I wouldn't disclose my real name.

MissAdventure

Is that a tongue in cheek comment, Kitty, or do you feel the name business was a way to show favouritism by your mum?

Not tongue in cheek, MissA. A fact of life.