What's your middle name(s), and do you like it?

Richard no

Franklin after my father and Benjamin Franklin

Floyd. Born in 1966. I love it.

Craig. I wish it was my first name.

My middle name is also my uncle's first name. It’s a derivative of Elbridge Gerry, fifth Vice-President’s, last name, and it is always pronounced wrong. So no, I don’t like it. I have surrendered to the mispronunciation, though.

It is a funny coincidence that my family hales from the same town as old Elbridge. No intermarriage, as far as I know. This is why I advise people to give their kids two middle names. Even if one of them is unofficial. One that is a family name, and one that is plain and normal, so the kid can go by that if it likes.

Steven - don't really care. My first name on the other hand 4 generations of males in my family have the same one.

I don’t have a middle because my mother thought they were antiquated, but I guess they’re nice to have in case you aren’t satisfied with your first and want to go by an alternate. Thankfully, I’m very happy with my first name - Dale.

Floyd is a good name indeed, R3.

Huntley.

It's ok.

Would you also like my social security number and mother’s maiden name!!???

How dare you?!

OP Are you Catholic?

Arthur. I didn’t like it when I was younger but don’t mind it now.

Anthony. Despite it being my mother's favorite saint, I hate it. I have to use it when I notarize documents, but other than that I never do. If forced, I say the A is for Alexander, Albert, Andrew, whatever strikes my fancy.

Mine is also Michael. When I'm feeling fancy I use it with my first name! I was born in 1971. My first name is also one that was popular at the time.

Allllen. It's like a conjunction, or afterthought.

My middle name is my mother's maiden name, and I love it. Ede, pronounced Eed. I'm very close to my cousins on my mother's side, and sharing the name makes me feel even closer.

Michael. My full name is three first names.

Lawrence. It is in no way part of my identity.

[quote] OP Are you Catholic?

Nope.

Anthony Steven Michael

Joseph - my paternal grandfather's name. I was called Johnny Joe as a kid.

Merle. Any more questions?

At least Merle isn't as bad as Earl.

My grandma's middle name was Moon. I love that. Called her Gramma Moon. She was a doll.

R22 That's a push. Shit vs. diorrhea💩

It's a family name, unusual and recognizable, which receives comments when I'm obliged to use it since it is part of my legal name. I like it, am rather proud of what it means to me, but it still feels private.

I have no middle name. First. Last. Done.

Grey. It's alright, I guess. My mom's maiden name.

Vincent. I like it, it’s from my mother french side.

Alfred- if you knew my full name Andrew would be far better. It was my father's and grandfather's middle name.

R23, did your Grammy Moon used to say, "Enjoy it while you can. There'll be none of that in Hell!"

William. Most boring name of all time.

Have you guys with "boring" names ever looked up the origins of your name? It can be pretty cool.

Just put your name in Wikipedia.

For example, George, such a high brow name, actually means peasant.

And Michael, is actually a sentence, a question to be precise: who is like god?

Very strange.

William: desired helmet

Spence. A very old family name. I love it

Beaverhausen. Meaning, the house of the beaver.

Peter, reminds me of my long dead Father so no I don't liiie it

Orion.

R30 She got a kick out of her name being on Frasier!

Fucking

R31, some of us do like your middle name. I've always liked the names William and Wilhelm.

The nicknames Bill and Billy are godawful though.

Leigh. I'm male. My mother must have known in utero that I'd turn out gay.

Mine is William. My father (Norwegian) is Villiam, and the name has been in his family for about 5 generations as far as he can work out. It's a good name, but I prefer the English pronunciation.

Like several others here, my middle name is my mother's maiden name. It's not a name that anyone would ever use as a first name. In my case, my mother, who had named her first 4 children, was under ether when I was born, so my father named me. When she woke up, she was angry (because Irish people always name their children after some relative or other and my first name was not used by any of her relatives), so to mollify her, my father added her maiden name. However, that middle name gives me some special affinity to my cousins (it's their last name), and it also gives me dibs on my grandmother's monogrammed sterling silver.

Another Michael here - 1960. The twist? I’m Hispanic.

Charles. I don't hate it but I'm glad it's not my first name.

Rosebud -- I hate my parents.

It caused me to get fatter and less talented with every year.

Patrick

R12 Funny. Mine is also Anthony, also after my mom's favourite saint, but I really love it. Wish it was my first name.

My best fag hag in college had very hippie parents. They named her Summer’s Eve because she was born on the day before the official start of summer that year. She was still traumatized in college by all the douche/stink pussy/vaginal odor jokes she had to endure in school. I always greeted her by saying complimenting her on how fresh and clean she looked, like a woman who was ready action.......

R51 what does summer‘s eve have to do with smelly vaginas?

Gerard. Yeah, I'm kind of fond of it. It was Scott for three months, then my adoptive parents changed it to Gerard. I refer to them as adoptive parents only in the legal sense. I've never thought of them as anything but my parents. Anybody who raises you and puts up with your crap is your parent. It's great to know I wasn't a 'mistake' or 'accident', as my grandmother told my mother.

What a thing to tell your daughter.

Thomas, after my paternal grandfather who died two years before I was born. He was always referred to as "Tom."

^^^ Forgot to mention...I like it.

R51 Use your google machine. Ask it about Summer's Eve.

My first name Oscar it’s o s c a r. . .

Another middle Michael here. 1952. My parents wanted to make it my first name, but apparently there was a kid next door named Michael and they thought it might get confusing when yelling for me. We moved away by the time I was 3 so it wasn't really an issue.

Damn.

You can lead a horse to water but you just can't make him drink....

Carry on....

[quote] what does summer‘s eve have to do with smelly vaginas?

It's a douche. Kind of like R56.

Mine's Chiquita - I love it.