what is the point of middle names ?

I do too. My middle name gives away my identity to my women.

Tell me about it!

It's a family name!

Would you like to live in a world without Jennifer Love Hewitt?

No but JR or III at end of someone’s name annoys the fuck out of me

OP, why are you complaining? No one refers to you as anything but "cunt," including your whore mother.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

F.U. O.P.

Middle names are OK. Single names like Capucine and Sting annoy me.

But Initials are worst. I hate calling men "Peejay" and Effjay"

It’s such a white thing.

It’s so you can honor a friend or family member without actually giving your kid their first name.

Unfortunately now it’s just an excuse for folks to be “creative”.

We fucking agree.

Middle names let the parents use up 2 names they like, sometimes as a compromise. They also differentiate people, legally.

I like discovering people's middle names, for some reason. I have no idea why.

Italians don’t have middle names.

Mine is a family name - my mother’s maiden. I don’t mind it at all.

Reasons vary....

For Roman Catholics and some other Christian religions children (or adults) are generally supposed to have name of at least one saint or martyr when baptized, hence first names often being called "Christian names". So if a child's given name was not "Christian" his or her middle name generally was, this and such children also were also named after various patron saints.

Middle names were also given to children to honor godparents or family members. Some children have more than one godparent (of either sex), and or their parents cover many bases by giving multiple saint names.

Princess Victoria baptized Alexandrina after one of her godparents, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and Victoria, after her mother. Additional names proposed by her parents—Georgina (or Georgiana), Charlotte, and Augusta—were dropped on the instructions by Duke of Kent's eldest brother George, Prince Regent.

In fact only reason infant princess got "Alexandrina" was when it came time to actually baptize the child the Archbishop of Canterbury paused after "Victoria" feeling sure a royal infant deserved and should have more than one name. The Prince Regent (already hostile to the Kent family), paused for moment then barked out "give her the name of her godfather, but it cannot follow after the mother". Thus Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent was so christened. Upon coming to the throne Victoria took that name only totally dropping Alexandrina...

Please shut up, r17

Other reasons for middle name?

Giving a child the maiden name of its mother as a means of continuing use of same in an era when virtually all married women took the name of their husband's family, Richard Milhous Nixon is an example....

Then you have the whole Spanish and Slavic patronymic naming customs were the "middle" name isn't what Americans believe it to be, but part of surname.

[quote]what is the point of middle names ?

For dramatic flourish.

- Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

No wonder he just stuck with Pablo Picasso.

In our Catholic family you needed to have a Saint's name. In my case my first name is a Saint's name and my middle is my mothers maiden name.

George is the patron saint of England, which explains why if not first that name is usually part of the heir's name somehere.

Ditto for Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), and Andrew (patron saint of Scotland) .

Charles is derived from Charlemagne name of great king and emperor. This explains why so many English/British, French and other European royals have "Charles" as their primary given name or one of their "middle names". There is also Saint Charles Borromeo so the name ticks at least two boxes.

Charlemagne was Carolus Magnus throughout Europe, and from him we get the words król (Polish), král (Czech), király (Hungarian), король (Russian), crai (Romanian), etc., all of which means "king."

OP = Worse than Adolph Peaches Hitler

r2, that's my name too!

[quote]It’s such a white thing.

Not really.

Some of us have common names. Middle names help sort us out. I also have another name (a confirmation name) which is fun because you get to pick your own.

John Cameron Swayze, news anchor, game show panelist and spokesperson for Timex watches:

“It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”

[quote] what is the point of middle names ?

Capucine, Sting, Ann-Margret and Bourvil ask what is the point of a second name ?

Sometimes you need it to get a SAG card.

Only a small percentage of people use their middle name in any substantive way.

I look upon them much as I do beauty pageant runners-up. If your first name is no longer available, your middle name can fill the void.

Middle names became an obsession in the 1880s

Society people didn't use the first names in public life but they emphasised the middle name into a compound surname —

F. Scott Fitzgerald, C. Aubrey Smith, J. Carrol Naish, J Edgar Hoover, J Alfred Prufrock.

W. Somerset Maugham, A. Conan Doyle, G Bernard Shaw, V Sackville-West, J Maynard Keynes, R.J. Baden Powell, H Rider Haggard.

C. Montgomery Burns.

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

R34 is an example of the sad intersection of OCD and low intelligence.

Like a rat terrier chasing its stub of a tail.

l like the royal tradition of having many names. Queen Mary (1867-1953) was Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes. Fun!

Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone.

Middle names should be the mother's maiden name. In tell you now so I don't have to say it again.

Middle names honor rich elderly members of the family from whom one wishes to inherit.

My mother-in-law hated 'em, so y'all can just call me "Pickles".

Well, I was christened as Martita Edith Hunt at the Centro Cristiano Príncipe de Paz in Buenos Aires.

But I think the Edith is redundant, don't you?

Some of us have two middle names. And run out of ink.

Mine first name was to honor my great grand father (mothers side) and my mothers maiden name is my middle name. I am also catholic so the first name is also a Saint's name.

Michael J. Fox. Daniel J. Travanti. John C. Reilly. Michael B. Jordan. William H. Macy. Michael C. Hall. Samuel L. Jackson.

...and Charles Nelson Reilly.

If you're multi-racial or multi-national, then a middle name can be used to reflect that.

I like the idea of a mother’s maiden name as a middle name. I believe that is a common practice in Latin countries.

My parents cursed me by using my middle name to address me. So everybody calls me by my second name, but official documents and people who don't know me refer to me by my first. Sometimes, I just use the first in those situations and have grown accustomed to either. Sometimes, I use all three, because I don't know how something is registered. This usually happens when I am receiving an identity challenge associated with some type of account.

Especially annoying are all the ladies on Facebook who can't let go of their maiden names. Even worse, those who hypenate them.

R9 how do you feel about epithets?

I have two middle names.

R50

That's wrong, shockingly wrong!

Gollum OP HATESES them, the nasty middle nameses!!!

Hmmm, funny this should come up. I’ve been thinking about changing mine, and even looked up the forms a few days ago (Muriel, you stalking me, gurl?)

Still undecided, though. My current middle names do have useful ‘posh’ cachet as a legacy (the first & surname name of one of my mother’s elderly wealthy relatives), and coincidentally have some interesting relevance to a folkloric figure. However, I dislike it as a name because I think it’s cheesy and old-fashioned, and further to that I dislike the family and the specific relative from whom I inherited them, too. The original bearer (now in her mid-eighties) thinks I’m hopeless white trash and doesn’t trust me, plus miserly as she is I don’t think for a second she’ll leave me anything in her will. The family as a whole are mostly estranged from me and my folks.

Maybe I ought just to change one of my middle names, as a start. I have in mind the name I’m 90% sure I want as an alternative second name, and it wouldn’t even change the initials of my original name. The new second name I want makes subtle reference to my ancestral origins and to my chosen spiritual path, which makes it sound lamer than it actually is.

I like it!

OP, names are what we use to identify people.

Often a middle name is used to honor a family member or a friend or because parents like the name.

OP, if you hate middle names then don't use them.

I don't use my middle name. EVER.

R35 couldn’t even get past r2.

Fucking idiot.

If we didn’t use middle names there’d be havoc in my house.

Fuck you, OP.

Fun fact about r61,

Edgar (or Eddie as he was known in his time) didn’t often use his middle name as he’s referred to today. His middle name was the surname of his stepfather who cut him off from the family fortune when the father left him nothing in his will.

Eddie would rarely use the middle name from then on, and at most would sign Edgar A. Poe.

R48 In Hispanic America we use 2 last names, father's first and mother's second, women don't change last name with marriage, is a wedding not an adoption. That way people have a name, middle names and 2 last name, that identify and individualize everyone, that what names are for, right? I think Brazilians use the mother's name first.

R63 thank you for explaining. I like that tradition a lot, actually. This way you honor BOTH your parents (since BOTH parents made you).

Fuck you, OP!

Gimme one’a them stones!

I was the best Fallon. Right, bitches?

You can never go down to the end of the town if you don't have lots of names.

I like 'em. I wish it was a custom to have four names, which would help with tracking genealogy over time.

John David Smith OR John Michael David Smith?

With four names, the odds decrease of overlap/repetition.

What's 'with this affect of guys marrying who become Charles Smith-Jones and Harry Smith-Jones. The queens must think they're in England.

Are there any Brits on this thread? Because I've always wondered: what happens if Jonathan Smock-Bailey marries Evelyn Smythe-Broad -- they don't become the Smock-Bailey-Smythe-Broads, right? So what do they become???

[quote] I'm actually not a scientist.

But you did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Yes, they do R15

Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno

Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo

Luigi "Baby Shanks" Manocchio

Louis "Cock-Eyed Lou" Fratto

Frank "Fingers" Abbandando, Jr.

George "Butterass" DeCicco

to name a few

OP, you're quite the queen. What does another's having a middle name mean to you? Grow up, missy.

Mine is from a relative, who was named after another relative. I like it.

Use it as your first name for your Onlyfans!

My mother was good at choosing elegant, mellifluous names for her children.

I am quite partial to mine.

My parents were too poor to give us middle names.

I have 2 middle names, and when I sign important documents I put the two initials between my first and last name. It looks very symmetrical.

Sometimes I get things sent to me that just have the first middle initial. This is very upsetting. For reasons which are well known to them.

[italic]“If you can’t do something right, don’t do it AT ALL!”

R71 unless they're quite a consciously forward-thinking, forthrightly liberal, and somewhat bohemian couple, then Evelyn will lose both of her birth-given last names to become Mrs. Smock-Bailey. Simple as that.

Married couples don’t have to change their names at all.

I actually use my middle name as my first name. My first name is an old lady name, so everyone uses my second name. Not until Kindergarten did I even know it; I threw a fit and the nuns let me continue to use my preferred name.

It's princely to have middle names.

Signed,

His royal highness, Christopher Rupert Windermere Vladimir Carl Alexander Francois Reginald Lancelot Herman

You know-nothing!

To annoy you, Op. Is it working?

This thread is currently being reported to a monitor.

Carrie Ann, this cunting OP needs a monitor:

JFK ASSASINATION HARDLY MENTIONED ANYMORE why bring up 60 year old drama? holding on to the past is toxic

what is the point of middle names ? I HATE THEM!

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i sold my lovers dirty underwear should i give him some of the money?

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a prisoner wants my hole this guy on grindr whose pic is him posing in front of what is obviously a prison bunk bed, should i respond?

I think everybody ought to have two middle names,

I am on it. OP will be found out, and dealt with by my cabinet.

I like mine just fine.

I love mine.

Not in your cabinet R90, but RBG and I are on it.

No comment.

I hated my first and middle name. I changed my name and opted not to have a middle name.

Assassins always use their middle names for some reason.

R31 the same thing happened to me when I joined Equity.....I had to use all three of my names......

My middle name is my mother's maiden name and I was always embarrassed by it as a kid.

My middle name used to stalk me after school, and taunt me.