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What is your middle name?

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TheTealOtter · 02/06/2025 18:50

If you have one and only if you're comfortable sharing of course!

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Thepossibility · 04/06/2025 06:50

Naomi

Partridgewell · 04/06/2025 06:38

Clare. My first name begins with an L so perhaps that's why my middle name isn't Louise, like the rest of my cohort 🤣

DD is 21 and her middle name is Christine. She used to be really embarrassed by it but is now pleased that it's not Grace, Rose or Mae.

foreverwingingitt · 04/06/2025 06:29

Mary - same as my mum and nan!

JustAboutMuddlingThrough · 04/06/2025 06:26

Stacey

peoplegetready · 03/06/2025 22:06

Another June and I love it too

Pinkbakewell · 03/06/2025 21:40

Courtney

And I hate it.

SpannerCockerel · 03/06/2025 20:31

tobee · 03/06/2025 19:21

Clare - born late 60s. My older sister got the other possibility of that era for middle names - Jane. Dad named my sister after Jane Fonda and me after Claire Bloom but my mum insisted on no "i" as she wanted English spelling 🤷🏻‍♀️

We both have first names that were quite unusual at the time so I like that we had the balance.

Weirdly, I can remember the middle names of many of my cohort (because IIRC we all decided to irritate the hell out of the staff by going by our middle names for a while). We had a Sheila, Lucy, Dawn, Mary, Victoria, Kathleen, Ruth, Judith and even a Sharples in amongst all the Janes and Anns.

DPface · 03/06/2025 20:26

Haven’t seen another Ellen on the thread yet!

I was born in 1994.

cherriesss · 03/06/2025 20:14

Katie

ilikeeggs · 03/06/2025 20:03

Louise of course

greengreyblue · 03/06/2025 20:00

Collette

Ihopeithinkiknow · 03/06/2025 19:59

Joanne 1980

Mimilamore · 03/06/2025 19:48

Jane

Charlottejbt · 03/06/2025 19:32

WhatIsAScottishEgg · 02/06/2025 21:55

Jayne. If you were born late 70s or early 80s it was highly likely you'd have Jane, Elizabeth or Louise.

I would have said Jane, Elizabeth or Anne - I missed the invasion of the Louises! I grew up with quite a few first name Louises who were a couple of years younger than me (i.e. born in the early 80s) and now I'm wondering what their middle names could have been.

Louise is a super popular baby name in France at the moment.

tobee · 03/06/2025 19:24

Avantiagain · 03/06/2025 18:05

My middle name is the same as my mum's first name and she was named after a 1940s film star.

Ooh Rita? Marlene? Ingrid? Lauren? Veronica?

😀

tobee · 03/06/2025 19:21

Clare - born late 60s. My older sister got the other possibility of that era for middle names - Jane. Dad named my sister after Jane Fonda and me after Claire Bloom but my mum insisted on no "i" as she wanted English spelling 🤷🏻‍♀️

We both have first names that were quite unusual at the time so I like that we had the balance.

PrincessSoles · 03/06/2025 18:18

Sue - parents obviously wanted something snappy although to be fair my first name and surname are quite long. Late 60's baby.

Avantiagain · 03/06/2025 18:05

My middle name is the same as my mum's first name and she was named after a 1940s film star.

pinkchampagne1 · 03/06/2025 16:46

Mary Jean after my grandmothers. I was born in the early 70s and found my middle names very embarrassing. I used to wish it was Jane or Louise like all the other girls my age! 😆

KnickerFolder · 03/06/2025 16:36

Mine is too outing but the thread has reminded me of a French friend living in the UK who was discussing baby names with a group of us when she was pregnant about 15 years ago. She announced that they had decided on “an unusual French name” for a girl, that we might not have heard of as it wasn’t very common in the UK… Louise 😂 She was (luckily) quite amused to find out that half the women there, along with half the women born between 1970 and the early noughties, had Louise as a middle name.

Andoutcomethewolves · 03/06/2025 16:22

So many Louises! Maybe I should be grateful for Crystal 🤣

2doglady · 03/06/2025 16:22

Philadelphia. Born in the 50s and named after my maternal grandmother. It was also my mum’s sister’s name. Unfortunately she died young so didn’t know her.

Wasn’t keen on it as a child but like it now.

loopsaloo · 03/06/2025 16:03

Clare

AutumnOcean · 03/06/2025 15:52

Lee. Late 80s baby

girljulian · 03/06/2025 15:11

Louise! Such a pointless placeholder 😂

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