What is your middle name?

[Splellow]

Do you like it? I haven’t got one and have always felt slightly deprived!

Ann.
I don’t mind it.

Same as most girls born in Coronation year, Elizabeth.

[quote MondeoFan]@Topseyt so why didn't your parents use your middle name as your first name instead I wonder? Did they choose your name Debbie Alice for example then just decide to call you Alice?

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I've never really been sure of the answer there, and they have never managed to explain it fully. They seemed to think that putting my names the other way round would have meant that the initials (which would have been HMJ) would have spelt some odd abbreviation or other. It wouldn't. Or not that I can think of anyway. Perhaps something only they would ever have come up with.

I don't object to either of my names. I just don't think they realised what a PITA being known by my middle name could be. They even trip themselves up with it occasionally too. My mother recently sent me a cheque for my birthday made out to me in my middle name. My bank refused to accept it because my names appear on my account in the same order as on my birth certificate. So she had to send another one. It isn't the first time that has happened either.

It is shy I cringe whenever I hear of anyone considering naming their baby in this way.

My grans name Jane. My sister got my other grans name Louise. Just happened to be the most common mns of our generation!

Mine is my mum's first name - not too common in the UK but strangely common as a middle name in America with different spellings (I say strangely as my mum is always moaning about anything American...).
I have a very boring first name to go with it so not much choice as I can't use my middle name as that's my mum!
Most of my year at school were Louise, Jane or Marie.

Pepsi.

Because my mum was addicted to the stuff during her pregnancy with me. Thanks mum!!

Mine is the name I go by and it has been a pain all my life . I probably should just have dropped the first name years ago but it's on everything 'official'. At appointments I have to listen hard for them calling my name as I don't always recognise it instantly when they use the first given name.
My parents gave me 2 names but never ever used the first . There is some back story but when I asked my mum she brushed it off with the answer 'oh I can't remember now, it's so long ago' which is total BS in my opinion. I do know that my parents had a name they liked, but it happened to be the name of my grandmother's 'wicked' stepmother, so they changed it to somethng else similar so as not to upset her. I suspect they just then never liked the name they ended up using.
I actually like the name they rejected so I used it for my own daughter in the end (grandma had died by that point)

My mother and aunts all had 2 middle names. My aunts is Petra which was the dog on Blue Perer when she was a young girl.

Mine is Caryl spelled and pronounced the welsh way. We do live in wales but aren't 1st language welsh.
My sister is Jacqueline and she hates it.

My sis hated having no middle name and decided to give herself one legally! I like
Mine it's Elisabeth- nothing too interesting but I like it

@JustMeG

Another Louise here and 3 DD's with Louise.

You gave your 3 dds the same middle name?
Another Louise here, born in the 60s. My dd also has it, she has said if she has a dd she is going to use it too.

My middle name is Lynn which was super popular during the time I was born. It was probably one of the top three middle names for girls born during my generation in the United States. It goes well with my first name, but it would have been nice to have a middle name that was a family name or had some special meaning or a story behind it. Here in the U.S. it is pretty unusual to have more than one middle name. I think it is a fun tradition though. Both of my parents didn’t care for their middle names and dropped them and my mother in law used her maiden name as her middle because she also didn’t like the one she was given.

@KipperBangs

Pepsi.

Because my mum was addicted to the stuff during her pregnancy with me. Thanks mum!!

Is your first name Shirley ?

Mine is Michelle. It’s fine, I guess. It sounds ok with my first name but it’s boring. I really like my first name, though, which is more important as it’s used much more often.

I was born in 84, surprisingly I don't have Jane or Louise as a middle name or anything that seems tied to a particular decade as far as I'm aware. No family connection just one my parents liked. My first name however is very 80's, I was one of a handful at school but I had the less common spelling

@hopeisaprison yes me too

I don't have one and I was always madly jealous of people who have one, or two, or even three (amazing!)

I gave my children one middle name each and wish I'd given them two.

I love the names Jane, Anne and Louise - all regal and classy.

Colleen . Much nicer than my first name!

Mine is Ann, I personally don't like it

Jayne.

Same as my mum and sister and niece. My Dd has the same middle name.

It was done really because my grandad wanted to honour his dd from a previous marriage who committed suicide. Her middle name was Jayne so he asked if girls could have the same middle name. He’s long passed now but I still smile when I think of him and though I’m not 100% keen on Jayne, it makes me happy to think we’ve honoured his wishes

Mid 80's born here too, the bulk of my friends & year group were either Louise or Jayne x

Louise

If you ask this question in 30 years time everyone will say Rose!

Mid 70’s born here and middle name same as my DM, Sarah.

Clare, late 70s. I don't have any strong feelings about it, but think I would have preferred to have a family name as an mn. Mine was chosen because my parents liked it, but it didn't sound great with my surname.

My kids all have family names as middle names.

Mine is Mae, I was born in the 70s. It’s a family name on my mums side, it was my great grandmothers, grandmothers, Aunts and now it’s mine and my daughters. Seems quite fashionable now so that’s nice.