MIDDLE NAMES

[MARTIN1]

To think middle names, serve no useful purpose and are given by pretentious parents to include older relatives names or because you couldn't agree with your partner on just one forename.

MWE describe it thus:

Name, Middle
The name you try to hide because it is so crap. Often it is a name that has been passed from generation to generation through the family and which you have been given to keep your granny happy. This knowledge is sod all use when you are having the shit kicked out of you in the playground for being called Windermere.

[Pedestriana]

One of my friends has 4 middle names as they are from posh stock. I don't know the rationale as their parents are dead but they could have been using the names to be pretentious. Friend with said names is not.

Middle names offer options and alternatives and can be used to commemorate those we've loved and lost.

[FenellaFellorick]

ha! yes, I can relate. Me too!

[LiviaDrusillaAugusta]

Half of our cats were boys as well In fact her colleagues thought she had sons as well as a daughter as she was always talking about them - I realised very early on my place in the pecking order

[FenellaFellorick]

mad, isn't it?

My mum used to run through about six names before getting to me. I wouldn't mind but 5 of them were cats!

[LiviaDrusillaAugusta]

Fenella I used to get called by the cats' names too

[LiviaDrusillaAugusta]

OP you come across in a way that is not going to endear you to other people, with your oh-so-generous plan that your DP could only name a boy and that you would veto any middle name.

Still, I imagine it's not really an issue because you may struggle to find a DP who would want to have a child with you.

[FenellaFellorick]

I agree.

I knew I was in trouble if my mum said my name instead of my sister's or the cat's but I knew I was really going to cop it if I got Fenella Ursulie Castiliana Karina Fellorick.

That was hide under the bed time, that was.

[HighwayDragon]

But if a child doesn't have a middle name how will they know when they're really in trouble my mum shouting HIGHWAY DRAGON is bad enough but HIGHWAY MORTIMER DRAGON?

[FarFromAnyRoad]

Maryz

Oh fuck off you twat

Best. Comment. Ever. Well, to this particular twat it is and I'm sure it could cover a multitude of potential twats and their twattery.

[Fluffyears]

I feel left out. I have no middle name. My father wanted to call me something god awful so my mother had to think fast as my name s the same as an actress which I like. My brother had no middle name as my mum didn't want the family arguments about naming him after someone. Mum has always been referred to by her middle name.

[FithColumnist]

My middle name's Geraint. It's a bugger to spell and nobody in England seems to pronounce it right anyway.

Apropos of which, AIBU to wish my middle name was Windermere?

[WorldsBiggestGrotbag]

I chose both my DDs' middle names because I like them. No other reason. So they have no point other than that they sound pretty (IMO). And I'm fine with that

[NiNoKuni]

Oh, and the closest his dad has got to cricket is once driving past Old Trafford.

[NiNoKuni]

I don't have a middle name. My DS has two. Yes, two whole middle names. One from an ancestor on each side of the family, and his first name is an ancestral name too. Everyone says he sounds like a future prime minister, so give it forty-odd years and if the PM has 2 middle names, you'll be able to say 'I briefly read a comment from some rando on MN and it was the PM's mum', you lucky thing

[SoupDragon]

What utter nonsense!

[SamJohnsonsBoy]

With boys, 2 middle names is a sure sign that Dad plays cricket. "A B C Jones" is thought to look better on the score card than "A B Jones" for some reason.

I'm not familiar with women's cricket so can't say if it's the same with girls' middle names.

[SoupDragon]

PMSL @ "deal breaker".

Middle names are essential so that you can escalate the name depending on how naughty the child is being. DS2 often needed both his middle names and the surname.

[Ilovecrapcrafts]

Ours are family names and we also take confirmation names

[Whiskwarrior]

Somewhere there's a beacon flashing in the sky, Maryz.

We just need the third creep of late now and we'll have a full house.

[rosy71]

We always said we wouldn't give our dc middle names. We both have 2 middle names; my name is long & doesn't fit on forms & dp is known by one of his middle names which makes things confusing. However, when ds1 was born, dp suddenly decided he should have a middle name so I went along with that. When ds2 was born, I was prepared & he has my grandfather's name as a middle name. Other male members of my family also have it & I like the fact that he has dp's surname & a middle name from my family. Both sides are represented. I wish ds1 had a middle name with meaning too.

[vienna1981]

My middle name is Charles and I hate it. I don't know what my parents were thinking of. Maybe they'd run out of reasonable names by the time I was born (seventh child ) so threw caution to the wind and chanced upon a big - eared toff who's got a queen for a mother. Barstuds.

[mochindu]

YABU to call parents pretentious for giving their child two names, while quoting from 'MWE' and expecting anyone to know what the hell you're talking about, then using the word 'thus'.

[NobodyLivesHere]

my children have a middle name because they have a name that reflects where i come from and a middle name that reflects where their dad comes from.