To think that no one likes their middle name?

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My DDs like each other’s middle names, but not their own. DH and I don’t like ours. Extrapolating to the rest of the world, no one likes their middle names, but I am not sure why.

My DS HATES his. Has done since he realised he had one - around 3 years, and gets really cross if it is mentioned. He is 6 now. I was flummoxed by how strong his reaction was. No one else we know has it now are we aware that it has any negative connections for him.

To be honest, all my siblings and DH hate their too, so in my experience YANBU.

I don't have one to dislike.

I love mine and wish that I had decided to ask people to call me by it when I was younger. I'm in my forties now, which seems a bit too old to change to using it as my everyday name.

I like mine. Although together with my first name it does sound rather posh. My parents must have had high hopes.

Always disliked mine as i have 3! When i applied for my first passport there weren’t enough boxes so they had to give me an extra sheet.

I would prefer to choose my own. All mine are elderly relatives i never met, but i would love to have either my maternal nan’s christian or middle name as my middle name.

I have 2 middle names. I hate my first name, it is very 'of its time' and ugly to boot. I like my first middle name and get called that by most of my family - it's a much nicer name. My second middle name is OK and I'd happily be called by it.

DD likes her first name (hates the name I almost called her) and often gets called by her middle name (or both names when she's in trouble!)

I like mine. It is a shortened version of both my grandmothers names.

Don't like mine but that's probably because it's one of the filler names of my generation. Only good thing is that my DM choose the less common spelling.
As a result my DCs both have long middle names which I think are lovely (they haven't complained yet) and I could have easily given them it as their first name.

I like mine, despite sharing it with almost every other girl born in the mid-late 70s.

I know several people including my father and best friend who prefer their middle names so much that they use it as their name for everything except official forms.

Just asked my children - DS1 loves one of his middle names and isn't mega keen but doesn't dislike his other middle name. DS2 loves his first middle name and couldn't remember what his second middle name was until I just reminded him (he's 5, but surely should know his own full name!). He liked it anyway.

I don't have one, baby will because despite friends embarrassed by theirs or who hate them I always wished I had one. At sixth form found out two of my friends had the following; male friend Elmer, female friend Myfanwy (No Welsh connection in her family whatsoever) this resulted in much hilarity, Elmer is still called Elmer despite his boring and traditional first name, his now wife was very confused when she first met us and none of us use his first name.

I don't like mine, but it is my mum's name and therefore I like it.

My first name is objectively a much nicer name, though. So I am fortunate.

I don't use my middle name in my day to day life.

I don’t like mine. My partner prefers her middle name to her first name and my DD likes her.

I am not mad about mine but it is much nicer than my first name, however I didn't use it instead of my first name because it had the same ending as my surname so sounded really odd.

I use my middle name as by business surname - so as a designer I'm 'first name, middle name' rather than 'first name, last name because I like it better and it was my grandmother's name.

My dad forgot my older sisters middle name when he registered me - we both have the same!

I like mine. I used to wish it was my first name when i was younger because it was prettier and has more options for shortening than my very boring first name.

Mine is what I’m called - always has been, always meant that way (to do with the way the names sound together) so I guess my first name is like other people’s middle name... I like it, but it isn’t really ‘me’.

Love mine, named after my nan

Mine is very ordinary but I like it because it 'goes with' my first name.

One of my DDs absolutely loves her middle name

I like mine and have only ever been referred by my middle name, so I changed it by deed poll. I don't have a middle name now.

I have a double barrelled first name so no middle name. I don't like my name though. NOT because it's hyphenated before the 'hyphenated names are this that the other lot start', just because I don't like the names.

I like mine. Its a weird combination of both my grans names. Sounds like a more common name, just spelt very strangely.

I love mine and when I was a kid I preferred it to my first name. It was very unusual then but now there's a famous person with it. I still think it's lovely.

Mines horrible. My mum has the view that middle names don't matter as no one really uses them. She couldn't understand why I didn't want to use family names on my DC that were awful and didn't go. I made sure my DC all have nice middle that go well with their first names.