Initial for Middle name?

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Hi all

Just as the subject says really -
Could I register my newborns birth with just an initial for the middle name?

For example:

Michael P Jones

The P is for personal reasons but would prefer not to use the entire name

Let me know if I can do this please!

I live in London, UK

Many thanks

I wouldn't like this. It'll be something he has to continually explain too.

I wouldn't like to have a name that was purely to represent something else. And not.even a name itself.

Don't be silly.

The thing is, it's not your name. It's not a thing you are choosing for yourself, for whatever is meaningful to you.

You are naming a person. A person who then has to spend their whole life with the name you have chosen for them. I really think the least you can do is choose them an actual name, not just a letter. He's the one who will have to spend his whole life dreading being asked what his middle name is and then explaining that he doesn't have one but yes, the letter is on his birth certificate, and no, he doesn't know what his mother was thinking.

Just pick a name and be kind to your child, rather than have some weird mysterious reference that's only meaningful to you.

I like Michael very much.
If the surname is something as common as Jones, the middle name is likely to be used quite a lot.

Just pick a name you like that starts with a P.
Michael Philip
Michael Peter
Michael Paul
Michael Patrick
Michael Ptolemy
Michael Peregrine
...

or use a surname as a middle name. Pick a P surname from your family tree or just one you like.
Powell
Pettigrew
Price
Patterson
Palmer
...

Pick a name you like beginning with P. Or the kid will find themselves forever trying to explain that they are just P.

Could you imagine in school
KidA "Michael is actually called Michael Penis but doesn't tell people"
KidB "Michael what does the P stand for"
Michael "Nothing it's just P"
KidA "See, told you"

Very hard to prove it's just P and kids will make anything up.