Your Middle Name

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Do you have a middle name? What is it? Do you like it?

Is it a typical one of its time?

Mine is Susan, born in the early 70s.
From memory, school friends at the time had Ann (more commonly without the ‘e’), Louise, Jane, Marie, Elizabeth and Claire.
I can’t remember anyone with Grace, May/Mae or Rose, which seems to be very popular at the moment.

One of the standard 70s ones here.

I have my Mum's maiden name for my middle name. Bit of a tradition in parts of Scotland...

Yes, Ruth. I like it, I like the Bible connection and the meaning. I wouldn't say it was particularly of it's time, lots of girls my age had Louise, Marie or Jane

My middle name is Elizabeth; I was born in the year of the silver jubilee. I don't particularly like it but don't have much cause to use it.

DH born same year - middle name Elvis, who died that year. He hates it!

Louise (born early 90’s), think it’s a bit boring but my mum and my cousin have the same middle name.
I chose DD’s because I write scholarly articles based on them! It’s Brontë, we love it. DS’s is going to be Merlin (when he’s born - 7 weeks to go), we like literary names.

My two middle names are totally outing. They are family surnames. I like them both and like having two middle names although it was a pain growing up since most official forms only allowed for one.

Mine is so boring, I made up a more interesting one.

(Jane / Alexandria)

Born in the late '70s, my middle name is Katrice. Apparently my mother was reading the Radio Times whilst pregnant with me and saw the name "of a Shakespearian actress" and liked it enough to lumber me with. Had no idea how to spell it properly until I was about 7, and because of the way it's pronounced ("Cat-rice"), led to that becoming my older brothers nickname for me (they got away with Francis and Peter...).

Sadly, a few years ago, I read about the case of a little girl called Katrice Lee who tragically disappeared in Germany on her second birthday - she'd be 43 now to my 45 - and has literally never been found. She's the only other English (her family were military, like mine) "Katrice" that I know of.

None for me but pretty much every girl I knew had either Rose, Grace or Marie. No kidding!

(Early 30s)