What is your middle name?

[TheTealOtter]

If you have one and only if you're comfortable sharing of course!

Isabella

Isobel

Gail.
My parents gave me a first name that I don’t like and messed up with my middle name too so I can’t use that instead.

Louise! Such a pointless placeholder 😂

Lee. Late 80s baby

Clare

Philadelphia. Born in the 50s and named after my maternal grandmother. It was also my mum’s sister’s name. Unfortunately she died young so didn’t know her.

Wasn’t keen on it as a child but like it now.

So many Louises! Maybe I should be grateful for Crystal 🤣

Mine is too outing but the thread has reminded me of a French friend living in the UK who was discussing baby names with a group of us when she was pregnant about 15 years ago. She announced that they had decided on “an unusual French name” for a girl, that we might not have heard of as it wasn’t very common in the UK… Louise 😂 She was (luckily) quite amused to find out that half the women there, along with half the women born between 1970 and the early noughties, had Louise as a middle name.

Mary Jean after my grandmothers. I was born in the early 70s and found my middle names very embarrassing. I used to wish it was Jane or Louise like all the other girls my age! 😆

My middle name is the same as my mum's first name and she was named after a 1940s film star.

Sue - parents obviously wanted something snappy although to be fair my first name and surname are quite long. Late 60's baby.

Clare - born late 60s. My older sister got the other possibility of that era for middle names - Jane. Dad named my sister after Jane Fonda and me after Claire Bloom but my mum insisted on no "i" as she wanted English spelling 🤷🏻‍♀️

We both have first names that were quite unusual at the time so I like that we had the balance.

Ooh Rita? Marlene? Ingrid? Lauren? Veronica?

😀

I would have said Jane, Elizabeth or Anne - I missed the invasion of the Louises! I grew up with quite a few first name Louises who were a couple of years younger than me (i.e. born in the early 80s) and now I'm wondering what their middle names could have been.

Louise is a super popular baby name in France at the moment.

Jane

Joanne 1980

Collette

Louise of course

Katie

Haven’t seen another Ellen on the thread yet!

I was born in 1994.

Weirdly, I can remember the middle names of many of my cohort (because IIRC we all decided to irritate the hell out of the staff by going by our middle names for a while). We had a Sheila, Lucy, Dawn, Mary, Victoria, Kathleen, Ruth, Judith and even a Sharples in amongst all the Janes and Anns.

Courtney

And I hate it.

Another June and I love it too

Stacey