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Elaborate middle names

Jabbawolf

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Given the R for Biden being Robinette, I wondered whether anybody else had a middle name they don’t volunteer too easily.

Mine is a rather dull Ian, though my brother got Melville, after my dad’s Professor at Uni (loser!), and my son has Roland after his maternal grandfather.
 
Mine is dull too - Jayne. I don't think it is from anywhere in particular/bears any meaning either!
 
I have two middle names weirdly, Owen (my Grandad’s name) and Dowdeswell (my mum and the same Grandad’s surname). Bloody welsh people... my last name isn’t hyphenated thank god!!!
 
Mine is David after my Dad, rather dull.

My kids have Lunda middle names, that'll be fun for them to spell out when older :)
 
My middle name is Edwin. Unsurprisingly, I don’t like to mention this too often!

It was my Granddad’s name and is also my Dad’s middle name. I haven’t inflicted it onto my son, however.
 
Wolvensam said:
Mine is dull too - Jayne. I don't think it is from anywhere in particular/bears any meaning either!
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different spelling of Jane which is a biblical name I think.
neither me or my missus have second names although 2 of our grand kids have slightly unusual names, Scout Aiofe, her parents are both obsessed with 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and both sides of the family have Irish ancestory.
Grandsons is Ruaridh.......mum is a jock
 
James, my English grandad's middle name. Thankfully my parents steered clear of his first name - Eric!
 
Lupo said:
James, my English grandad's middle name. Thankfully my parents steered clear of his first name - Eric!
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Oi, my son is called Eric!
 
Nothing elaborate here, just plain Jane.

What I don't get ( in my husband's case) is when parents name their child, and from them on nobody, and I mean nobody ever calls them by the first given name, they are always and always will be known by their middle name.
 
TruWolf said:
Nothing elaborate here, just plain Jane.

What I don't get ( in my husband's case) is when parents name their child, and from them on nobody, and I mean nobody ever calls them by the first given name, they are always and always will be known by their middle name.
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Not sure why that happens.

My nan's brother was always called Jack but apparently his given name was actually John, same for her one brother in law too.

Our MD at work is always known by Paul but he's actually John and Paul is his middle name but he's got both initials represented on his personalised number plate so it's not like he's going all in to cover it up.

Seems to be a lot of people trying to avoid the name John in my life.
 
being from a good Irish family my middle name is Brendan but I dodged the bullet that was fired at one of my brothers...
Mum and Dad had a habit of giving us a middle name of the church we were to be baptised in but once that was done they moved on. (I was baptised in St Brendan’s church, Corby). My brother in question was actually born in Ireland and was baptised at St Mary’s!
so he got the wonderful “Joseph Eugine Mary” as his name... he goes by Joe and when asked would always say that the “M” was for Michael 😂
 
Ex-girlfriend of mine was from one of the "old" South West families that can trace their lineage back to the stone age, or something like that. Every female in the family for hundreds of years has the middle name Kemp. They were Spandau Ballet fans before they were even a thing.
 
Tredman said:
Mine is David after my Dad, rather dull.

My kids have Lunda middle names, that'll be fun for them to spell out when older :)
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Im David too.

As fate turns out my best mate is David Michael and I'm Michael David.
TruWolf said:
Nothing elaborate here, just plain Jane.

What I don't get ( in my husband's case) is when parents name their child, and from them on nobody, and I mean nobody ever calls them by the first given name, they are always and always will be known by their middle name.
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I have a similar experience of this. My surname is short and Eastern European so I was called by that by everybody except family until I was into my 20's. When I started my first job I'd briefly stutter when people asked my name. Taken a long time to get used to being called Michael or Mike.
 
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