Do you like your middle name?

[ccharles000]

I kinda like mine but it is a little dorky.

-It is Eugene

[MissHoneychurch]

1. Not really

mine is Charlotte and in German it sounds very hard. French or English is OK, but not German. If you ever call me that .... you are no longer my friend

[ccharles000]

2. it is a lovely name

The largest city here in North Carolina is Charlotte.

[MissHoneychurch]

4. I know

I did my nanny time near Charlotte, in Davidson.

[ccharles000]

6. I live in Greensboro north of Charlotte.

[MissHoneychurch]

7. All I can say about Greensboro

is that I passed through on my way to Raleigh and/or Greenville.

[Pacifist Patriot]

32. I hated my first name and dumped it in favor of my middle name when I was married.

So my middle name is now legally my maiden name, which I do like. So much it is my son's middle name too.

[TexasLady]

3. no, not particularly

Im a girl named 'sue', in the middle

I like my first name just fine.

[LiberalEsto]

5. No

It's Irene. So 1940's.

[ccharles000]

10. I like Irene

[JonLP24]

8. I do. I have the same middle name as Walter Cronkite

[bigwillq]

9. Eugene is my Dad's.

I like mine. William, hence the "will" in my DU user name.

[Richardo]

25. "Eugene" is my dad's too.

Mine is very ordinary. But I was named for my dad's brother so I like it very much.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. No, it's my mother's first name

[MissMillie]

12. not by itself

but I prefer that people use my first and middle name together. It's very pretty (I think) that way.

[NV Whino]

13. I like the name just fine.

I just wish it wasn't mine.

[Shell Beau]

14. Sure. It is Marie, after my mom.

[Aristus]

15. It's Robert. It's the name I answer to. Nobody calls me by my first name.

Last person that did, they still haven't found the body...

[Left Is Write]

16. Yes, I do

[redqueen]

17. No.

It didn't go with the other two when I used my maiden name. Now I guess it fits well enough... but I still don't like it.

[blue_onyx]

18. I like dorky...own your dorkiness, lol

I don't like my first name (I'm a jr. and hate it) or my middle name.

[auntAgonist]

19. yes I do! it's Bailey. n/t

[surrealAmerican]

20. No. It's one of those "end in a 'y'", diminutive names.

I thought about using it instead of my first name when I was a kid (other kids used to make fun of my first name), but I'm glad I never did. It doesn't suit me at all.

[ceile]

21. I have a very common middle name.

I still like it though. Elizabeth.

[fizzgig]

56. that's mine, too

i like it

[Rob H.]

22. Yep

Mine's Derek, German for "ruler of the people" or "power of the tribe." Now bow to me, dammit! BOW! :silly:

[Inchworm]

23. I like my name

I really don't like being called by my first name fully unless by certain people.

Greg will do.

:D

EDIT: Thought I'd add a song.

I've Got a Name - Croce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqauC49Xmc

:hug:

[PRETZEL]

24. I actually do,

it's Alan.

[MrsMatt]

26. Used to hate it, now I like it

Esther

For my dad's aunt, who died a few years before I was born.

[Tektonik]

27. Ahmad

[JitterbugPerfume]

28. I dislike it

It is Joyce , which is not half as bad as my first name

When It came to names , mom was not a good picker!

[Parche]

29. eugene?

:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi::hug: :hug:

[datasuspect]

30. Xandor Bartakemus Balthasar?

[KamaAina]

31. It was supposed to have been my first name

with "Xavier" as the middle name.

Dad was Catholic. Mom's not. Her parents exercised the executive veto.

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[ghostsofgiants]

34. Mine is Mikael.

I like it.

[Deja Q]

35. Hated mine as a kid - love it as an adult. It's very British.

:D

[sammythecat]

36. It's ok, but I'm biased.

It was my father's name (Lloyd), but I do thank God they didn't decide to make me a junior.

I like Eugene though. I always thought Gene was a cool name for a guy, and for some reason I find the name Jean for a girl almost irresistible. Must be associations involved there I guess.

[Justyce]

37. I didn't as a kid, but now as an adult,

realizing that my Dad picked it out and insisted on it because he thought it was so beautiful, I love it :)

[unpossibles]

38. I hated it growing up

but I like it now. Plus, it's my mother's maiden name and a family name, so it is nice to have something to remember her by whenever it gets said.

It's Paris, btw. For a while, I hated Paris Hilton for besmirching it, but... eh. She'll burn out soon enough.

[Kat45]

39. I like mine, which I chose myself.

My parents didn't give me a middle name when I was born because they figured I could choose my own at my Confirmation. (In the Catholic Church, you chose a saint's name for a middle name at Confirmation, round middle school age. Most kids never used them later because they already had a middle name. Sine I didn't have one already I used mine, happy to finally have a middle name.) Considering the weird choices I could have made at that age, I'm happy that I chose a good name. I don't like my first name, and I kind of wish I had started going by my middle name as an adult. Oh, well.

[jmm]

48. That's kind of how my grandfather got his

middle name. He was the last of six kids. His older siblings had middle names but I think his parents ran out of names by the time they got to him ;-).

When my brother and I made our confirmations and some people tried talking my brother out of taking a friend's name as his confirmation name. Our grandfather then admitted he picked Thomas as his confirmation name since people told him he was a "Doubting Thomas." He uses that as his middle name.

My confirmation name was misspelled and I stopped going to church soon after that so I never used mine. People rarely use my real middle name unless they want something. Apparently it makes me sound "innocent."

[tabbycat31]

40. I used to hate it but it's grown on me

my middle name is Bryant, which is my mom's maiden name.

As a kid I hated it because it was too masculine for my likings. I was originally going to be Caroline Elizabeth, but my parents ultimately decided against it with a last name that starts with O (think of the initials) AS I got older and realized that three last names have been lost over the last 3 generations in my mom's family, my middle name was the only chance to make the name live on. I'm now proud to carry on a lost last name.

[friedgreentomatoes]

41. Don't have one!

:cry:

[ccharles000]

45. ...

:hug:

[friedgreentomatoes]

53. Thanks

:hug:

[Bucky]

42. My middle name is entirely utilitarian

"Lee"

Cause I'm from the South. How lame. Until my dad came along, my patrilinear line had a long tradition of giving the first born son his father's first name as his own middle name. That was kinda cool, but for some reason--it being the 60's, I guess--my folks decided to end that tradition with me. I'd've started it up again myself, but I only had one daughter and "Gregory" would sound funny on a girl.

[Bucky]

43. Just don't give your son the middle name Wayne

Bad things happen to guys middle-named "Wayne"

[SalmonChantedEvening]

44. I like mine

It's an uncle and a grandfather's first name on Mom's side, and an uncle on Dad's side.

Robert John. :hi: :)

[femmocrat]

46. I don't have one either!

Unusual?

[elshiva]

47. Eugene is a good name. My middle name is Ann.

I like it. :) :hug:

[Kali]

55. That was mine. Ann

Now I use my maiden name for a middle (usually just the initial).

[BarenakedLady]

49. It's Joan and yes.

I was named for my aunt (my mother's sister). She passed away suddenly about 7 years ago, so I cherish it even more now. She was a truly "classy" lady.

Sometimes she visits with me in my dreams.

[Inchworm]

58. aww

:hug:

[Lady President]

50. I don't think I'll ever have one

I don't have a middle, and I don't think I ever will....

My great-grandmother in the 1890s decided that if she ever had girls, that she wouldn't give them middle name, and they could use their maiden names in place of a middle name. It sounds quaint now, but this was very progressive at the time. My grandmother and her two sisters used their maiden name as a middle name after they were married. My three cousins did the same thing. I doubt that I will ever marry (and I'm not sure I would change my name anyway).

[bluesbassman]

51. Yeah, I do now.

Not so much when I was a kid, thought it sounded kind of odd. As I grew older, I realized that I was odd, so it worked out ok.:P

Ended up giving my daughter the same middle name. It's Leighton.

[mentalsolstice]

52. Being married and taking my husband's last name...

my middle name is my maiden name. However, we have had the discussion about me going back and changing my last name back to my maiden name (it's a beautiful name, while my husband's surname is pretty white milk and potatoes). When we got married I didn't really think it through, but now I regret changing my name. However, my husband is a little squeamish about me changing it back, especially after his dad died last year. I don't know, any week I may go down and change me back to the beautiful surname (Flora) I was born with.

[MilesColtrane]

54. Yes. It's Clinton.

No relation, though, to either George or Bill.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

57. Sure. It's what I answer to.

I absolutely HATE doctor's office forms and all other bureaucratic forms who want:

First name, middle initial only, last name.

So I had doctor's offices call me at work and ask to speak to "First name" and they hung up on them!!!

Now, since I don't have to deal with insurance bureaucrats, having no health insurance, I ask the doctors to call me by my middle name, and I underline it on the form. They usually ignore that. :grr:

I am one of those weirdos that goes by their middle name. I think we need to demand equal rights.

[flvegan]

59. Love it. My grandfather on my mom's side.

Honestly, I'm not worthy of it. He was a much better man than I am.

[Mugu]

60. My middle name is the same as my dad's first name.

William. It's pretty much neutral.

[Lyric]

61. I love it. It's Leigh.

Brandy Leigh.

:)

[ashling]

62. Yes

it is my mother's maiden name.

[Drunken Irishman]

63. I don't mind it. Pretty common middle name.

Michael, named after St. Michael.