Do you like your middle name?
 

Random thought from a very bored person here. I find it interesting when people get embarassed about their middle name, it's not like people call them by it but still they get all uptight about revealing it. So I thought i'd make a funky poll for you all...yayness.

So post your middle name if you dareeee.

My parents always called me by my middle name, so that's all I've ever gone by. It's Elka, and I don't mind it.

My first name is Judith, which is kind of not my favorite name. If anyone called me Judith, though, I wouldn't get all bent out of shape over it.

My middle names are William George, which were my grandfathers first and middle names. He died before I was born, but I always heard stories about how much ass he kicked, and I figure if he ruled enough for my parents to name me after him, then he ruled enough for me to be cool with having his names.

My middle name is okay, and far easier for people to understand when ordering a pizza than my first name.

it's not that I'm embarassed about my middle name per se, I just don't like it all that much. It's Findlay, my grandmother's maiden name and it's spelled funny. I know there are some worse middle names out there but I can't help but dislike this one. I think it's a little like class pictures, almost nobody likes their own but they can seem really nice to someone else, at least in my experience.

Somehow a a decent chunk of the people I know that are my age ended with Michael as a first or middle name. I don't really mind it as there's nothing inherently wrong with it and people don't refer to me by it anyway but it just seems so generic.

John is pretty normal for a middle name, or a first name for that matter.

I am AJW the 3rd. My kid would possibly be the 4th if I name him something starting with A and J.

My middle name is Robinson which is kinda weird cause most of the time it's a last name. It's cool though cause it's a family name that has been passed down for quite some time. It goes back to a guy named Christopher Robinson (Chris is also my first name) 1645-1692 a famous Virginian, who was a member of the House of Burgessess, governor's council, and eventually the secretary of state of the colonies. He built this awesome plantation house called Hewick which is now a historic site. His name is actually printed on one of the pews in Bruton Parish Church in Coloniel Williamsburg.

However most of the time when people find out that my middle name is Robinson they try to make some sort of Winnie the Pooh reference, but then of course they're wrong cause the fictional character is Christopher Robin, and not Robinson.

God damn, Williamsburgland.
I know man, they got some fat-ass pussy and some big-ass titties in Williamsburgland.
I heard it was motherfuckin' Williamsburg dawg, where the titties so low.
God DAMN we are right outta mammal sauce.

Meh, mine is okay. I'm not ashamed of it, but I also don't go around announcing my middle name to people.

My middle name is William, which was my grandfather's name. I don't it too much, though now I have a cousin with William as his first name too. Feels overused I guess.

Not every boy in my country named "Michel". Most of time people thought my name "Michelle." But well, I love my middle name a lot. But I never address myself with it.

I have my grandfathers middle name and I don't like it. I hate it. I despise it.
I don't tell anyone and only people that have known me for a while know about it. Other than that only my birth certificate shows my middle name, anywhere else it doesn't exist.

Hey pals, some people don't have any middle names. Tough shit, heh?

AHHH YEEEEAH SON! Williamsburg represents the Bud, the bitches, and the pimp juice 3 cornered hats. Wanna go to Busch Gardens? the BEER theme park?! Theme parks based on beer, that's how we roll in Williamsburg. East coast represent.

actually, i have no idea what the hell you just said.

I've never really had any feelings towards my middle name. It's Kanval. The V is silent. I answer no to the poll because when I was young some guy called Mark read my full name off of the register and went on a "Haha Bisha's middle name is Kanval! That sounds like Camel! HAHA." and that just didn't go well.

French version of Michael... Michel pronounced "Michelle". Not a big fan of it, I usually leave it as "M" and let people's imagination go wild.

My middle name is basically a lot of people's last names in Vietnamese. I don't really mind it, never really thought about it =/.

It's from a ridiculous song called Mammal Sauce by Crotchduster.

I don't have a middle name. ^-^

I don't have a middle name yay

Mine is Noa. I never really got used to it because my parents haven't called me that in about 10 years.

My middle name is the name I go by. Richard David Elliott DeVahl Mason (I hate and love to type all of that out), and I've gone by Elliott most of the time. On official documents I'm shown as Richard, but even then sometimes I go by R. Elliott.

Most of my siblings don't go by their first names. I'm not sure why our parents gave us first names by which they never intended for us to be called. Strangely most of my siblings have four names total where I'm the only one who has an odd number, thus making it easy to pinpoint my middle name. I don't know what one does when he or shee has four names.

zOMG! I will nevar post it here nevar!!

I dunno I just don't like mine all that much. Guess I've met too many fags who have it as a first name.

My middle name was given in honor of my older brother who died within 24 hours after birth. :-\
It's a good name, although kind of commonplace.

I don't mind it sans for the worst name joke known to man. My middle name is Yusuke and you would be suprised how many times people pull the corniest joke with saying " you suck " instead of yusuke.

i dont really like my middle name, though i dont really hate it either.

I don't mind my middle name at all, except for the fact that my dad got it from some football player (It's Torrean, by the way). I don't really use it, and not many people know it, but I don't really try to hide it or anything. My mom calls me Torry sometimes, but not often enough that I would say it's a nickname or anything.

I know that my full name is David Thomas, but hardly anybody knows that I have a middle name. It's not like I hate my name, but it's nothing special. However, it could be worse, having a name like "Heinz-Rüdiger", "Karl-Otto" or whatever.

My middle name is Jacqueline. And I rather like it. I usually sign my name "Danielle J. Bourdon," since it looks more sophisticated. And awesomer.

The middle name is from my god mother, (my aunt - uncle's ex-wife) Jacqueline. I hear she's a real bitch.

Hmmm, my middle name is sorta abandoned. I used to love it a lot but a years passed I slowly forgot I even had one. I think it's Sinclare and when I started signing money orders, checks, etc my middle name would be included. I noticed though that lately, it's just my first and last name. *shrugs*

I love my middle name. Michael. I almost always use my initial when signing my name, and atop that, it just mixes so well with my first name. My first name, Lucas, is from the Hebrew for Bringer of Light, or Lucifer. My middle name, Michael, is the arch-angel who heads god's army in the fight against satan. I love being convoluted. I'm not a hypocrite, I'm just named that way.

My middle name is like, every girl of my generation's middle name: Nicole. I know four other girls with the same one. :(
And I hate being called "Nic" or "Nikky." It's just not my personality.

I've always been wondering: why do people (English speakers seem to have it more opftent) have middle names when they never use it?

In my case, my "middle" name is actually fully integrated to it (very popular in French). However, when I was younger, people made stupid puns about it. Luckily, they grew up :D

I don't mind my middle name. It's simply my mother's maiden name, and it actually makes my initials a bit unique.

My middle name is Charles. It's not ideal, but I hardly ever have to tell it to anyone, anyway.

Patrick. I love it.

I was absolutely determined to name my youngest child Robinson, but everyone threatened that they would just call him "Rob" if I did, including my husband, so I figured why waste such an awesome name if no one is even going to use it.

Anyway, Robinson is pretty much my favorite man's name.

Albert.

No thanks. Atleast they didn't make that my first name like they were thinking of.

L is my middle name, and I fucking love it. There aren't a lot of people with a single letter for a name. My last name rocks too, simply because the word "Shank" is in it. It's my first name thats the problem :(

- WraithTwo -

My middle name's Iris Ann. It's comprised of my Grandmother on my dad's side's first name and my grandmother on my mom's side's middle name. I never had anything aganst them...not to mention I kind of like the names together....

I rather like my middle name. It just sort of rolls off the tongue when included with the rest of my name. It works. More importantly, since it isn't a terribly common name, I get to make people guess it. I would say that 90% of the time they guess some form of Chris first...

Yeah same here. It's common of the Filipinos to do that.

Mine's cool. I like it. It's Galang, which is Tagalog for "respect" I think.

At one point in my time here in college, a small bunch of us pinoys dubbed ourselves the Galang Unit. Liek wut? We had shirts and stuff.

Galang is also M.I.A.'s most well-known single.

I think that's about it for my middle name.

My middle name is Anthony. I have no problem with it at all, and I actually quite like it.

Yeah, I like it, it sounds nice and it has a meaning, even if it's utterly simple. My grandma gave almost all of her kids Japanese names (something her mom did), but I think only my mom, one uncle, and one aunt did the same for their kids. My middle name is Haruko, because I was born in the spring. I always thought it was a nice name because none of my friends could ever find a way to make fun of it like they did with my given name.

Mine is Cole.....

I hate it so much, makes me sound like some country-western dude-ranch fag or something :(

My middle name is Clay. I'm sort of indifferent to it, I guess. I never use it much, so it doesn't seem to represent me that well. Plus, it only sounds good when you use the full version of my first name. Zachary Clay Reid sounds remarkably less awkward than Zack Clay Reid..

I don't have a middle name. :| I feel so left out...

:(

My middle name is Ann. Aside from being boring, it's alright. I don't like my first name, though. =(

Most of the times I do it too. It's bit weird name for non-french In my opinion.

I don't like my middle names at all. Yes, I have two of them. That makes for all the more reason not to tell them. I really have no idea what my parents were thinking when they gave them to me, as if changing the prounoucation of one of them was going to make it sound "cooler".

I don't even bother listing either one when I apply for jobs and stuff. And besides, it's problematic to do so. Most people ask me to choose one over the other, which I never do. Then they try to run both of them together, which doesn't work. My driver's license is a mess of four names. Yuck.

My middle name is my Chinese name so yes, I do have some sort of fondness for it. It's only for legal reasons they even put my Chinese name in there, they're in actuality two seperate entities so I guess, technically, I don't even have a middle name. Huh.

It's Tse-Chien, if no one was wondering. Tse is a type of suffix for child or kid and Chien is an over fanciful way to say pretty.

I don't mind my middle name at all. In fact, I actually like it! Yes, it's actually a common first name, but it works just as well as a middle name.
It also sounds refined and sophisticated. :edgartpg:

My middle name is Catherine and i don't really mind it that much. It's a fairly normal name so it doesn't bother me. It'd be nicer to have a weirder name though, something foreign. I was original going to have my middle name as my first name when i was born apparently but i didn't thankfully. I much prefer my first name as it is (Debbie)

My middle names are "Andrew Roger" I don't mind Andrew so much but am not super keen on Roger. >_>

My middle name is "Dominik" and I don't like it... -_- I haven't a special reason, it's just because.

My middle name is Scott.

I like it very much ;D Marshall Scott H_______ has a ring to it IMHO.

My first and middle names are Italian so it's hard for people to say them at first since they're unfamiliar (I guess). My last name isn't hard to pronounce at all, but it's very uncommon and I really don't know what ethnicity it originates from.

My username on here is my middle name, so I guess that answers the question for me. I like it, but I don't really go by it in real life. Usually it's limited to usernames online like here when it isn't already taken.

I've been called by my middle name ever since i was a baby (apparently) but yeah. With regards to my first name, I've no problems with being called my first name, but people end up calling me by my middle name instead =)

im ok with my middle name... Edward... although i dont seem to use it that much as im not required to

I like my middle name of Angeline, but I only ever heard it used when I was in trouble as a kid. :P

Eh, my middle name's James. It's not that exciting. Perhaps if it was just 'Jam' or something, then it might be exciting. But then I guess it depends on what sort of jam we're talking about. Such confusion.

It's Mandarin Chinese. Tse is at Zhongwen.com but it doesn't have Chien. In fact, I've only run across 2 dictionaries in my time that even had it in there, it's an old poetic way of saying beautiful so most modern Chinese-English dictionaries wouldn't include since it's basically not part of everyday language.

My middle name is Manuel. According to Dev, I have the most generic Mexican names ever invented. :(

:fudev: Juan Manuel for the MOTHERFUCKING WIN!

My aunt and uncle had a cat they named Manuel...but my grandparents couldn't remember it's name, so they just called it any vaguely Mexican-sounding name they could think of...Emmanuel, Miguel, 'Manual' (heavy American accent pronunciation)...it's the thing I always associate the name with.

Sorry :p

Oh god... Thanks a lot. Now everyone's going to peg me as a furry pussy. :tpg:

Its "Pierre" and I hate it. I never use it at all.

Here I just wrote the character out for you. To be honest I never formally learned pinying, I went to a Taiwanese chinese School here in the States so we learned zhuyin instead.

Chien is the way my parents formally spelled it on my birth certificate but I'm not positive what form of pinying it actually is. They spelled Tse instead of Zi (the way Zhongwen.com has it) so I'm assuming it's not the same type of pinying that site has.

Just curious but why are you so interested?

I don't really like my middle name. It's way over done, but it is flowy.

Michelle

Megan.

I don't mind it I guess. it was going to be my first name, but the other lady in the pregnancy ward with my mom had her baby the day before I was born and she named her Megan, so my mom decided it'd just be my middle name instead.

also, way to not post your middle name there sian. psht.

Louise. I don't mind it, although I never use it really. =\ It doesn't seem to come from anywhere in my family either, its just a random name that my mother decided to tag on!

Stephen. Not too bad, it works. Then there's the other one, Albert, which I chose back in CCD as my patron saint. They actually go alright between my first and last names, so they're alright.

Mine is Adam, I never use it... Its just there. Do I like it? I guess?

Eh, I don't care much for it. Jane. So mundane. And I know a lot of people who have the same middle name as me.

Mines is Matthew. I don't hate and I never use it, so it poses no real problem. Some people despise their middle names, but I don't understand why if the only place it's required is on official documents.

Ashley.

A girl's first name.

Seldom used.

Paredes. Kinda reinforces the Spanish behind my filipino heritage. I'm also sure that I've got about 1/16 of Japanese in my bloodline, I think ^_^

haha SORRY. It's Jennifer, and I don't mind it at all. My Dad even calls me Jenny since he's the one who picked it for me.

John.

Very average if I may say so. But I'm not bothered, I like it.

William. I like it. Its my dad and grandpa's middle name too. Both them and my great grandpa all share the same first name, Donald.

I love how some people are so traumatized by their middle name that they won't even post it in a thread ABOUT MIDDLE NAMES.

Mine's Blake. I've always thought it was nifty, and have tried several times (unsuccessfully) to get people to call me by that name. Not that I hate my first name or anything, it's just that Blake is a little more unusual.

I can't spell my middle name. Well, more like I can't remember which spelling. I never have my social security card with me to check either.

Are you serious? I used to make fun of my ex-husband relentlessly because he couldn't remember whether his first name was spelled "Jeffrey" or "Jeffery," and I had never heard anyone else say they couldn't remember how to spell their name.

Anyway, what is it?

Internet hackers and everything, they're going to get us all via our middle names. :(

No, mine is luc (my asshole brother's name)... if you reverse it: cul (ass in french) T_T

My middle name is Marie. My mom has some philosphy for names that if your first name is long, the middle name is short and vice versa. 'Katherine Marie' (me) flows pretty well as compared to my mom's given name of 'Rebecca Narcissus' (like the flower). I think that's why she developed that belief.... Her maiden name was a mouthful.

Erin.

I like my middle name much more than my first name, and I wish my parents had reversed them when they named me. Too many Amandas around, but I've only ever met one person named Erin.

Mine is Paul.
I don't dislike it, but i'm also not greatly fond of it.
To be honest I forget that it's even there half the time.

Thomas.

It's not a bad middle name, really. I don't see why I wouldn't like it.

Either Nichole, Nichol, or Nicole. I think it's the former.

My middle name is Andrew. I've never at all been embarrased by it, and I usually sign things using my middle initial. I think the whole embarrasement thing comes along because most parents only use it when their children get in trouble. So people would then associate their middle names with getting in trouble. Think about it; have you ever heard Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wilkes Boothe refered to *without* their middle names?

No, I highly dislike my Middle name.

If you must know it; it's "Daniel"… I just don't think it suits me. Sadly there's a disturbing reason behind it, too.

i don't mind my middle name, i just get weird looks because it's my parents attempt to romanise my cantonese name only to fail miserably, extremely miserably:

what it should be in romanised cantonese: syut mun
what parents turned it into: sheer maine

yeah, my parent's english is pretty useless >.> and to think dad used to be in a reputable british university

My middle name is from my father whom I have a lot of respect for. So I really don't mind my middle name at all.

Ugh I hate my middle name, Singh. Every damn Indian I run into has that as a middle name, its just so lame.

mines is victor adrian quiñones i like my middle name but only my family calls me by it all my friends call me victor way to common. oddly enough i get weirder looks from my last name. Well at least im not juan manuel the most common first middle name combo in mexico.

Yes, my middle name is named after my "third" grandpa who really helped out my mom when she came to this country whom I have the utmost respect for.

My middle name's so long (in fact I have 3) and so old I'm even too embaressed to pronounce it!

My middle name is Olivia, after my great grandmother on my mother's side. I actually think it's quite beautiful, and sometimes I wish that it was my first name, since every other little girl seems to have my first name nowadays.

Just an unreleated comment to current discussion... I wonder how many people votes aren't accurate due to the question on the poll being the reverse of the question in the topic~.

I do and I don't.

David is a good name, and I always sign my name in print or in writing with my middle initial. I even use both my first and middle initials in my ligature and to sign it on my pieces of art.

However, the part I hate about it is that I'm named after my uncle. This was all up and fine with me until two years ago when I found out he was an adultering bastard.

Nah, Matthew sucks. It's too common and biblical.

I used to hate my first name (Loren), but I've learned to like it. It just sucks when I work with women named Laura. (Causes confusion sometimes.) lol

Buddies of mine call me Nate. Anyone else I don't know too well will call me Nathan. Platonic chick friends and black women upon finding out my middle name will call me Nathaniel Daniel. What's up with the rhyming combo moms and pops? That ain't cool.

I like my middle name, Christopher. It's why I picked "Cristobal" as my name in Spanish class (high school) several years ago. Cristobal was then a knickname for me outside of class, which was cool. All around a good sounding name that got me a little extra positive attention.

I had a friend whose name was Charles Edward. He went by Chase and nothing else; his given names would always turn his face beet red. That was a long time ago. I love people who are embarrassed by their names.

Edit: Nathaniel Daniel is too cool!

It's Mikael, and I rather like it. I wish my parents would've picked it as my first name instead.

I really hate my first name, and while my middle name is fine with me, I simply take the first letter of it and go by "J". I happen to like that letter; it's artistic, in a way.

Since I never use my middle name in any way, I don't really care. My middle name is my father's first name.

My middle name's Weiland, and it's my favorite part of my name. It's my dad's middle name and my grandmother's maiden name.

My middle name is simply my Mandarin name "romanized", I should say. It doesn't make sense if you try to read it out loud, but if you hear me say it first, another obstacle is the tones. But, it's beautiful written out, so I like it.

My middle name is Andrew, and all my life I have been called Andy by my family. Which is what I like anyways.

I liked how my second middle name (which was Nunez) was scrapped when my name was changed after my folks got married some 17 years ago, however, however, my other middle name (Michael) is more preferable than say....my first name (which I use when I am credited for stuff and ect).

My middle name is pretty awesome considering the history. Basically, my grandfather side has a czech last name which my mother had as her last name, and if you convert it to english, its my middle name (the spelling is this reason). And my mother gave it to me in form of english convert and made it somewhat synonymous with my first. The name? Its Starr. Its a great name to name a lot of things, land or boat or a company or whatsoever.