What is a Middle Name.

Do double names have middle names. Many people with a double name or four names opt to drop one of their middle names or their maiden name if newly married with a double name in order to have a three-initial monogram. In the post-Roman Western world middle names were often saint names given to both girls and boys at baptism. The word barrel probably refers to the barrel of a shotgun as in double-barreled shotgun.

Down here we dont kid around when it comes to double names. Women only had two names and slaves typically had one. Its a place to honor the family be creative or whimsical use a name youre not quite brave enough to try as a first.

Both women felt they needed both namesthat loss of the second name represented an unacceptable loss for their sense of identity as opposed to Mary Alice named for. Hello cool middle names and bye-bye to the bland connectives of generations past the ubiquitous Ann that almost sounded like and because the middle name has now taken on a much more active part in the naming process. You find many will simply drop your second name.

Here are some examples of second names celebrities Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon. Many just fill it out with a hyphen between their first name and middle name making it a linked double name and leaving the middle name initial blank. In the Western tradition of surnames there are several types of double surname.

If we have one of each currently expecting our first dont know the sex then both will have a middle name from my family DH knows this isnt negotiable but we could have two middle names. In British tradition a double surname is heritable and mostly taken in order to preserve a family name which would have become extinct due. Being French the system is a bit different because there is not really any middle name but several given names prénomsIt seems like in the US people expect a single middle name so it is unclear what to use as THE middle name when you have multiple given names.

This tradition of multiple names spread over to. Along with Elizabeth and Henry middle names currently in the US Top 1000 for first names include Arden Belle Bowie Claire Jude Nash Orion and River. Romans may have used three names but thats not why Americans have middle names today.