2007-03-09 10:36:41 · 18 answers · asked by her 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Baby Names
The middle name is where you can hide the ugly or undesierable name that is important to your other half or your family tradition... AKA lets pretend your mother in laws name is Gertrude, and it's their family tradition to name the first born granddaughter after the person who is currently named gertrude... At least it's the middle name...
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Or a good place to put the second name when you can't decide which one you want.
2007-03-09 14:39:22 · answer #1 · answered by Samantha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would help specify a person more better. For example, many people have the name Kathryn Smith. Well, it can be narrowed be down with having the middle name Kathryn Jessica Smith.
2007-03-09 10:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by Destiny C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To sound political....William Jefferson Clinton, George Herbert Walker Bush, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, etc.
2007-03-09 10:59:33 · answer #3 · answered by Your #1 fan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because just because. But if you do not want to give someone a middle name then don't.
2007-03-09 10:55:17 · answer #4 · answered by ஐ♥Julian'sMommy♥ஐ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom doesn't have a middle name, so she wrote our first middle and last names on every conceivable school form... lunch money envelopes, field trips, you name it. I dropped my middle name when I got married and replaced it with my maiden name.
2007-03-09 12:57:36 · answer #5 · answered by Gabby_Gabby_Purrsalot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, for us it was different for each child. With our daughter, her first name is my husband's grandmother's name, and so I wanted to get one of my grandmothers in there as well. With our son, we really couldn't agree on names at all, so I choose the first name and he choose the middle. It also can help differentiate with common first names-my husband, his dad and grandfather all are John's.
2007-03-09 10:43:18 · answer #6 · answered by n2mama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So your child has options to go by a different name if the first one doesn't work out for him or her. Also gives the parents the ability to honor name sakes etc.
2007-03-09 11:20:22 · answer #7 · answered by cyguysd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To identify individuals. It helps differentiate John Adam Doe from John Keith Doe.
2007-03-09 10:46:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats a great answer, here in america a middle name means nothing, in othe countries like mine ( colombia) is very important as a matter of fact a lot of peolpe choose to use their middle name instead of their first, a lot of parents do it to give the kid an option of what they want to be call
2007-03-09 10:41:01 · answer #9 · answered by yennyfer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think most people use middle names in honour of people whom they are close to in their family or after a really close friend .
it also helps when you have a really common last name i suppose.
my sons name is Zachary James ____and i ofton call him that, especially when hes in trouble. My mother doesnt have one, but she has 10 other brothers and sisters and i guess my nan ran out of ideas
2007-03-09 10:49:29 · answer #10 · answered by mel_leno 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋