wat are middle names used for?

Question

theyre not really used for anything.

Answer 1

Middle names were first introduced by German nobility in the fifteenth century, but did not become common until the seventeen hundreds. A middle name was not common in the United States until after the Revolutionary War. The tradition then was to use the mother's maiden name as the middle name. (Knowing this may be a good first clue when tracing your ancestry around this period. However, nothing is ever always absolute). Today they are just another name and mean nothing it is just a tradition anymore.

Answer 2

A middle name originally was picked according to the name of the saint who shared your birthday (ie, if you were born on St. Patrick´s Day, your middle name would be Patrick or Patricia). This practice is still commonplace in modern-day Latin America and even England.

Answer 3

Well my middle name is my mothers family last name.It is given in our family to allow the females of the family to pass down our mothers birthright.
It has been done in my family since before the 1500s. My daughter has it as her middle name and she will pass on thru her children when she has any.Its also given to some males to perpetrate that family name. Just tradition in my family.I personally am proud to carry both my mother,my father and my married name .lol Alho it get long signing on official papers ..

Answer 4

It is another way to identify a certain person. There may be two people named Samuel Mendez (random name, sorry if it is actually your name) and one has the middle name Bob, the other Greg.

Answer 5

It is another way to identify you as there are many people with the same names, ie, James Smith or Mark Williams, so middle names sometimes separate those people.

Answer 6

Well, they just give you an alternative. Like I use my middle name instead of my first because if I used my first, I would have the same name as my dad. It serves the purpose of telling me apart from him. That's just me though.

Answer 7

I'm afraid I can't remember which culture, but I read somewhere that some people would use another name to avoid someone putting a curse on their real name.

If you hear it in America, it means Mom is really angry.

Answer 8

Very particularly call. Julianne is unique and Morgan is unique without being overly so. And sounds astonishing with the extra straightforward final call. could sound even sweeter in case you soften the 1st call a touch...Julianna Morgan hall. yet I do like it. ;)

Answer 9

when woman married they lost their last name, so to keep their maden name in the family she would give the child her last name as a middle name.

Answer 10

i dont know but i hate my middle names. when i turn 21, i want to change them