No Middle Name

So, I haven't thought of middle names for my b/g twins because I wasn't planning on giving them middle names! The boys name is Cash and the girls is either going to be Brooklyn/Presley/Casey. My last name is James and the first and last names sound so good together that I just figured no middle name was okay. Ha

Anyone have any cons of no middle name? I can't think of any but maybe you smart ladies can point out something I'm missing. Its just too stressful and complicated. And my mom doesn't have a middle name and I love it! Chaille (pronounced Shelly) James.

 

I don't have a middle name. During elementary school, when we would all tease each other about middle names, it was kinda fun to be smug and say, "I don't have one. No really...ask the teacher." The only times I kinda wished I had one was high school/college graduation and my wedding invitations. It just didn't sound as formal to say "Reagan Moorhead." But now that I'm married, I like that my maiden name is now my middle name. I didn't have to choose whether to keep a middle or my maiden or both.

None of our girls have middle names, but if/when? we have a boy, we'll give him a middle name, probably my maiden name!

 

I don't have a middle name but I have two first names that aren't hyphinated. It just made my life confusing. My first name is Dawn Marie my parents were weird. I like the idea of a first name and no middle name. I took my maiden name as my middle name when I got married.

 

MIL has no middle name. Hasn't seemed to affect her.

On the other hand, DS2 wishes he had two middle names, I don't know why...

The only thing I would say is that if you have a fairly common surname and even a somewhat common given name, a middle name can help with things like credit records not getting confused with other people with the same first and last names.

I never liked my middle name and replaced it with my maiden name when I married, but I just go by my first and last names. Except for things like medical forms and social security cards, most people don't use their middle names anyway.

 

I went to high school with a girl with no middle name and everything she had always said X as the middle initial.

 

No middle name here either! Well, except I took my maiden name as my MN when I got married. We didn't give our girls MN either. And none of my dad's sisters have MN either.

No cons here and as PP mentioned, it was always fun in grade school to have people ask you your middle name and when you said you didn't have one, they replied "Oh come on, tell us, it can't be that bad!" And my friends would usually make one up for me anyway

 

QUOTE(summerfun @ Nov 6 2007, 02:09 AM) [snapback]482894[/snapback]
I went to high school with a girl with no middle name and everything she had always said X as the middle initial.


That might get a little annoying. Except on announcements and invitations, middle names aren't exactly used much anyway. I had a middle name that I loved (and hope to use for a daughter's name someday) but I still changed my mn to my maiden name anyway.

I'm a fan of family names as middle names but I also like the Harry S. Truman variety where the middle name is just a single initial.

 

I would definitely use a middle name...jmo

 

I've worked in several Dentist office, and when we have a patient that doesn't have a middle name, it becomes NMN (no middle name). It goes on the insurance forms and everything that way. We have had some confusion with people no having middle names and having the same first and last names.

 

Yeah,that would be confusing April!!

I DO like Cash and Presley as first names though!!!!

 

I don't have a middle name and none of my kids have one. Honestly I don't see a reason to have one. I personally think just because most people have one is not a good reason ... Back home is also common to have several middle names (grand pa 1, grand pa 2, father), but I cannot be bothered especially when you have to use "older" style names just because somebody in your family had that name. I know a few people who don't have them. I never missed not having one, I think it's more special NOT to have one sometimes. And it saved me a lot of time, no upset family members, etc.

 

Hi Chaille,
Neither me or my sister have middle names and I must say I actually quite like it. At the end of the day, what really is the point of a middle name, it's not like you ever need to use it. My sister didn't give either of her children a middle name. I did give my son a middle name, but only because it means something. His middle name is my maiden name, which was Lewis. The reason I did that was my grandmother had 8 girls before giving birth to my father, so that he could carry on the family name, then of course he went on to have 2 girls (don't think my Mom was as keen to go to that extent to carry on the family name!). Anyway, since the Lewis name now ends with my Dad, I thought it would be nice to give my son that as his middle name. I am currently pregnant with twins and haven't got to the baby name stage yet, I'm only 8 weeks, but unless we have a reason for a middle name, then I probably won't give them one!

 

I know a lot of people without middle names. I think its fine. Sometimes when you are in a database you will end up with an "A" as your middle initial if they need to give you one. For example, we had initials at my last job as our code for the copier. There were a couple of people who did not have a middle initial. They went from "JM" to "JAM". So if that does not bother you, you will be fine.

 

We gave our boys 2 middle names each because they were names that meant something to us and we wanted to give them as a kind of legacy for our children. Now we live in Croatia where noone has a middle name and we're really the odd ones out!

If you like it without then leave it that way, I'd rather do that than give them a name that doesn't mean anything to you.

I always felt that way about my middle name (Anne) which my parent's didn't really have a reason for, or seem to like much, to me it always sounded like "And", just a filler! I'd rather have had no middle name or been named after someone like my siblings.