Oct
06
Is it just me, or do you find middle names fascinating? I’m always asking people their (or their kids’) middle names.
Mine’s Rachelle if you were wondering.
I know some people are middle-nameless (like my poor, deprived friend Nicola). And some people have way more than their fair share.
I’m curious to know the most common middle name around these parts. And which one is the most unique.
Care to tell me your middle name? And the story behind it?
p.s. The winner of yesterday’s giveaway was the #3 commenter–Jonna! Jonna, just let me know if you want a copy of Blushing for yourself or a friend!
My middle name is Elizabeth…my parents just liked it. When I was in fourth grade, I wanted to change my name to Elizabeth. I thought it was a much prettier name than Amy.
Marla- my first name is close to your middle name: Rachele, but my middle name is Elisabeth, and there’s no reason for it.
Mine’s Lillian, it is one of my moms grandmothers names and one of my dad’s grandmother’s names. I hope to name a child that if I have a daughter!!!
Mine is Starr.
My sister’s middle name is Skye.
My younger brother’s name was supposed to be Andrew Storm. But then a week before he was born, Hurricane Andrew hit Florida and was pretty devastating.
So his name is Luke Franklin.
Breaking the celestial cycle.
I love middle names too! Mine is Lee.
Lee is a family name on my mom’s side, and my dad agreed to it because he was a Civil War buff and he loved Robert E Lee.
I like it, and I like the spelling! Most women spell it Leigh, but I enjoy being different.
Mine is Rebecca.
My parents gave us all Bible names, for at least one of our names: Sarah Elizabeth (she got two!), Amy Rebecca, and Daniel Eric.
My middle name is Ann after my mom’s middle name, and because she read somewhere that it was good luck for a baby’s initials to spell out a word, so she named me Christina Ann Trever so I would be CAT.
Ann and my dog’s is Ann too
My middle name is Marie. I share my middle name with my mother. Out middle name is her mother’s name. I continued the tradition by giving Breanna the middle name Lynn after my mom. Here’s to hoping she doesn’t use Kimberly when she has children, don’t know if they would appreciate that for a middle name.
My middle name is Nichole. I think it’s funny that a previous post was “Kelli Nicole”, and I am “Kelsie Nichole”. Neat!
Mine is Ann, which I think was quite common at one time, but doesn’t seem to be so now. I’m pretty sure it was just because it goes together well, Cheryl Ann
My middle name is Karen – and I don’t have a really good story as to why it is Karen….I know I have asked my mom why, she said, “I just liked it with Denise…” so I guess thats why!
Parker’s name is James – after his uncle Steven James…Drew’s brother.
My middle name is…..Friend. What can I say I was born in the 70s.
My daughters middles;
Laine- family middle name is Elaine, I altered a little.
Anna- daughter #1 named her after her doll’s name.
Rose- I loved the old fashionedness.
Mine is Danielle. My sister (who was four at the time) picked that name because it was the name of our neighbor’s dog. Ironically enough, she named her son Connor Reece, taking his middle name from one of our dachshunds. My sister apparently loves dog names!
My middle name is Marie, the same one all the girl-cousins-in my family have, and all my friends in school. All our middle names are Marie.
I refused to do that to my daughters so my oldest’s middle name is Elise and my younger daughter’s middle name is Lenore.
My son’s middle name is Joseph, just like all the men-children in our family (they all have Joe somewhere in their name).
I know you didn’t ask for that much info but I’m super good at over sharing!
My middle name is Ann. It is my mother and maternal grandmother’s middle name. I got in a bit of trouble when I did not give my daughter the same middle name!
My middle name is Margaret, named after my mother, and my ggrandmother. We’ve passed the name down to the next generation but with the Scandinavian alternative to Margaret which is Maret. So our dd has Margaret’s and Maret’s and Mareta’s she’s named after back 6 generations now. I LOVE names, and their meanings and the why’s behind them too.
PS We’ve got 9 dc so far, and used 23 names already. It’s a hoot!! With another babe on the way. I love choosing names.
My middle name is Nicole…
Korine (pronounced KorinA) Nicole… a very girly prissy name for a not so girly prissy girl. But we gave it to my 2nd daughter so her initials could be MNW… if you don’t lift up your pencil while writing them they make a zig zag… hubby thought that was cool!!
p.s. Good call on not buying the autumn mix candy corn…sick! I don’t know why they even bother to sell that one. But thanks for your encouraging words as well. I hate it when other people are right
My mother didn’t give me a middle name & I’ve always been sad about that. She gave me an atrocious first name instead (Cornelia), which is actually normal in Germany where my mom is from.
I made sure my kids have middle names though – Anna CATHERINE and Andrew PHILIP.