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From what I've heard, Koreans are obsessed enough with genealogy that they give everyone in the same generation of a family the same middle name to keep track better.
I live in Utah, and here it seems to be the style to not give girls a middle name. I think the thought is that when they get married, they will then use their maiden name as their middle name. That is what my daughter-in-law did. When their daughter was born they followed my families tradition of giving a middle name. (just not the one I wanted )
I went to school with a girl whose first name was Gay. When she grew up and the word came to mean what it does now, she dropped it and had her name legally changed to her middle name, which is a familiar but not overused name.
I went to school with a girl whose first name was Gay. When she grew up and the word came to mean what it does now, she dropped it and had her name legally changed to her middle name, which is a familiar but not overused name.
We had two girls named Gay in our school..one changed it to her middle by high school the other still goes by it.
My sons have my maiden name and my mother's maiden name was middle names. I was ready to give our daughter another family surname as a middle name, but my husband (who chose her first name) wanted me to give my favorite girl's name as her middle name instead.
I've never understood naming people after other people. I believe babies/children/people should have their own identity. Both my kids have names that just sound good and that I liked. No religious meaning. No family meaning. No ethnic meaning.
It's very common in families of Dutch descent, and there's a system for determining which name to use when. I believe other nationalities do it, too, but I'm not as familiar with the particulars. I am named after my g-grandmother, and I rather like the connection to my ancestry. My husband is named after both of his parents (his first name is the masculine version of his mother's name), and he likes it, too.
I have my Father's first name as my middle name. My son has my name as his middle name. I call him by his middle name sometimes. My daughter has my Mother's middle name as her middle name and my wife's mother's middle name is also the same. I wanted my son to be a junior and have my full same name, but my wife and I compromised and he has my name as his middle name.
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