As noted elsewhere, my mother wanted to call me Francis but my father would not countenance such an extravagant name so it’s my middle one - unintentionally giving me the initials JFK.
I cannot imagine having gone through life as a Frank or a Francie instead of a Joe.
Hal, have you and my husband been having secret meetings? I’m due in a couple of weeks and he’s still pushing Danger and Trouble. He is also fond of suggesting middle names that will give the baby funky initials - like KGB. He’s a bit nutty.
I’m 3rd generation oldest male with that middle name, and my sister gave the middle name to her middle son, seeing as I have no children and will never have any.
Walton (father’s mother’s maiden name). I was named for my father’s father, whose middle name was Walter, but they wanted to honor the other side of the family while keeping the initials.
BTW: Every serious love affair but one in my life was with a woman with the middle name Marie. (The other one was Gayle. Go figure.)
Elliott. Same as my father, little brother, son and grandson. I am currenty fighting with a witch at a local Social Security office over my middle name. My official birth certificate from the county I was born has my middle name as Elliot. My middle name is spelled with 2 t’s on everything else. She is claiming I can’t get another SSN card till I fix this problem. Her boss tells me it doesn’t matter but in front of her he says it’s her call. I called back to Washington DC and was told it didn’t matter, I’m waiting for the official letter now.
I only mention it because there were a number of Dopers in some “names I hate” thread that said middle names like “Dawn” and “Lynn” were just fads, and they wanted to smack the mother or some such thing. I thought it was strange, but to each their own.
Why thank you twickster and Priceguy on behalf of my parents. When I was knee high to a grasshopper, literally, my parents were living in a tent in the middle of the forest with no one else around for miles and hence had lots of time to come up with a good name.
I like the idea of 4 names but the last person to have that in my family died in 1908. Maybe I’ll revive it.
My paternal grandfather’s first name. I never met the man, as far as I can recall; I assume because of that the name does not really have any significance for me.
Joy. No special reason for it, I think it was just a filler name. I often sign things Cyros J. MyLastName but rarely have any occasion to use my middle name. Meh.
Oooh, I like that. We’ve been struggling to find a middle name in case we have a girl (can’t start with a P, an L, a vowel or end in an N) Mind if I add it to my list?