Doper Middle Names

Rafael – My maternal grandfather’s name. I like it, it has character (much like he did!). (Name origin, from the Catholic Bible’s Book of Tobit; an Archangel). My sister’s latest husband is also a Rafael, resulting in that my youngest nephew matches both my given names :smiley:

Nicolina, after my grandfather, Nicola. This makes my initials AND.

I’m slightly surprised there aren’t more Maries here, since it is one of the most common Italian/French middle names out there.

Another for Lawrence – my father’s first name.

Atheist Princess: Although he’s not (to my knowledge, anyway) a Doper, I know someone whose middle name is Zarathustra. If you declare him the winner, I’ll make sure he gets the prize. :wink:

I don’t have one, but I tell people it’s Danger

Dane.

Not a particularly common name I suspect.

Careful with that axe…

How odd. I knew a girl in high school several years ahead of me named Chassidy, spelled exactly that way. I just thought of her the other day and how strange that name always seemed to me. It sounds pretty but I’ve never understood what it was supposed to mean, if anything.

Anyhoo, Morgan here. Old Scottish family surname.

Charles. I’m seriously considering changing it to Chase because Charles is the name of an uncle I couldn’t stand. Or to “Charlemagne”- can’t go wrong in the gay community when you’re “the King of Franks”, after all.

Charlemagne?
Someone stop the camp! STOP THE CAMP, I SAY!!

Lucky.

Well… not really. I wasn’t actually given a middle name - they aren’t that common in Israel. When my sister was born, she was given the middle name “Ruth,” Ruth being our mother’s former middle name before she changed it to her maiden name after marrying. I hadn’t been familiar with the concept of middle names until then, and after it was explained to me I decided that I had been wrongfully deprived of an essential privilege, and demanded that a name be given to me immediately. My parents, amused, told me to choose my own middle name, which in retrospect was not the smartest thing to ask of a precocious 4-year-old. After a few vetoed proposals (I think one of them was “Batman,” which could have been interesting) we finally sttled on Lucky, because with typical arrogance and carefree obliviousness I considered myself a very lucky little boy.

Since then, I started introducing myself as Joshua Lucky - initials JLF. When I got a bit older, I decded that discretion might be for the better and simply abbreviated it to “L.” Noawadays, I I just tell people that I have a plain middle initial, much like Harry S. Truman; if pressed, I tell them it stands for Lancaster, my mother’s nom de plum (she used to write English textbooks for European countries that would have been put off by our very Jewish last name). But to me, it’s still Lucky.

My wife’s first choice of names was Losira (that’s the name of Lee Meredith’s character on the ST:TOS episode, “That Which Survives” (“I am for you, Mr. Sulu.” “AAARGH!”)). First female starship captain. My mother did not approve. So, we named her Rowan, after the psychic in all the Anne McCaffrey novels. Didn’t tell my mom where we got the name from (hey, our son was already named after a D&D character…).

Mine?

Fredrick.

Uwe.

I have two:

Paul - ho hum

Hardwick - mum’s maiden name
I have a friend with first and middle names Paul, Steven. His brother’s names:

Steven, Paul.

My middle name is Redgrave, you know, like the surname.

My girlfriend makes fun of me because I dont have a ‘proper’ middle name, just some other person’s surname.

Heh. I just named my daughter after the ship’s mechanic in Firefly. Spelled the ol’ Celtic way, though: Caileigh instead of Kaylee. Middle name Morgan, after my brother.

My middle name is Alicia, which everyone assumes from WhyNot A. Lastname is Ann, and so is in fact Ann on a few legal documents, including at least one car title. Yes, I told my husband to fill it in for me and he got my name wrong!

My parents always pronounced it “Aleesha,” which I hated. Sometime in the 90s I decided it was pronounced “Aleeseea”, but now I just pretty much never pronounce it, so it’s unimportant anyway.

Harald.

I have a younger sister whose middle name is Mikel (pronounced Michael).

It is my dad’s first name. He tried for a boy but had four girls so gave the last one his first name for a middle name.

Marisa - I dont like it because I think I sound weird saying it.

Another Marie. We’re Irish, gotta have the Blessed Mother in there somewhere if you’re not going to use one of the More Common Saints like everyone else. My mother and grandmother were both named Mary, but since my first name is Carolyn, Marie scans better than Mary.

Grandma had no middle name per se, in her culture you stick your ancestry in there instead, so she was Mary Donald Huey MacD. of Glencoe (NS). Mom has a middle name-Elizabeth-so her family calls her Libby. My other grandmother was saddled with Mabel Ethel as names, although we found out when she died her legal first name was May Belle. Awwww.

Now, who wants to start a confirmation names hijack? Mine’s Christine!

<gets slapped silly by other members and non-Catholics>

Alexandria.
sigh It’s so much nicer than my first name…

So use it.