# Help me pick a new middle name. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898 "2012-05-14T16:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898/61 "2012-05-21T00:10:00Z")
Igor. Vlad. Retrorocket. Socketwrench. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898/62 "2012-05-21T01:23:53Z")
Whatever you do, don’t change it to “Low Tax” like this guy [Byron Looper - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper) , especially if you want to go into politics. Besides that, James goes with about any first and last name. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898/63 "2012-05-21T14:29:49Z")
Rudiger 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898/64 "2012-05-21T14:53:53Z")
Bertrand. Don’t know why - it just popped into my head upon reading the op. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898/65 "2012-05-21T15:11:33Z")
Clarke Armstrong Apollo Austin ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898/66 "2012-10-17T20:44:39Z")
Update: As usual when I post asking for advice, I’ve ignored all of it. 🙂 I think I’m going to go with “Wade”. I’d better improve my swimming first, though! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898/67 "2012-10-17T21:11:24Z")
Or carry a bathroom scale with you wherever you go. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898/68 "2012-10-17T22:06:32Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > W. > > Just “W.” Naw, if you’re gonna have just a single letter as a middle initial, [it’s gotta be J](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ward#Rocky_and_Bullwinkle). > [@](#): > > In a running joke tribute to Jay Ward, many of his cartoon characters had the middle initial “J.”, presumably standing for “Jay” (although this was never stated explicitly). Cartoonist Matt Groening later gave the middle initial “J.” to many of his characters as a tribute to Jay Ward. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-new-middle-name/621898.md?page=3)