Over the last few decades I’ve been amazed at the homogen-aity <I am making that up> of the middle names of most of the women that I have known.
They seem to primarily be either Lynn, Ann, Marie or a variation on those themes.
I’m about as white as they come, and I’m here to determine if that is merely coincidence or in fact a measurable oddity. (I mean, the middle names thing; I am pretty sure I know why I’m white)
No need to actually list your middle name, unless you wish to; just a clickie on the poll might give me an idea how far off base I really am.
Mine is none of the above. My sister, my husband’s sister, and the wife of one of my brothers all fit the list, with two of them having the same one of the three.
The poll appears to assume the existence of a middle name, an assumption which has been a constant pain in the rear every time I’ve had to deal with American bureaucracy (be it the government or a business).
I do not have a middle name. I have a four word firstname, which gets abbreviated to one word; so, multiple words in the “personal” part of my full name, but none of those words is a middle name. I’m reasonably sure I do not have three middle names, of which one is a preposition and another is an article. I can assure you and anybody else who may or may not care that “de” and “la” are not names, much less anybody’s middle name. The first word of my name is María, but my firstname is not María and my name is very definitely not María. The first time someone adresses me as “María”, I will correct them; further times, my brain is busy processing actual information and doesn’t have time for utterances which are clearly not being adressed to me.
My name is Lynn Marie. Double and triple snore! I always joke that I don’t have a first name, instead I have two middle names. And yep, most of the girls I knew back in Nova Scotia had one of those three middle names.
Taomist, I noticed the same thing when I was in high school: better than 80% of my late 70s-born female classmates had one of those three names as their middle name.
Not me, though. Mine’s Renee, and it’s my friend Meredith’s middle name too.
US, and I have a variant on the trifecta, though it’s actually a part of my mom’s name that she gave to me. My sister has none of the above as her middle name.
I clicked I was born in the US, but I was born in Canada, close enough…
My middle name is Marie because I was named after my two grandmothers, Marie on the maternal side. It didn’t matter what order my names came in, but the two sound better together with Marie as the second (probably just familiarity).
I have a cousin on the paternal side who is named after that grandmother and she came along before I did, so my parents used my middle name. Talk about confusion!
Interestingly, my maternal grandmother also went by her middle name. If she hadn’t, I would be a Hazel…
I’m from Puerto Rico (US territory, different culture). Usually people do get middle names but… I’m an oddity, since my dad* decided not to give me one. Supposedly, I have a baptism name, but even when I got my communion papers, they didn’t mention it. So I guess I don’t even have that.
*Dad happens to be the one who went to the office and registered me. Mom was leaning towards giving me a middle name, but wasn’t gung-ho about it (she was more certain about my first name).
Well, hmm. I don’t know how to vote! My middle name is Lynae, which is pronounced Lynn-A. Technically I think it qualifies for your list but I don’t think it is supposed to, actually. It was my aunt’s middle name and she was middle-named after a friend of my grandmother.
I always joke that I don’t have a first name, instead I have two middle names. And yep, most of the girls I knew back in Nova Scotia had one of those three middle names.