# Poll: Ladies, \: What's your middle name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286 "2010-11-11T07:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/61 "2010-11-12T03:30:14Z")
I don’t know many women with Marie or Lynn middle names, but I know TONS of Anns. I myself am a Jean - it’s for my grandmother, who was technically Eugenia, so I guess I lucked out. The funny thing is, I’ve lived in the South my whole life. I grew up in South Carolina and then went to Georgia for college. Suddenly the second I hit Georgia everybody thought my name was a double name! (Short two syllable first name.) Ew! I hate “Jean” on aesthetic grounds, although I do like that it’s my grandma’s name, but my god it is not a double name! Gross! I have never gone by my middle name, by the name. ETA - on reading the second page which I didn’t see before - I know tons of middle named Renees and Nicoles as well. My niece is Ashley Nicole, which was the most popular name pairing the year she was born. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/62 "2010-11-12T03:30:16Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Anne, _with an E_. I have queens’ names: Elizabeth Anne Me too! 🙂 Elizabeth Anne is such a common combination. When I meet another Elizabeth, I usually ask her if she’s an Elizabeth Anne. Usually the answer is yes. ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/63 "2010-11-12T03:42:48Z")
I couldn’t decide on a middle name for my daughter so I took my sister’s and my (ex)sister in law’s and put them together, which resulted in JoLeigh. So now everyone thinks I named her after Angelina Jolie. ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/64 "2010-11-12T05:41:56Z")
Mine is Rachelle. I’m from Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/65 "2010-11-12T11:48:35Z")
> [@rhubarbarin](#): > > My middle name is Leigh - a ton of people of both genders in my age group (I was born in 1985) have Lee or Leigh as a middle name. I too have noticed that Grace is an extremely popular middle name for the 12-and-unders. Mine is also Leigh–born 1964. I used to think that Mom chose it after seeing Janet Leigh in “Psycho,” but she says not (Mom says, not Janet). My sister’s is Marie. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/66 "2010-11-12T12:34:34Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > …My sisters all have various long middle names too, some last names, some obscure relatives’ names… my baby sister’s middle name is Evenstar. I don’t suppose her first name is Arwen, is it? Still, I really like it. But then, I always loved having a last name as a middle name. I would have liked having a last name as a first name. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/67 "2010-11-12T12:54:39Z")
I was born on kentucky derby day, I was almost middle named after the winner- that would have been fun! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/68 "2010-11-12T13:24:35Z")
> [@Oy](#): > > I don’t suppose her first name is Arwen, is it? Still, I really like it. But then, I always loved having a last name as a middle name. I would have liked having a last name as a first name. No, it’s not Arwen, but another long girl’s name that’s not-so-common. I like having a distinctive middle name and not a “filler” name. My daughter’s middle name is also a family name but it’s a ‘first’ name. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/69 "2010-11-12T14:20:33Z")
Another person checking in who lacks a middle name. Amazing how many people can’t accept that. I’ve actually been told by people I MUST have a middle name, as they think there is a LAW of some sort requiring that a child be assigned a middle name prior to leaving the hospital. Nope, not in the US. No middle name. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/70 "2010-11-12T14:31:01Z")
My parents didn’t give any of the five of us middle names. And I was born in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/71 "2010-11-12T14:41:25Z")
My middle name is my mother’s madein name as well. We are of Irish and Swedish descent. ---
**Author:** ![Notchimine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bcef8e/32.png) [@Notchimine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Notchimine)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/72 "2010-11-12T14:47:26Z")
My middle name is Anne, my sister’s is Marie. I used neither for my daughter but my sister also used Marie for her daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/73 "2010-11-12T14:48:56Z")
> [@Notchimine](#): > > My middle name is Anne, my sister’s is Marie. I used neither for my daughter but my sister also used Marie for her daughter. And are you Catholic, or did your family just like the names? Or both, of course? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/74 "2010-11-12T15:56:49Z")
I answered on behalf of my wife, although she dropped her middle name when we married. Anne. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/75 "2010-11-12T16:59:41Z")
My middle name is Kimberley. With the extra e. My mother associated the spelling Kimberly with the Kimberly-Clark paper company (“I’m not naming my baby after toilet paper!”), and the spelling Kimberley with the city in South Africa “where diamonds come from.” So I got the extra e. I was born in the early 60’s, in the US, and a lot of my classmates had Anne, Lynn, Marie, Renee or Lee as their middle name. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/76 "2010-11-12T19:51:40Z")
> [@rhubarbarin](#): > > My middle name is Leigh - a ton of people of both genders in my age group (I was born in 1985) have Lee or Leigh as a middle name. I too have noticed that Grace is an extremely popular middle name for the 12-and-unders. Yep, another Leigh here. Born in '78. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/77 "2010-11-12T20:05:25Z")
My Catholic wife’s MN is Ann. Her mom’s name is Ann. Mine is not. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/78 "2010-11-12T20:39:21Z")
my middle name is louise, after my maternal grandmother’s first name. first name of anne (wait for it…:p) comes from my mother’s middle name: **jo** anne. i hate my first name and have always wished my name had been joanne. i’d have instantly changed it to jo and been a very happy tomboy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/79 "2010-11-12T21:30:27Z")
Mine’s Kay, which was fairly common in my neck’o’the woods back in my day (born in western KS, 1968). I hate it - actually, I like Kay, I just hate it combined with my first name. It ends up sounding Ellie May hick. ETA: It’s kind of our dirty little family secret that Kay was meant to be short for Katherina. Katherina and Margaret are all over the place in my mom’s family. But my other grandmother’s names were pretty terrible and they didn’t want to stick me with one of them as a first or middle name or deal with the issues that would come up if she felt slighted, so…I got Kay. ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ladies-and-other-women-whats-your-middle-name/560286/80 "2010-11-14T00:40:29Z")
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