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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: joanne. 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.
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.
