Eylese - pronounced Elise
No idea where it came from. In 7th grade, I went by Eylese in the classes that the other Shannon was in, and by Shannon in the ones where I was the only one. By the end of the year I found out that most of my teachers though I was a set of twins but thought it really strange that we were never seen together.
Jeanette. My paternal grandmothers middle name. Her name was Ethel Jeanette, but my mother thought that Ethel was a bit “old fashioned” and named me Ellen.
Thank freaking everything, that she had the sense to figure that one out.
It was either that or Cindy Ellen. :eek:
I swear I only hit submit once!!! Gah!
Anne, with an “e”. Just because they liked the sound of it.
Wynn
My Great-Grandfather, Grandfather and Father all had the initials JWS. My Mother came up with the brilliant idea that I should also have those initials - even though I was a girl. So she had to find a female-ish name starting with a “W” - It could have gotten really scary.
Sloan.
My parents thought I was going to be a girl. I wasn’t so they shifted that to the second slot. This was about 5 years before Ferris Bueller, so Sloan Peterson had no effect on my name.
I wasn’t given a middle name when I was born. When I asked my mother why she had a 2 part answer.
My first name (Kathleen) was long enough by itself. My surname was only 5 letters long. I didn’t think that made much sense.
“When you get married, you’ll use your maiden name”. I didn’t get married until I was 44.
When I got married 2 years ago, I added a middle name.
Drum roll please
Kinsey
Taaa Daaaaaaa
I took it from the name of a character in a book series I have been reading for years. Sue Grafton’s PI Kinsey Milhone.
Vanessa. Just because my mom thought it sounded pretty. I wish she had picked that as my first name, since she named me Jennifer. If she had only known that my first grade class had five Jennifers…
Middle name? Me? Nope. No such animal. NO, I tell ya. I don’t care what it says on my driver’s license!
I DO NOT HAVE A MIDDLE NAME [sub]'least not one I’ll admit to, under pain of torture…[/sub]
Ok, ok. I do have one, but thanks to my unmerciful male siblings, I have come to hate it and never admit to it. Though, oddly enough, just the other day at JoAnn Fabrics, I commented on the cashier having the same first name, and she asked what my middle name was, and told me hers. We have the same names! Small world, sometimes. My first name is Karen legally, though I always spell it Karyn. Keep meaning to get it legally changed, just haven’t yet.
Janeva.
Pronounced like “Geneva.”
My two great-grandmothers’ names were Jane and Eva. My parents stuck them together and gave me Janeva.
John.
Father’s middle name, grandfather’s middle name (I’m PJC III), not sure how far back it goes.
My middle name is Elizabeth, chosen because my mother liked it. By coincidence, my grandmother’s name is Betty (yes, just Betty).
Mom didn’t make the connection till later.
Three guesses what mine is 
It’s also my mom’s middle name, and my hypothetical future daughter’s.
Javier (that’s Xavier in English)
Owen. My dad got to choose it because my mother picked my first name. He liked the sound of it. My mother’s requirement for my first name was that she didn’t know anyone with that name so there was no personal attachment to it. Oddly enough, given how they were chosen, my full name works extremely well together and I’m quite proud of it (it’d damn long, too). The only thing missing is a “Sir” at the beginning. I’m working on it.
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Stratton and very proud of it.
It’s a family thing.
It was my paternal grandmother’s maiden name.
It was my father’s middle name
And since Kathy and I have no kids, my sister named her second boy David Stratton.
However, Kathy is insisting that I name one of our future cats with the middle name of Stratton.
:eek:
Annan. It’s Scottish, and was my mom’s middle name, and her mom’s maiden name (which became her middle name), and my great-grandfather’s last name. There is still a town of Annan, near the river Annan, near the border of Scotland and England.
The Annandales are a faction of the clan Johnston.
My middle name is Joseph, although I wish it were my last. Whenever I write something, I that as my pen name.
It was my grandfather’s name.
Ryan Joseph sounds nice, doesn’t it?
-Ryan Joseph
Correction, it was my mother’s grandfather’s name.