My middle name is Douglas.
Michael Douglas C-------.
No, my mom told me that I wasn’t named after the actor.
I no longer have one.
Mine is Bernard. I grew up hating it but now I think that it is pretty cool. I have the same name as my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather and have passed the name on to my oldest son. I figure that if I had to grow up with it then he should get to as well! 
Incidentally, when I was younger my two best friends were the proud owners of the middle names Lester and Eugene. We always felt like we the only members of some strange “Middle Names That Suck” club. Bernard, Lester, and Eugene.
Randolph. After my uncle. Do not laugh.
A slight hijack, but for dopers without middle names - did it ever give you trouble? We gave our son a hyphenated last name and no middle name, and we’re kind of worried he’ll have problems later on with bureaucratic crap and so forth.
Michael.
All the oldest boys on my dad’s father’s side of the family have John Michael as their first and middle names. Younger boys had other JM variations. I will not continue the tradition.
Robert.
I’m my paternal grandfather’s namesake but instead of being named Robert John, as he was, I’m named John Robert.
I prefer my name… it flows better.
Anne. My folks wanted to name me Elizabeth, and thought Anne sounded nice as a middle name. [waves at Gingy.]
Dawn. Because my parents liked the sound of it, I guess. When I was younger, I wanted it to be my first name, but I’ve changed my mind since then.
My mom now wishes they’d given me her middle name…but I think all the other Jessicas I know have Marie for a middle name, so I’m really, really glad they didn’t. Though I wouldn’t’ve minded having my sister’s middle name – Kaitlin. Only spelled with a C instead of a K.
Franklin, same as my Dad.
Gee, this will probably surprise you, but my middle name is Enright. I was name after a priest. Actually, I was named after an uncle who was named after a priest.
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James, named after a deadbeat cousin of my dad who was an alcoholic, committed a robbery then committed suicide…
I still don’t know why my parents named me after him.
Marie.
I was named after an old friend of my mom’s, Katherine Marie. So that’s my name.
Schlomo
the. As in, acrossTHEsea.
Hahaha, actually it’s Beth. I don’t think there’s a story about it, it just sounded good. I know a lot of people with Beth as a middle name born around the same time as me.
None of the 5 of us sibs got middle names. I don’t know why - Mom had a middle name, but Dad didn’t.
I used my confirmation name, Elizabeth, as a middle name until I married, at which point my maiden name went in that spot. I recall when I enlisted in the Navy and put down Elizabeth as my middle name, I had to write out a statement that although it wasn’t on my birth certificate, I used it as my middle name.
I don’t think I was traumatized by not having a middle name from birth - I just never understood why my folks chose not to give one to any of us.
Norman. Don’t laugh. After my mom, Norma.
George, after my Dad, George Edward. I’m glad the tradition in our family was to pass the first name on as a middle name. I’m so not a George.
Allen
Family surname on my mother’s side.
Over the years I have found that Allan, Alan, Allyn, and Allen are often the middle names for someone with my first name.
None of my mother’s sublings (including her) had middle names, because her father had five names and hated all of them.
I was almost named after my grandfathers, in which case I would be either Oliver Walter or Walter Oliver (Ollie Wally or Wally Ollie) and would probably not have survided childhood.
I guess I’m a subling. I meant sibling in reference to the brothers and sisters of my mother.
And I have survived, if not survided.
Mine is “Uwe” named after my uncle on my mother’s side of the family. My sister’s is “Brigitte” named after our aunt on our mother’s side of the family.
The variations of pronunciations of “Uwe” in the States made for some great fun. But then again, the name was made famous by the great Sooners and Dolphins placekicker “Uwe von Schamann”, also known as “Uwe von Foot”