![]() etc.) that it’s not that crazy to have several middle names. I think there are enough examples from all over popular culture (how many names do the little Royals George & Charlotte actually have?) as well as within our Catholic culture of multiple middle names, or names that sound like 2-in-1 (Piergiogio, Josemaria, Jean Baptiste etc. When that is done, the ‘extra’ Mary/Marie or Joseph is so natural and not too much. I love the intentionality of families who honor Mary or Joseph within every one of their children, like St. And if there’s no second middle, I automatically think of Mary Clare Lastname each time I think of that gal. The Mary _ names: Mary Clare, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Catherine…I instinctively want to know the rest of the name. ![]() If you’re John Paul…you’re just not going to say “Hi, my name is John.” (I’m SURE I’m wrong about this, but this is my impression of the JP name). Growing up with JPII as pope, I always think of John Paul as a single first name. I don’t even officially have a confirmation name (our class was discouraged to take one…weird).Īll that said, I think that there are some names that just BEG for another middle name. ![]() For me, I don’t think I’m quite the personality to have 4 names. When I had to sign mortgage papers, it already was rough having to sign my FULL name each time. I just wasn’t (and still am not) a four name kind of person. But! My maiden name sounds so much harsher next to my married name, like all 3 names are separated by periods, rather than what Colleen Elizabeth Lastname sounds like, so I excitedly embraced the name change with my vocation. Or that I didn’t just take it as a second middle. My mother dropped her middle name to keep her maiden name part of her signature, and I think that my fam was sad that I kept Elizabeth over my maiden name. THANK YOU!!! I have been feeling badly about that (decade old) decision ever since my newly engaged sister said she will be dropping her Marian middle name and making her maiden name her legal middle. Oh my gosh you just consoled me about not legally taking my maiden name as my middle. What do you all think about double middle names? Do you have two middle names? Do you like them? Hate them? Feel indifferent? Do you all feel like it’s an unnecessary burden for a child, or a reasonable way to work in all the names you want to use? I think this is such a great solution for certain families! And I think the idea of one’s “legal name” being different from one’s “real name” to be an interesting thing to muse on. If you didn’t want the hassle (or didn’t want to saddle your child with the hassle) of two middles but you have two middle names you’d like to use, you could do what this mom did and only put one middle on the birth certificate - thus having his/her legal name be First Middle - but everywhere else in life (within the family, when you’re telling others, on the baptismal certificate, etc.) use First Middle Middle. I know my mom has told me that sometimes the second middle would get dropped (not enough room on forms, or a bureaucratic decision or misunderstanding by some official person to only include one middle), which irritated her as the mom, and she and Dad even hyphenated my youngest sister’s two middles to try to avoid that, but otherwise it hasn’t ruined anyone’s lives. Even now, as adults, they include all their initials when they’re writing out their full names. I have two brothers and three sisters, and one of my brothers and two of my sisters have two middle names, and I’ve never heard any of them complain about them. My thought is that two middle names is fine. It’s definitely time to post here and get your feedback! A reader was asking me about double middle names so I looked up all my posts on middle names and was surprised to see that I hadn’t written about them yet! Surprised because I feel like I do discuss them with some frequency in my email discussions with parents.
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