Does anyone have a middle name?

I sometimes look at Mumsnet’s Baby names, just to be amazed at the awful/bizarre names which people use now. On there it is assumed to be universal to give babies a middle name.
I don’t see the point of adding a name which will never be used, mine is ghastly but nobody’s ever asked what it is.
My brothers and husband had only one name and we gave two of our children two each and the other two only one. They’ve never complained.

The majority of people I have ever met have had middle names, whether they were manual labourers or Lords of the Realm. Before everyone was known to all and sundry by their first name. everyone would be referred to as Mr/Mrs/Miss. A N Other - and it was almost always 'A N' Other, rarely 'A' Other.

I am a Presbyterian but haven’t heard of that . Maybe it is different here.

maybee isn’t it strange I grew up in a fairly poor area but everyone I knew had middle names in fact I grew up where it was completely normal Having done my family tree back to 1690 all my ancestors had middle names and were all manual workers

I grew up thinking you had to be rich to have a middle name.

It’s a Presbyterian thingGrammaretto Babies baptised in the Catholic Church had to have saints names so surnames wouldn,t qualify.
I,m godmother to a mid fifties niece ,she was baptised after the mass ended not during it,possibly because her father was Presbyterian,but her parents wanted to give her his mothers maiden name and the priest refused so she has just her first name although on her birth certificate it has her granny,s surname.If they had got her baptised within the week as was normal they would likely have given her granny,s first name to go on the birth certificate instead

My children all have one and so do we. I thought it was normal. More unusual not to have one.

I have a middle name- happy about that.
Our children each have two middle names as do our GC. Definitely not posh!

Mom chose my first name and Dad my middle which was the female version of his.

I have a middle name and all 4 DC have and 7 DGC have middle names.
DH was always known by his middle name which was occasionally a nuisance when officialdom addressed him by his first name.
Being called at the doctor's for example. He wouldn't respond!
My Scottish DiL has her mother's maiden name as her middle name which I believe is a Scots tradition.

I have 2 middle names & a confirmation name. One of my middle names is my mum's & granny's first name & also my daughter's middle name.

I’m not sure I can think of anyone whom I know to have only one Christian name. Certainly everyone in every generation of both sides of my and my ex-husband’s families all have one, two or three “middle” names, going back as far as anyone has researched the family trees.

I have a middle name- it was useful when we played that playground game “letters in your name.”
My children both have middle names in case they didn’t like their first names.

My middle name is after the midwife who delivered my older brother! He was born at home in the early 1950’s and Mum promised her midwife if she ever had a baby daughter she’d name the baby after her.
That midwife didn’t deliver me, think she’d retired by the time I came along, but Mum had kept in touch with her and kept her promise.
I’ve no idea who delivered me-( another home birth) and no more children came along to be named after her, whatever her name was- I was never told!

I have a middle name. My husband had two middle names, one of them wasa family name. We gave the same name to our children, along with a second middle name, and the same has been done for the grandchildren.

I have a middle name. It is the name my parents chose and would have been my only name, but for the death of my grandfather's sister. He asked my father if he would name me after her which he did. I don't really like either of them.

Traditionally,we have several names in our family-some rather unusual .
It's always been like that to honour various Aunts and Uncles .
One of my friends said that our daughters sound like the cast of Little Women .

I was the first grandchild on dad’s side and they took ages choosing my name. They only chose one and it’s French. My brother and sister have family names for their middle names. OH wasn’t given a middle name so our children have three Christian names each. Our granddaughter also has three.

I was named after my mum and maternal GM (first name) and my middle name was my paternal GM's. It was then decided that me, mum and gran all having the same first name would be confusing, so I've always been known by my middle name.

Both my children have middle names as indeed have their own children. I didn’t have one, just a confirmation name, which is not legal, so never used.

I don’t have a middle name. Neither does DH.

Always wanted one.

Made sure both my children had middle names.

My brothers and I have middle names. As the first born (by half an hour) I got my father's first name as my second. Family tradition on his side, so his middle name was his father's first and so one. I'm not sure how it would have worked if the first born was a girl. Female variants perhaps.

I have Irish ancestry and middle names have been around for ever as far as I know but they are often used daily,think Mary Ann,Margaret Mary ,MAry Therese .A.so children wet named for the generation before.My granny had brothers called Charles William and Thomas,that’s what they called my uncles .It does make finding folk on the registers quite difficult as a lot of Irish surnames are equally common .

Perhaps the idea that it was ‘posh’ to have middle names - not an idea I’m familiar with - came from the fact that royals often had strings of names. The King, for example, is called Charles Philip Arthur George, and Princess Anne is Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise. I know, because when they were born I remember making their names with my wooden letters. I was eight when Charles was born.

Not sure about Prince William’s generation, but I notice his children only have three names each, same as my grandchildren.

I have my mother’s name as my middle name,I,m the only one of 4 daughters who has one.
My children both have middle names although my son was known by a shortened version of his name years before he was born.He has both Maternal GF names but called by his dads grandfathers name.
I promised her he would be called that as she always said she was sad she never had a son to give his name to.
Sadly she didn,t live to see him but his name was on his wristband before he reached SCBU.Itsuits him well even though folk used to say it was old fashioned.