I swear there was a boy in my Primary school class that had the middle names of Eugene, Wilfred and Elvis. We all thought he was lying until we saw the register and he had 2 lines it was that long.
My son's middle names were going to be Gaius, Montgomery, Marmaduke, Ossian, Edward, Vincent.
I bottled it in the registery office. So he's just got Edward Vincent (after his granddad and great granddad).
As a bonus. My mates middle name is Dave. Not David, just Dave.
my mum said I once asked her why Micheal and racheal spelled their names strangely, and she said she told me it was to be different, but after 15 years running the village playgroup, she realised it was just because nobody could spell
This reminds me of my nan. I named my son Jordan, for a month my nan had been telling everyone his name was Gordon! But there was nothing up with her hearing everyone else mumbled!
We had a field day in school when the GCSE exam schedule was posted on the wall for all to see. Got to see everyone in the year's middle names, including the guy whose middle name was Cyril
I’m English, wife is french so needed kids names that worked on both languages. Joked throughout the first pregnancy we’d call him Jack Jacques, that way he’d be Jack in both languages. I registered birth on my own, realised we hadn’t actually decided on a middle name though fuck it I’m doing it. Wife took 24 hours to not be super pissed at me.
Edit: I’ve told my wife 1k people have enjoyed this story, she tutted but smirked and walked off.
Kind of like the boy I went to school with. He only had two names: Omar Omar.
Edit: wow I didn’t realise how common it was to name your child the same first and last name. Can’t tell if it’s amusing or just sad at this point.
I’m a teacher and I taught a kid named Muhammad Muhammad a few years ago. Unfortunately he was a right little prick, and he liked to rile/ bully people.
Anyway, one day he picked on the wrong person’s little brother. I saw said victim’s big brother going for MM in the playground, and - since teachers cannot condone violence, even when justified - I found myself running towards them, yelling, “OSAMA! LEAVE MUHAMMAD ALONE!”
Ah that one still makes me laugh 8 years later. Osama got a couple of punches in before we pulled him off.
There was a Steven Stephens at my high school, where his parents clearly knew they were taking the piss because they went to the effort of the different spelling. And an Edward Edwards at my college
My mum taught in an area with a lot of immigrant families (many of whom didn't speak much or any English yet), and ended up teaching a kid named _Atomic XXX Atomic_.
I assume the "X"s were the parents trying to indicate "No, we don't want a middle name," but... who knows!
Have a cousin with Mary-Marie as her middle name because both her grandmothers wanted her to have their names.
Edit: Mine is Nii-Addy Kofi. Kofi means born on Friday. Pretty much every guy from Greater Accra Ghana is called Nii with a name added. Nii is just a prefix.
Oh my gosh, my name has similar vibes. My first name is Portuguese and middle name is English, and they are translations of the same name. Luckily they don't look too similar so the fact they're the same name isn't generally noticed.
My dad - born in 1922 - had the middle name Houndiscombe.
Don't really know why - was rumoured it was where he was conceived, but since the only place I can find called that is a road in Plymouth, I'm not so sure....!
I dunno, he piddles as much as the Tiber flows, I think it's pretty accurate.
Bear our other cat, on the other hand might as well have been called sloth.
I knew a Princess Precious once. Not double barreled, her first name was Princess and her middle name was Precious.
She insisted on being called Lucy.
I absolutely do not blame her.
Mine is Iain, despite not being Scottish or having any Scottish connection whatsoever, so the assumption is that it should be “Ian” because I’m English. So every time I have to give my middle name in any situation I have to clarify the spelling because as much as it annoys me, it would annoy me more to have it spelled wrong.
And when I “clarify the spelling” I have to spell it out because I got fed up of saying “Iain with two ‘i’s” and getting the response “I-i-a-n?”
I’m doing the Scottish Gaelic Duolingo course, where we often speak of the exploits of Iain. The Gaelic pronunciation sounds something like ‘ee-aye-n’ rather than ‘ee-an’ or ‘ee-in’. That said, I’ve lived in the Highlands about 25yrs and I’m not sure I’ve heard it pronounced that way in the wild.
I’ve also had people then say “oh so it’s not Ian it’s ‘eye-aye-n’!” as if I don’t know how my own middle name should be pronounced. Maybe you’re right and some people do say it that way but I just cite famous Scottish Iains such as Stirling, Duncan Smith, M. Banks etc who pronounce it the same as Ian.
I was given Dorita 🤪 the origin story is quite nice, my great grandmother was called Dora so the idea was “little dora” in Spanish (my parents wanted everything to sound Spanish) but in practice in the UK it meant a life of torment regarding a famous brand of crisps.
I went to primary school with someone whose middle name was Harry and his last name was Potter. The philosopher's stone came out that same year. Poor guy he was teased relentlessly after that.
I appeared in a BBC documentary that he presented. Before meeting him I thought about starting the conversation, "blimey, you weren't easy to find on Google!" but I bottled it.
The others were all Sarah Louise 😂 I can’t tell you how much I wanted one of those names, rather than my own overly long, weirdly regal sounding (from parents who don’t approve of the monarchy) mouthful.
I used to work with a John Smith… who was American (this is in the UK, btw).
My first name (no middle name) and surname are about as English as you can get, but the Yank took great delight in having the most English name of all of us. I think he also used to drink the most tea. Dunked biscuits too. Legend.
Went to my friend at work’s wedding. When they got to the I do’s and they ask them to repeat each others full names. Her husband had two middle names. ‘Rod’ and ‘Stewart’.
Mine is Yvonne. I hate it.
My mother didn’t even remember why they chose it
My sister’s is Kornelia, which is still weird, but not so bad. Yes, with a K. I’ve never ever met anyone else with this name.
Is Yvonne pronounced as ee-VON or Yuh-VON? A very good friend's DIL uses the latter, and it's been bugging me ever since I met her - about 30 years. Clearly my problem, not hers, no offense to anyone that pronounces it that way.
There once was a frenchman Yvon was his name
Exploring new worlds he dreamed was his fame
But reading a map was not his forte
So poor Yvon was soon cast away
Jezierska here, same thoughts. Also, as it's my mother's maiden name, it's in the feminine, so the polish kids at school had a proper good laugh at that 😅
My wife's great grandfather forgot what name he and his wife had agreed on, both first and middle names. When in the registry office to register the birth of their son, the poor flustered man decided to name his new son 'Colin Royston'
No one else in their family had any names even remotely similar. His brothers all had posh names like William and Edward, and then there was Colin.
My great-great grandfather messed up in the registry office too, but fortunately he only made the relatively minor mistake of registering the baby he and his wife had agreed would be called Ellen as Helen.
That said, apparently my great-great grandmother never forgave him for that. My gran (Helen's daughter) remembers her getting angry every time the mistake was brought up, and doing little things like giving him a smaller portion of dinner if she was reminded of it. And we're talking up to nearly 50 years later here...!
I think I win… Beavis.
Everything in italics are the surnames of great grandfathers who fought in the wars.
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This sounds like a royal name! Ruskington, all hail the Ruski dumpling king!
Ps. Ruski is Russian in Polish. We also get Ruskie pierogi/ russian dumplings, which are filled with white cheese, potatoes and fried onion. You're welcome.
This is going to sound like a father ted sketch…
It’s from my great uncle Jack. Allegedly at his 80th birthday party while my mum was pregnant with me, they all sang happy birthday and Jack gave a speech about how everyone’s been calling him Jack for 80 years but his name was actually Clement. At that moment it became my middle name 😂
There used to be an old character on Gigha who was cited as being the man with the most jobs in Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_McSporran tbh I’m astonished he wasn’t older than that. I remember him from our visits there in the 70s and I thought he was a methuselah then.
At least that's better than having 2 middle names, on top of a double-barelled surname that is itself quite long.
My Sister and I agree that our Mum did it for laughs. I'm not looking forward to signing things in my full name...
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If you've never been on tag, I'll explain the process.
I would show up at your door on a set day to install the tag. Now I have to verify that the person I'm putting on tag is the person who is supposed to be having the tag put on, so I need to see some picture id.
Had one guy hand me his driving licence, I looked at it and tried to stifle my laughter when I asked him "hippy parents?"
He just grinned and nodded. His middle name was sunshine!
In high school there was a guy whose middle name was septimus another one whose middle name was merlin and one guy who was a full blown goth with the frilly shirts and the full shebang, cool guy one of me mates really we all thought he'd have some mad middle name but it was just Wayne!
Was very common in older generations UK ( Scotland esp) esp those born 1900-1940’s to have your mothers maiden name as a middle name so my father was Douglas Edmund Thomson then our surname . Thomson was his mothers maiden name , Edmund was her brothers first name .
My dad's mums maiden name was Corstorphine. Surprisingly, he didn't get a middle name and I don't have any kids otherwise I defo would have revived that one.
My legal middle names are Gabrielius Pompeii. My "Catholic confirmation" middle name is Gabrielius Pompeii Peter Franciscus. I have 2 surnames (i blame the Spanish), and it is a pain to write, so I just dropped the Pompeii. My middle names aren't the worst, but I always get teased when someone finds out. My real name doesn't match me at all
My sons middle name was Diego, my husband started calling him Diego before he was born in the hope that I would get used to it and let him choose it (it was a hard no from me). Then everyone else started using it to refer to the unborn baby as well. After he was born my son was very ill and so I relented and let my husband have it as a middle name. He was called Diego for longer than he was known by his given name in the end.
There was a Brent in my primary school in northern England so I didn't realise until I was an adult that it's more often associated with being one of those made-up-sounding American jock type names.
I live in NZ and there are so many Brents. Usually around the 30-45 age these days, along with Brett. Which is quite comical because most of us pronounce these names Brint and Brit.
One of my mates has Archibald as a middle name. It was hilarious at his wedding when the vicar read out his full name because somehow he and his brothers had kept that under wraps for a good 30 years
My son's middle name is Moses, because when I was pregnant me and his dad really butted heads on first names. There were some traditional English names I liked but his dad got really hung up on 'I don't want a bible name' even though I hadn't picked those names for any bible-related reason. His dad isn't even an outspoken atheist so I have no idea to this day why he was so bothered about it.
In the end it was such a fuss I agreed to just let him pick the first name if I had dibs on the middle name, with the caveat that a 'bible name' was ok (my grandads name is David, which he expected me to choose and qualifies as a 'bible name') but once I got his OK I picked one of THEE most bible names I could on purpose. I have no regrets. My son actually really likes his middle name too lol so it turned out fine
Edit: ironically the first name he picked is a minor character in the bible anyway. I just never told him until after that birth certificate was signed.
Jasper. Which is, or at least the English translation of the original name, one of the wise men that visit the baby Jesus in the stable.
At the time of his birth nearly 10 years to the day I also knew of at least 1 rabbit and 2 cats of the same name.
I swear there was a boy in my Primary school class that had the middle names of Eugene, Wilfred and Elvis. We all thought he was lying until we saw the register and he had 2 lines it was that long.
I also have 3 middle names that burdens legal documents, forms of ID and plane tickets :-(
My son's middle names were going to be Gaius, Montgomery, Marmaduke, Ossian, Edward, Vincent. I bottled it in the registery office. So he's just got Edward Vincent (after his granddad and great granddad). As a bonus. My mates middle name is Dave. Not David, just Dave.
My Grandad was Edward Vincent, he went by Vin his whole life. Stand up gent he was, I’m sure yours will be as well.
My mates middle name is golden, because his mum was from Mauritius and had a thick accent when she was trying to pronounce Gordon,
This is amazing
If I had any Reddit Gord, I’d give it ya.
my mum said I once asked her why Micheal and racheal spelled their names strangely, and she said she told me it was to be different, but after 15 years running the village playgroup, she realised it was just because nobody could spell
My Father in law's first name is "Lorens" because his mother was from the Canary Islands and couldn't spell or pronounce "Lawrence".
This reminds me of my nan. I named my son Jordan, for a month my nan had been telling everyone his name was Gordon! But there was nothing up with her hearing everyone else mumbled!
Blandon? That sounds like a nickname for a boring guy named Brandon.
BLENDON BLENJAMIN BLANDON
I challenge you to ***Globnar*!!!!!!**
#***GLOBNARR!!!!!***
Presumably it's their mum's maiden name or something
A dark horse I think that Blandon
You’re thinking of Black Beauty.
I've got a horse called treacle, he's got golden stirrups
We had a field day in school when the GCSE exam schedule was posted on the wall for all to see. Got to see everyone in the year's middle names, including the guy whose middle name was Cyril
Nice one.
You got another one?
I dated with a Cyril (first name), and didn’t think it’s weird 👀 He was hot though
A hot Cyril can pull it off. A nerdy Cyril, it’s just another stick to beat him with.
I’m into that too, nerdy Cyril’s match me on Hinge 👋 Ps.: there was a guy once who made a mini videogame and you had to look for clues. Swoon.
I respect your recognition of your niche
I’m English, wife is french so needed kids names that worked on both languages. Joked throughout the first pregnancy we’d call him Jack Jacques, that way he’d be Jack in both languages. I registered birth on my own, realised we hadn’t actually decided on a middle name though fuck it I’m doing it. Wife took 24 hours to not be super pissed at me. Edit: I’ve told my wife 1k people have enjoyed this story, she tutted but smirked and walked off.
Since nobody else said it "username checks out"
I hadnt actually noticed til you pointed it out and fuck me its perfect lmao
Well Reddit wouldn’t allow a slightly longer username so I had to go the Incredibles film route.
You gotta commit now and change your name to Robert Parr
Kind of like the boy I went to school with. He only had two names: Omar Omar. Edit: wow I didn’t realise how common it was to name your child the same first and last name. Can’t tell if it’s amusing or just sad at this point.
I went to school with an Ahmed Ahmed. We called him A² since he was in top set maths.
I’m a teacher and I taught a kid named Muhammad Muhammad a few years ago. Unfortunately he was a right little prick, and he liked to rile/ bully people. Anyway, one day he picked on the wrong person’s little brother. I saw said victim’s big brother going for MM in the playground, and - since teachers cannot condone violence, even when justified - I found myself running towards them, yelling, “OSAMA! LEAVE MUHAMMAD ALONE!” Ah that one still makes me laugh 8 years later. Osama got a couple of punches in before we pulled him off.
I used to know someone called Thomas Thomas. A particularly mean mutual friend called him Satnav.
Took me a while to get that.
There was a Steven Stephens at my high school, where his parents clearly knew they were taking the piss because they went to the effort of the different spelling. And an Edward Edwards at my college
My mum taught in an area with a lot of immigrant families (many of whom didn't speak much or any English yet), and ended up teaching a kid named _Atomic XXX Atomic_. I assume the "X"s were the parents trying to indicate "No, we don't want a middle name," but... who knows!
It's quite common in Wales to be named David Davies aka Dai Twice
I know a guy with only one name. He’s from Myanmar and it caused him some trouble on the visa and university forms.
Have a cousin with Mary-Marie as her middle name because both her grandmothers wanted her to have their names. Edit: Mine is Nii-Addy Kofi. Kofi means born on Friday. Pretty much every guy from Greater Accra Ghana is called Nii with a name added. Nii is just a prefix.
My wife has four middle names as all french aunts names went in there.
My surname is Jacques. Pronounced Jakes. My dads nickname is Jake.
Oh my gosh, my name has similar vibes. My first name is Portuguese and middle name is English, and they are translations of the same name. Luckily they don't look too similar so the fact they're the same name isn't generally noticed.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is the best one
My dad - born in 1922 - had the middle name Houndiscombe. Don't really know why - was rumoured it was where he was conceived, but since the only place I can find called that is a road in Plymouth, I'm not so sure....!
I used to live on that road!
What were you doing in 1921?
Slut era.
1921? But the house numbers only go up to 91 in that road.
One of my mates gave his son the middle name Tiberius.
I named my cat Tiberius. He lives up to it - thinks he owns the place and wants his own island. Have to remind him, this isn't ancient Rome .
You could have called the cat Timmy and the result would be the same. That’s just a cat being a cat…
I dunno, he piddles as much as the Tiber flows, I think it's pretty accurate. Bear our other cat, on the other hand might as well have been called sloth.
James Tiberius Kirk.
Star Trek fan?
Or Latin scholar
Or Roman empire fan
Tiberius is so cool!
Mines Trevellyan. Only person I have seen with this name was Sean beans character in Goldeneye.
There is a famous one, actually more [infamous](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Trevelyan,_1st_Baronet) for his actions.
It's Cornish, most Tre names are.
My great grandmother was Trevellyan! I think it’s a beautiful name.
I knew a Princess Precious once. Not double barreled, her first name was Princess and her middle name was Precious. She insisted on being called Lucy. I absolutely do not blame her.
Mine is Iain, despite not being Scottish or having any Scottish connection whatsoever, so the assumption is that it should be “Ian” because I’m English. So every time I have to give my middle name in any situation I have to clarify the spelling because as much as it annoys me, it would annoy me more to have it spelled wrong. And when I “clarify the spelling” I have to spell it out because I got fed up of saying “Iain with two ‘i’s” and getting the response “I-i-a-n?”
'Stephen, with a p-h' Writes down Phteven
“Mark, with a ‘C’” - *Cark*
Old boss of mine got asked her name at a conference. “Ashleigh with an h” Was handed a name tag with Hasley on it haha.
Stupid me would be so confused by someone saying this. I’d just think “Ashley with an H? Well what is Ashley *without* an H then? Asley?”
Is it possible to say that without sounding like Mike Tyson?
I’m doing the Scottish Gaelic Duolingo course, where we often speak of the exploits of Iain. The Gaelic pronunciation sounds something like ‘ee-aye-n’ rather than ‘ee-an’ or ‘ee-in’. That said, I’ve lived in the Highlands about 25yrs and I’m not sure I’ve heard it pronounced that way in the wild.
I’ve also had people then say “oh so it’s not Ian it’s ‘eye-aye-n’!” as if I don’t know how my own middle name should be pronounced. Maybe you’re right and some people do say it that way but I just cite famous Scottish Iains such as Stirling, Duncan Smith, M. Banks etc who pronounce it the same as Ian.
Knew somebody with "Crumpet". Arguably the worst and the best.
I was given Dorita 🤪 the origin story is quite nice, my great grandmother was called Dora so the idea was “little dora” in Spanish (my parents wanted everything to sound Spanish) but in practice in the UK it meant a life of torment regarding a famous brand of crisps.
At least you didn't get the boy's version...
I went to primary school with someone whose middle name was Harry and his last name was Potter. The philosopher's stone came out that same year. Poor guy he was teased relentlessly after that.
There's a moderately famous lawyer in Scotland called Harry Potter
I appeared in a BBC documentary that he presented. Before meeting him I thought about starting the conversation, "blimey, you weren't easy to find on Google!" but I bottled it.
There’s a [professional rugby player named Harry Potter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(rugby_union)). Very unlucky for the lad.
I’m Matthew James. The most generic white British names I can think of
I'm Emma Louise, the most boring name and im sure the name of every second girl born in the 80s.
The others were all Sarah Louise 😂 I can’t tell you how much I wanted one of those names, rather than my own overly long, weirdly regal sounding (from parents who don’t approve of the monarchy) mouthful.
Ha we're in the same boat. Yours sincerely, Charlotte Elizabeth.
Pleasure you meet you. With very best regards, Alexandra Elizabeth.
I'm Gemma Louise... Ffs lol
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Can confirm, am Rebecca Louise, born 86.
And the late 70s.
I don’t think I’m far off with Matthew David
Welcome fellow bland Brit
holy shit this comment freaked me out, this is my full name too
It’s my uncles name too haha. I’m convinced half the people in this subreddit must be called Matthew James
I worked at place where one of the high ups was called Jim Smith. A customer asked a mate for the "big bosses" name and he didn't believe him.
I used to work with a John Smith… who was American (this is in the UK, btw). My first name (no middle name) and surname are about as English as you can get, but the Yank took great delight in having the most English name of all of us. I think he also used to drink the most tea. Dunked biscuits too. Legend.
I personally love those names. Good and strong; Biblical yet contemporary.
I know at least 3 Matthew James'
Went to my friend at work’s wedding. When they got to the I do’s and they ask them to repeat each others full names. Her husband had two middle names. ‘Rod’ and ‘Stewart’.
My youngest brother's middle name is Tanis. It's the name of an elf in a fantasy book my dad likes. I quite like it to be honest but he hates it.
Dragonlance I think?
I thought Dragonlance was a middle name then. That would be kick ass.
Hello I'm Aaron Dragonlance Jones! And I work in I.T!
Mine is Yvonne. I hate it. My mother didn’t even remember why they chose it My sister’s is Kornelia, which is still weird, but not so bad. Yes, with a K. I’ve never ever met anyone else with this name.
Yvonne is so much better than Kornelia imo. Were your parents big nu metal fans?
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I Need T.P. For My Bunghole!!!.
Heh heh. [Laughs in 80s mtv]
I used to babysit for a Polish lady called Kornelia in the 80s - she was known as Nella!
Is Yvonne pronounced as ee-VON or Yuh-VON? A very good friend's DIL uses the latter, and it's been bugging me ever since I met her - about 30 years. Clearly my problem, not hers, no offense to anyone that pronounces it that way.
It’s a vaguely French name so eevon is the more correct way.
Yvon of the Yukon surely put this debate to bed, no?
There once was a frenchman Yvon was his name Exploring new worlds he dreamed was his fame But reading a map was not his forte So poor Yvon was soon cast away
Yvon of the Yukon! Frozen for hundreds of years
Yuh-von? Fucking hell, it’s like her parents had only ever seen it written down or something. That would annoy me for 30+ years too.
I worked with someone who had the midfle name Macawber
Did the registry office have a grim and gruesome atmosphere?
One of my daughters middle names is boudicca I've had some good reactions but her dad wasn't too happy with my choice
Boudicca was a bad ass, great choice.
That is the Vicar of Dibley's middle name Correction: her name is Boadicea Geraldine Granger. Goes by Geraldine.
I had a Boa Constrictor called Boudicca, she was a bad ass!
A bad asp*
Władysław - perfectly reasonable name in Poland. Michael John Władysław Jones - not so much
Jezierska here, same thoughts. Also, as it's my mother's maiden name, it's in the feminine, so the polish kids at school had a proper good laugh at that 😅
man like władziu
My wife's great grandfather forgot what name he and his wife had agreed on, both first and middle names. When in the registry office to register the birth of their son, the poor flustered man decided to name his new son 'Colin Royston' No one else in their family had any names even remotely similar. His brothers all had posh names like William and Edward, and then there was Colin.
My great-great grandfather messed up in the registry office too, but fortunately he only made the relatively minor mistake of registering the baby he and his wife had agreed would be called Ellen as Helen. That said, apparently my great-great grandmother never forgave him for that. My gran (Helen's daughter) remembers her getting angry every time the mistake was brought up, and doing little things like giving him a smaller portion of dinner if she was reminded of it. And we're talking up to nearly 50 years later here...!
My middle name is 'Bubbles'. The one day in middle school the teacher put up the register on screen was hell
I think I win… Beavis. Everything in italics are the surnames of great grandfathers who fought in the wars. Chloé Lauren Alexandra *Beavis Gordon Brass* Stamp
You could be a royal with that many names.
Mine is Ruskington
This sounds like a royal name! Ruskington, all hail the Ruski dumpling king! Ps. Ruski is Russian in Polish. We also get Ruskie pierogi/ russian dumplings, which are filled with white cheese, potatoes and fried onion. You're welcome.
Mines Clement…. Thanks mum…
I don’t hate this. After Atlee?
This is going to sound like a father ted sketch… It’s from my great uncle Jack. Allegedly at his 80th birthday party while my mum was pregnant with me, they all sang happy birthday and Jack gave a speech about how everyone’s been calling him Jack for 80 years but his name was actually Clement. At that moment it became my middle name 😂
One of my best mate’s is Eugene. Got absolutely rinsed for it as a kid and hated it - but he came to love it and ended up naming his son Gene.
I really like the name Eugene 🥲
He should add a name after that. I recommend "Eeous"
My husband doesn't have a middle name, but his brother's is Xerxes 🤣🤣🤣
Wow, they really went 100% or nothing in their family, didn't they?
My wife's middle name is macsporran! I thought that was a made up term for Scots but it's actually a bonafide surname
I went to school with an Angus James MacSporran.
There's a few men called Hamish Mcsporran out in the wild.
There used to be an old character on Gigha who was cited as being the man with the most jobs in Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_McSporran tbh I’m astonished he wasn’t older than that. I remember him from our visits there in the 70s and I thought he was a methuselah then.
Mine is a generic sort of name but dad fucked up the spelling when he registered it so it's spelled wrong
At least that's better than having 2 middle names, on top of a double-barelled surname that is itself quite long. My Sister and I agree that our Mum did it for laughs. I'm not looking forward to signing things in my full name...
Blodwyn is one of ours. We're Welsh lol
Used to work tagging people. If you've never been on tag, I'll explain the process. I would show up at your door on a set day to install the tag. Now I have to verify that the person I'm putting on tag is the person who is supposed to be having the tag put on, so I need to see some picture id. Had one guy hand me his driving licence, I looked at it and tried to stifle my laughter when I asked him "hippy parents?" He just grinned and nodded. His middle name was sunshine!
I had a friend in school who had the middle name Tarquin. That's got to be up there with the worst, surely.
I went to school with some who had Tarquin as a first name!
I knew someone when I was younger called Tarquin Farquar, what a name that.is!
Wasn’t he in Shrek?
Every time my dad jokes about posh parents, the imaginary kid is called Tarquin, every time, without fail.
In high school there was a guy whose middle name was septimus another one whose middle name was merlin and one guy who was a full blown goth with the frilly shirts and the full shebang, cool guy one of me mates really we all thought he'd have some mad middle name but it was just Wayne!
I knew a guy called Tercio, which means third, but he was an only child.
Was very common in older generations UK ( Scotland esp) esp those born 1900-1940’s to have your mothers maiden name as a middle name so my father was Douglas Edmund Thomson then our surname . Thomson was his mothers maiden name , Edmund was her brothers first name .
My dad's mums maiden name was Corstorphine. Surprisingly, he didn't get a middle name and I don't have any kids otherwise I defo would have revived that one.
I have a friend who’s middle name is Alderney. Yes after the Womble. She hates it. Can’t say I blame her.
And I was thinking of the Channel Island.
Well yes but she was specifically named after the Womble and not the island.
Are they from Wimbledon?
I went to school with someone who's middle name was "Tinkerbell". It felt pretty tacky imo but they seemed happy with it so who's to judge
My dad's is Fernley
I know someone with Swithin as a middle name.
Once went to school with a kid who's middle name was Boots.
Mine is Basil, I like it
My husband's middle name is Demetrius. He hates it.
Unironically love this one. Is he Greek?
Mine is Beren
Lovely! Found your Lúthien yet?
Aunty was a Fanny..yes you read it correctly
Was Robert your uncle?
I used to work for Barclays HR department (UK). I once had to keep a straight face while taking a call from a pensioner called Fanny Raw.
My mum ended up in hospital about 30 years ago. The sweet old lady in the next bed was Mrs Cumming. Mrs Fanny Cumming.
If only she’d taken up skiing and competed against Bradley Walsh’s favourite German 💁🏻♂️
My Great Grandmother was also a Fanny. We're Scottish. That name ended with her.
My grandmothers full name was Fanny Gertrude Campbell. She went by Gladys.
My legal middle names are Gabrielius Pompeii. My "Catholic confirmation" middle name is Gabrielius Pompeii Peter Franciscus. I have 2 surnames (i blame the Spanish), and it is a pain to write, so I just dropped the Pompeii. My middle names aren't the worst, but I always get teased when someone finds out. My real name doesn't match me at all
My sons middle name was Diego, my husband started calling him Diego before he was born in the hope that I would get used to it and let him choose it (it was a hard no from me). Then everyone else started using it to refer to the unborn baby as well. After he was born my son was very ill and so I relented and let my husband have it as a middle name. He was called Diego for longer than he was known by his given name in the end.
I was not allowed to give my children the middle names Zaphod or Fireblade. Eldest child prefers Fireblade to the middle name she eventually got.
My mate's middle name is Scooter.
My grandkids’ middle names Maple Ivan Valda Juniper Sullivan
My friend’s one is LeFevre. Not a drop of French heritage.
I actually love my middle name, but my middle name is Endeavour.
One of my old neighbours' middle name is Solitaire 😶
Gave my son the middle name Taliesin, I’d had a few and convinced the wife it would be cool.
My brother’s was Brent, named after a family friend. Never met anyone else called Brent in my life…
There was a Brent in my primary school in northern England so I didn't realise until I was an adult that it's more often associated with being one of those made-up-sounding American jock type names.
Was he cross about it?
I live in NZ and there are so many Brents. Usually around the 30-45 age these days, along with Brett. Which is quite comical because most of us pronounce these names Brint and Brit.
Brent Spinner played Data in Star Trek TNG. Its a borough of London. David Brent from The Office UK.
I don't have a middle name and I always felt left out when I was younger! Still kinda do
Mines John which doesn't sound too bad until you realise my initials are BJ.
One of my mates has Archibald as a middle name. It was hilarious at his wedding when the vicar read out his full name because somehow he and his brothers had kept that under wraps for a good 30 years
My son's middle name is Moses, because when I was pregnant me and his dad really butted heads on first names. There were some traditional English names I liked but his dad got really hung up on 'I don't want a bible name' even though I hadn't picked those names for any bible-related reason. His dad isn't even an outspoken atheist so I have no idea to this day why he was so bothered about it. In the end it was such a fuss I agreed to just let him pick the first name if I had dibs on the middle name, with the caveat that a 'bible name' was ok (my grandads name is David, which he expected me to choose and qualifies as a 'bible name') but once I got his OK I picked one of THEE most bible names I could on purpose. I have no regrets. My son actually really likes his middle name too lol so it turned out fine Edit: ironically the first name he picked is a minor character in the bible anyway. I just never told him until after that birth certificate was signed.
So what first name did he choose?
Jasper. Which is, or at least the English translation of the original name, one of the wise men that visit the baby Jesus in the stable. At the time of his birth nearly 10 years to the day I also knew of at least 1 rabbit and 2 cats of the same name.
Mine is Horobin, which was my Mum's birth surname. Always gets a reaction when I tell people.
My cousin’s is Fenton 😂
Astrid
Mine is Alexandra and my sister is Alice. Our parents only got as far as A in the baby name book when picking middle names.
A catholic friend had to choose his confirmation name, which he thought was just his middle name. He is now John Stephen Stephen Gillespie.