Isn’t 2 names enough?

why do we need a middle name? Seems useless, I think the world should be rid of middle names. WSU?

 

I have two middle names

 

There are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, and 8 billion people on the planet. You can think of middle names as no different than adding your zip code or area code. In high school, my three best friends were all named Robert, my name, and people would greet us saying, "Hello, Robert, Robert, Robert, and Robert!" I've been "Wu Li" now for over 30 years.

 

Are you suggesting we identify serial killers and assassins by only two names, heresy


James Earl Ray
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Wilkes Booth
John Wayne Gacy
Mark David Chapman

 

If two names are good enough for Mickey Mouse, that's good enough for me.

 

Not a good enough explanation. Donald Duck is the only Disney character with a middle name. .

 

Donald Duck could never have been elected president, if it were not illegal to vote for Mickey Mouse in Maryland. Having a shorter name makes it easier to join the Mickey Mouse Club. Mickey's my man! Donald Duck isn't even a man.

 

My two middle names are my two grandfathers first names.
Jocelyn Joseph Johannes Falkenberg.
I like it, it displays a family unity, a bond and commitment. Lineage.
And if I ever have a daughter, she will get my mums name, and my wifes mums name and if it's a son, he'll get the fathers names. Because family runs deep with me. We take it everywhere and all through life.

 

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Hmmmmm…Hans, Klaus, Wolfgang, Ernst, Werner?

 

I do like Wolfgang, it's probably one of the coolest names
Along with Helmut. I have also pondered the idea of naming a would be daughter with numerals, Jocelyn Falkenberg II

Haha. I'd be bringing her up right, believe me. Folks'd better run for the hills.

 

one name would be enough, if it were culturally normal for each of them to be sufficiently unique.
in such a culture, where no person, place or thing, was ever "named after" any other,
the use of a locative, i.e. "of nebethira" to distinguish between rare duplications,
would be sufficient for the rare instences where this would be required.

no one is born to be a continuation of anyone else.
inheritence otherwise is ok, but a name is a cage.

 

Then you dont have a middle name

You'd need an odd number of names for there to be one in the middle

 

May I Suggest That "Malcolm" Would Be A Wise Choice For A Middle Name.....



Cheers Glen.

 

I had a middle name. I changed it legally so what was my middle name is now my last name and I dropped my family name.

 

There's another guy with my same name in South Carolina. Either that or he stole my identity.

 

Well I have 2 middle names . I also had until I changed it by depole a double barrelled last name .

 

Serial killers can have 3 names

 

I am he

 

My middle name is the name of the Jewish soldier and good friend who died next to my Christian great grandfather in WWI. I honor it, because he honored the man.