Names Names...Middle Names? by BlueEyedBrigadier

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Names Names...Middle Names?

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UPDATED: Sunday, December 10, 2006 04:21
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Friday, December 8, 2006 7:24 PM

Well...since the ever indomitable msg decided to set up a forum for Browncoats to toss off their RL monikers, I thought I would establish this post to ask for - you guessed it - middles names!

Now...while I am not a mod and have no official power to request behavioural limits, I will say the following:

1) Like with msg's thread, this is optional! Give if you feel comfortable

2) Don't be hating or mocking a fellow Browncoat's middle name(s) less they've already established the green light to be making with the funny. Even then...keep it tasteful, dong ma?

3) Explanations or justfications would be shiny if you've got one for why your parents saddled ya with a...unique...middle name

Now...without further ado, I present mine to the world!

Huw Gwyn

Yep...my parents gave me those as my middle names. Certainly makes for a mouthful, which was to my benefit when the ole 'rents got cheesed at moi

Been awhile since I looked them up, but I think they mean the following:

Huw means "mind, thoughts, soul"

Gwyn means "relative"

Honestly thought at least one of them was supposed to mean "pure, white" but I guess I was wrong

So yeah...anybody else wanna share?

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Friday, December 8, 2006 7:27 PM

RHYIANAN

Nothing all that interesting, my middle name is Lynn. Got it cause it's my mom's middle name and my parents didn't want to be creative.

I'm a leaf on the wind

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Friday, December 8, 2006 7:39 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

My middle name is Lucille. When my dad was displeased, I was "Rose Lucille" and when he was trying to be cute I was "Rosie Lucy". I was only ever "Rose" when it came to my mom.
My parents met through a guru named Lucille. It means "light".

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Friday, December 8, 2006 7:56 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Barney

It was my grandfather's middle name, and also an uncle's middle name, both on my father's side.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 8:23 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

Jean is mine. It was my mom's middle name. She was Carol Jean. My sister got my mom's first name as a middle name, Nancy Carol, and I got the middle, Cindy Jean.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 8:35 PM

SAMEERTIA

Linn.
It means waterfall or small stream of water in Gaelic. I was born in '69, my sister in '72. Everyone was naming their children Moonbeam, Sunshine, Teddy-Bear, etc.

My parents were worried that if they gave us normal old classical names we would be 'out of place' in our generation. So, they gave us both very classical, normal, run of the mill first names and then they gave us 'hippy' middle names. Sis is Star and I'm Linn. They figured if Linn seemed too 'normal' I could always call myself "Waterfall". (Much of the poetry I've had published is under that nome-de-plume)

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Friday, December 8, 2006 8:46 PM

REDLAVA

Jay is mine.

Bradley Jay, when I got in trouble. Between you and me I hate the "ley" at the end of my first name. So I never use it. Except on my tax return.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 9:23 PM

ROXYFREEFALL

Woman, you are completely off your nut.

It's just plain Lynn. I actually have no idea why I was given that middle name. No one else in my fam has it but me. Maybe it just sounded good with Michelle.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 11:57 PM

GLADIATOR32

Ronald. My Grandad's name.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:39 AM

CALLMESERENITY

Serenity is my middle name!

"Callmeserenity" partly comes from not wanting to be called by my first name, Heather, since nearly every other female on the planet has that name. (The spaceship part was just a happy coincidence.) I was in a class in high school where there were 5 of us. The teacher gave us numbers (I was #4) and I got fed up and started making people call me by my middle name.

Both names came from a book my father was reading when my mother was pregnant with me. Something about a Quaker family. It was one of those Reader's Digest books. I think they're both lovely and lovely together.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:45 AM

THEKNIGHT

Mine is Luther, my grandfathers first name. And my first name is James, my grandmother's maiden name. Don't particularly hate either, but I do give permission to make fun if it is deemed necessary.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:55 AM

DUG

My middle is Lee, for no other reason than my parents couldn't come up with anything else to go with my first that they thought sounded good. Of course, once you shorten my first you come up with "Dug Lee", so fire away with the hilarity on that one.

Serenity, as for their being 4 Heather's in your class, in my graduating class of an entire 73 people there were 4 Todds and 2 poor girls that had the same first AND last names...the only difference was one was spelled Kelly and one Kelli, so they endured 12 years of being called Kelly-Y and Kelli-I.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 4:02 AM

MONKSDAD

my middle name is jason, that would be adam jason, i was named that so i had an option of being called AJ, dont call me AJ

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 4:22 AM

PENGUIN

My middle name is Paul...named after no one! I am the only one in my family who's first or middle name isn't a family name...don't know why!

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 2:41 PM

CALLMESERENITY

dug-that does make me feel a bit better. I've never met anyone with my name before. Or anything close to my name.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:07 PM

HELL'S KITTEN

My mum's middle name is Rose. I've always liked it, but she doesn't.

I'm plain Sara Jayne.
Called "Lady Jayne" when my mum was irked or I was acting like a princess.
Called "Jaynie" by a few boys.
Called "Sara-Para-Pigstye" by my evil brother growing up.

S'okay, though, he has a worse name for name-calling

And in one of my high school classes, there were about 5 "Sara Jaynes" of various spellings. Heh.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:07 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

Elizabeth.

Why? I have no idea. But, I do know that I've had a class with nine girls, and six of them (including me) have had this same middle name. I think the only one more common for girls in my area is Nicole (at least three of my friends have it).

Meh. It's nice, though.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:09 PM

CYBERSNARK

Mine is Anthony, named for the saint.

It wasn't until after that my parents realized they'd effectively named me "Mark Anthony."

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:09 PM

TRAVELER

My parents picked Lewis. It means obnoxius comedian that dies his hair black until he is way past seventy years old.

My parents choose it because they were thinking of Robert Louis Stevenson. They never bothered to look up the proper spelling so now I'm named after Jerry Lewis.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:24 PM

DARKJESTER

Michael, not sure why. Thankfully, my dad didn't want to take his shame out on me. His middle name is Wilford.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:34 PM

WILLIAMJAMESW

Mine's James, I got it and the first after my great-grandfather.
I haven't posted in the first name thread, but it should be easy to figure out from my screenname that I couldn't think up anything more creative.

I could stand to hear a little more.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:43 PM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Serenity is my middle name!

"Callmeserenity" partly comes from not wanting to be called by my first name, Heather, since nearly every other female on the planet has that name.

Makes me think of the Winona Ryder movie of the same name.

My middle name is Alexander, and it is a family name from the time of the Revolutionary War. I have considered going by Alex before, but never did it.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 4:04 PM

GOMITHROUS

Ugh my middle name is Rowan, I hate it so much though.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 4:52 PM

RHYIANAN

Hey, Sarah Rowan isn't that bad. You could be stuck with my Sarah Lynn. I can google my full name and have thousands of websites pop up.......and to my knowledge, none of them is me. The curse of having common names.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 5:08 PM

JAMESTHEDARK

My own is Matthew. I know, not to original, but my father had a really inventive way of picking it.
When my parents picked out my name, they were sitting on the back deck, reading from a baby book. Dad had gotten so sick of rummaging through literally thousands of names, that he took the book, set it on the edge of the deck, grabbed his shotgun, and blasted it.
The next morning, he picked up the shredded book, and the first name he saw was Matthew. I still laugh when I hear about that one.

he he he...

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 5:30 PM

GOMITHROUS

Lol my mom's middle name is Lynn, kinda weird.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 5:34 PM

RHYIANAN

Quote:
Originally posted by Gomithrous:
Lol my mom's middle name is Lynn, kinda weird.

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My mom, me, my bf's mom, and his sister all have the middle name Lynn(e). If I end up getting married and having a daughter with this guy, I'm breaking the cycle 'cause that's just insane.

I'm a leaf on the wind

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 5:54 PM

RMMC

My middle name's Ann. Not sure if it just because it sounded good with my first name, or for St. Ann. It may be for a bit of both, but no other relatives with it. My older brother and sister both got named for the grandparents with the middle names coming from the paternal grandparents.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 6:17 PM

STINKINGROSE

That would be Joan.

I believe I mentioned that I am YET ANOTHER Heather earlier.
I had it first. There was a startling spike in the number of us just after "that movie".
Now I'm at work in the clinic and I hear the front desk call me, but they don't really mean me. This happened five times in one day last week. I was considering taking on a nurse name (like a stage name but boring) or something by the end of that day. I find myself talking to myself on a regular basis, so to speak.
The younger Heathers have my sympathy. It was like that with Jennifers when I was in grade school. At least I had a few years of knowing they were definitely talking to me.
Still.... could be Mary!

..and now I can't get down.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 6:54 PM

DREAMWALKER

My middle name is Sybil. Not the crazy lady from the movie (which is the first comment everyone seems to make). Actually my parents are history buffs so I got my names from mythology. My first name, Cassandra, comes from Greek mythology and my middle name comes from Roman mythology. I love my first name, but I loathe my middle name (what was my dad thinking?)

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 4:06 AM

CALLMESERENITY

Quote:
Originally posted by Gomithrous:
Ugh my middle name is Rowan, I hate it so much though.

I like Rowan. It's a type of tree, no?

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 4:21 AM

DARKFLY

Mine's Andrew though not the worst in the world I would of liked something like Aran or James.Strange my Dad & his Dad have the middle name Andrew & my Mums brother is called Andrew yet my Mum says she called me Andrew not for either of those reasons she must of liked it I suppose.

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