Middle names

[Dauphin]

Most people I know have one. I am special and have two.

What purpose do they serve? Is it so you can chuck in a pet name that you always liked but your partner didn't want as the kid's first name? Is it a vanity thing so your mum/dad can shove their name into yours?


Anyway, woe-betied my first son (assuming I ever have one), for I will call him Xerxes Trevor. Not only is it a rocking name but his initials would be XTC.

Then again, I could call him Dave if I am feeling unoriginal.

[Adagio]

My parents gave me a middle name in case I didn't like my first name, but I don't like my middle name so I never use it

[VetLegion]

I don't have a middle name. Since you have two, can I have one of yours?

[Dauphin]

VetTrevorLegion.

[Dauphin]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical+trevor/

[Pekka]

Xerxes? At least grant him the right to be Hannibal.... :shakeshead:

[Wernazuma III]

In Europe, having two middle names is not so rare. I have two, my name reads like coming directly from a Wagner opera, although my parents are everything but nationalists or germanophile.
My full name is
Werner (like my father), Gerolf (like someone we don't know; my grandmother seems to have wanted this), Rüdiger (like my grandfather).

Also, my two children have 3 names:
Daniel (cause we liked the name) Andreas Martin (like my brothers)
Jakob (cause we liked the name) Harald Werner (like the grandfathers)

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Pekka
Xerxes? At least grant him the right to be Hannibal.... :shakeshead:

I'm considering calling him Pekka.

[Provost Harrison]

I have none. It would've been Gavin if I had one...fits in well with the mistaken Taffiness. But I think under those circumstances I am glad with none

[Traianvs]

I have two middle names. As far as I know everyone over here has the names of a godfather and grandparent on their passport/identity card, but nobody ever uses them.

My name would be Olivier Paul Homer

[Dracon II]

Xerxes is probably a tainted name now in our post 300 era... if it was ever an auspicious name anyway.

My middle name is Owen... which I believe is welsh for "lamb".

[Ninot]

Mine is James, after my maternal grandfather.

I occasionally tell people to call me James, and they never do.

I've had more luck telling people to call me Peter.

[Pekka]

Dauphin, Pekka > Xerxes.

Let's make it clear; xerxes is dead, I'm not => I am superior to Xerxes.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III
My full name is
Werner (like my father), Gerolf (like someone we don't know; my grandmother seems to have wanted this), Rüdiger (like my grandfather).

Rüdiger was the badass Hun Margrave from the Niebelungenlied.

Rüdiger

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Dracon II
My middle name is Owen... which I believe is welsh for "lamb".

That wouldn't surprise me.

In Welsh that means that when you grow up, you'd be raped mercilessly