Looking for alternatives to "filler" middle names?

smismar

This site has some really good suggestions....

 https://www.namenerds.com/uucn/advice/middle.html

heidismith

That is so true!!

Rose.9.6.03

I've recommended that site to others, too.  I think it's great!

epphd

Cool!  This is a genuine public service

Erin Mary Ackerman

There are some cultures that only do one name or a first name and a last name so sometimes middle names are intended to only be filler a la Harry S. Truman, no?

smismar

BrahimBride:

There are some cultures that only do one name or a first name and a last name so sometimes middle names are intended to only be filler a la Harry S. Truman, no?

 

True.  My own mother doesn't have a middle name and neither did her mother.  This is mainly in reference to the people on here that throw any old name in the middle position because they think they should have something there, but don't really put any thought into it  - and thus people wind up using the same names over and over and over.  It was Marie, Lynn, and Ann in our generation, and it seems to be Grace, Claire, and Rose in the current round of babies being born.

jorie

Cool site...thanks!

Irishsapphire

I just noticed the middle name Gayle on the list.

My first name is Diana.  And my middle name is Gayle.  My parents gave me my middle name Gayle because that was my aunt's name (my father's sister).  I love it.  It is original.  And it has meaning being that it came from my aunt.  And my Dad sometimes calls me DG (for Diana Gayle). 

 And my brother is James Bradford and goes by his middle name Brad.  James was my father's first name.  Bradford I am thinking was a middle name from my grandfather on my mother's side. 

I think my parents did a great job with naming both of us.