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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy to write, pronounce and understand first name with 3-5 letters with a nice meaning. No middle name and last name of mother or father, whichever is easier. [/quote]
I disagree with this. I prefer names that have 5-8 letters. Any name with under 5 letters is too short for me.

[b]It’s also more practical to have a middle name than to not have one in the United States. My company has all of our employee email addresses formatted as FIRSTNAMEMIDDLEINITIALLASTINITIAL@ companyname.com. There’s kind of an unspoken expectation that you do have a middle name even though many don’t. Additionally, having a middle name differentiates you from other people with your same first and last name (especially if you have a common name combo). This could be a good thing if there’s a criminal with the same name combo as you.[/b][/quote]
I’ve never understood why some parents decline to give their child a middle name. You get to choose another name that you like at no extra cost to you, and it provides your child with an obvious name to go by if they really dislike the first name that you have given them. I don’t get not taking advantage of that opportunity. I know some foreign countries don’t do middle names, but I’m speaking strictly about American parents who have grown up with this custom. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.[/quote]
I like the concept of middle names, but I don’t like how people use the same standard filler ones 99% of the time (especially for girls): Ann(e), Elizabeth, Nicole, Marie, Rose, Grace, Faith, Hope, Lil(l)y, Leigh, Lynn(e), Renee, Rae, May, James, Lee, Michael, Christopher, David, Daniel, Paul, Robert, Matthew, Alexander, Allen, Wayne, Richard. It kind of defeats the original purpose of a middle name.

Fortunately, I think we’re moving on from this to a wider variety of middle names.[/quote]
The men in my husband’s family all have Charles, Joseph, and Anthony as their middle names going back generations. It’s just the same 3 names recycled over and over again. William and Isaac were in the rotation at some point, but they dropped off.[/quote]

In my family the middle name is usually a family name or some other personal connection. DD's mn is the name of my close cousin who died young. DS's mn is DH's middle name, that is also a multigenerational family name.[/quote]

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