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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is silly. A name change for a middle name that he doesn't use? Just don't use it.[/quote]

OP here. To be clear, if we changed his name we would start using his middle name. We just don't use the current one because I don't really like it and we have no strong feelings or connection to it. It was forced on us by someone who isn't really a big part of our family anymore.[/quote]
What does it mean to “use” the middle name?
Would you call him by the new middle? Hopefully not, because that’s just like changing the first name to the person being addressed.
How else is a middle name “used”?[/quote]

I don't know OP's culture, but it sounds like they use it. In my parents' culture the middle name is also used more frequently than here in the US, where it seems to be more decorative for some than anything else. There are swaths of family friends who call my mother by her firstfollowedbymiddle name, or even just her middle name because they like it, they identify with it (she was named after a grandmother so the cousins share affinity and connection to he name).[/quote]

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