Overheard today

[Redlight]

I think I can officially say that the area in which I live is going upmarket - on Sunday, in the local park, I overheard a small child being addressed as "Guinevere"

Heaven help her when sh's a teenager.

[ian]

I'll raise you a Ridley and Camomile. They were so posh they made the Queen sound like she was from Erith.

And somewhere in south London there's a kid called Awesome.

[hellymedic]

I think I can officially say that the area in which I live is going upmarket - on Sunday, in the local park, I overheard a small child being addressed as "Guinevere"

Heaven help her when sh's a teenager.

Teenagers are remarkably sensible about choosing the names they use despite their parents.
Duncan Jones sounds plainer than Zowie Bowie...

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

His full name is Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones though.

[hellymedic]

I don't use my middle name either.
Duncan styled himself when he was 18.

[ian]

I don't have a middle name. Oh go on, I bet it's something really embarrassing. No, really I don't. Neither do my parents. Possibly they couldn't afford the middle name tax. My wife, on the other hand, doesn't use her first name and defaults to her middle which is a constant confusion. Yes dear, they won't let you get on the plane.

[barakta]

I eradicated my middle name by dint of stat dec of name change

[Wowbagger]

For a reason I never understood and it is now too late to find out, my parents named their four sons with a solitary name each, whilst their two daughters have two each.

[ian]

No middle names seems to common on both sides of my family, my inlaws do that genealogy thing and having run out of their own family have started on mine, and it causes them consternation with searching. Though my maternal grandmother Flo turned out to be a flowery Florence Amelia. They were evidently posher in Belper.

Yeah, from fairground bare-knuckle fighters to effete thought leader with tidy hair in just three generations.

[Feanor]

It's not unknown for Leftpondians to have a middle initial which doesn't stand for anything; it's just an initial.

[hatler]

And to aimlessly bolt Jr (the) III on the end as well.

[Cudzoziemiec]

My real name is Cudzo Z. Iemec the IVth. 

[Clare]

My real name is Cudzo Z. Iemec the IVth.

Introvenouth? that's an odd surname.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I don't have a middle name but my younger brother does. This is, of course, proof that my parents love him more than they love me.

[Cudzoziemiec]

My real name is Cudzo Z. Iemec the IVth.

Introvenouth? that's an odd surname.

You all might know my pa, Cudzo Z. Iemec the Hypodermith. And my ol granpappy, Cudzo Z. Iemec the Vermouth.

[barakta]

My younger sister has TWO middle names, the rest of us only got one. There were reasons... I still think her full name if she double-barrelled her married name to her maiden-name would be the most hilarious thing in the world...

My sisters each have one child, each child has TWO middle names...

[hellymedic]

For a reason I never understood and it is now too late to find out, my parents named their four sons with a solitary name each, whilst their two daughters have two each.

My parents gave us two names each but felt they had to be more careful about the girls' names, which might change, than the boys' names that would not.

I suspect your parents had similar thoughts.

My Dad has only one given name but his late three sisters all had at least two given names.
Perhaps such was commonplace in days of yore.

[Mr Larrington]

Mrs Larrington (decd.) had two given names, as does her twin sister, but the third sister had three.

[SteveC]

I knew someone from a family of four girls and one boy. The boy had two names, all the girls just the one. My friend seemed to think this was perfectly normal, even the 'correct' thing to do.

[hellymedic]

Dad's email address is rather elegant; a whole 14 characters which include his full name & .com.

[L CC]

One of the many ways in which I'm special - er than my sisters is that I have a middle name and they don't,
Another is that they have other issues with their single forename - my elder sister's is an abbreviated form on her birth certificate and my poor younger sister has spent her whole life having to admit that her dad did it and can't spell and no it doesn't have an I.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

I've 2 middle names and share my first name with a cousin. It's all very odd.

Also, if I lose my only birth cert, officially I will cease to exist and may be doomed to spend the rest of my life in stateless limbo.  It's the original issued in an outpost of the Empire.  I am unrecorded on govt. records and the regime in my country of birth claims not to have anything either.  A kindly solicitor friend has provided me with an alternative attestation that usually enables me to avoid parting with the real thing.

[Cudzoziemiec]

My birth certificate is in a registry office in Poland. That's what they do there when you get married. Turns out they're not supposed to do this with FURRINS but they didn't know and neither did I. As to why they do this, I don't know.

[Kim]

Mine's somewhere in my parents' house.  Might as well be Poland.  I got a new copy issued years ago in order to prove that I can fill in forms.

[Ruthie]

"I stopped doing Facebook.  I don't need to see a photograph when my cousin's sister-in-law's daughter gets a new tent."