Middle Names?- Page 3

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 7:08pm

Mine's "Miles."

It's an old family surname. Civil War generals, that sort of thing. Goes way back.

My brother's is my mother's maiden name.

[D2]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 7:10pm

Michael. Confirmation name: Vincent.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 7:11pm

Code name: Scorpio.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 8:19pm

Came name: Condor

[ScottInLA]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 8:31pm

No middle name at birth. Have been using my confirmation name as my middle name for a while--never changed it legally, but I think it's on enough government documents and forms that it's probably a de facto done deal by this point.

Mom's first name is her dad's middle name--but it's Dale, so it works for both boys and girls.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 8:47pm

LOL Sueleen! No, it's not a Gilbert & Sullivan song. But it certainly reads like one.

[misschung]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 8:54pm

Mine's not too interesting. My maternal grandmother's maiden name was Janos, so my middle name became Janice. A sort of Americanized version of the Slovak family name.

[CJR]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 9:09pm

I too, have the most boring middle name on the planet: Marie. Both my dad's sisters' (I have 4 aunts on my mom's side) middle names are Marie and it's my grandmother's first name. Well, somehow, my parent's thought it was a good idea for it to be my middle name so there it is.

My godmother from Confirmation... her middle name is Teresa, after St Therese the Little Flower. For my confirmation name, I took her middle name, as well as her patron saint.

My middle name -- Marie -- isn't the most generic thing about my name as a whole. It's my last name: Smith. Doesn't get more generic than that. 2 years ago I petitioned to have my last name legally changed so it's hyphenated with my mom's maiden name first. Makes my name a little more ethnic and a little less generic. It's not so forgettable now. lol

Updated On: 11/2/07 at 09:09 PM

[dramarama2]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 9:15pm

I had an aunt named Jennifer Joy Ware. Has a ring to it doesn't it?

[futurenala]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 9:16pm

My teacher's middle name is Nevermind.

[AudreyTwoTwo]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:35pm

My middle name is after my Grandma and Great Grandma. My middle name is Grace. :)
People say that Samantha Grace is a really pretty name.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:37pm

My middle name is Margurite after my maternal grandmother. I don't have a confirmation name because when it was time for me to receive mine, my church decided to do away with them. losers

[mauriposa]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:52pm

I actually went out of my way to find a saint to go with the middle name I already had. I didn't want another name to add to things.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:56pm

Yeah, but confirmation names aren't usually used for anything. most of my relatives don't even remember theirs. I tried to pick an interesting one--Victoria, after the saint who refused to marry a man her father wanted her to and decided to live in poverty instead--but I only remember it because I was only confirmed about 5 years ago. I kind of like it, though. Maybe I'll adopt it as my regular middle name someday.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:59pm

"blue, I grew up in the era of monograms."

The 1920s?

Updated On: 11/3/07 at 10:59 PM

[CJR]

Posted: 11/2/07 at 11:19pm

I was confirmed 10 years ago.... I didn't want some generic name I wouldn't remember when I was 60. I wanted a name that meant something to me. I picked my Godmother's middle name because I felt very strongly connected to that saint and she (my godmother) has been a very influential part of my life. She is largely to thank for the woman I am today.

Professionally, I dropped Marie from my full name.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 12:35am

I can remember my confirmation name - and I can remember that my sponsor was my sister and they spelled her named Janantha which is not her name. I just can't remember when it was. When do people get confirmed? Eighth grade?

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 12:52am

I was confirmed in 7th grade.

I remember that we had to memorize about 100 questions and answers pulled from the Baltimore Catechism and printed on a special card. Then they designated a day when the entire class would be "quizzed." One-by-one we were called into the principal's office where the pastor sat behind a big desk and selected questions to ask each of us.

Someone would leave the classroom and be back in like 5 minutes...except ME. Why? Because when the priest asked me if I had any questions, I said, "Yes. Why can't there be 'altar girls'?"

He droned on and on, giving me some long, drawn-out bull**** answer. When I finally went back to my classroom, everybody was freaked out. "WHAT HAPPENED??? COULDN'T YOU ANSWER HIS QUESTIONS? DID YOU GET IN TROUBLE?" My classmates thought I was being punished for not having answers when, in reality, I was being "punished" for having questions!

Please excuse MY droning.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 12:57am

Heh, I was confirmed in 7th or 8th grade and our entire CCD class was a nervous wreck becuase we were afraid that we were gonna be interrogated about what we'd memorized in class by the bishop in front of the entire church. But, we got lucky. While we were all sitting there sweating the Bishop stood up and said, "I know how nervous I was on my Confiermation day, so I'm not going to ask these young people any questions." So instead he just gave an hour-long sermon about what it meant to be a good Catholic. The questions might not have been as bad. I guess I'll never know, but I gotta say, I don't remember anything I learned in CCD.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 1:08am

Christ, that means by confirmation was twenty years ago.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 1:13am

Oh, Boo Hoo, Phyllis. That means mine was before you were born!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 1:29am

I've never used my confirmation name as part of my name. And I think I had to give it back when I was excommunicated.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 1:39am

I was born Catholic, but I missed out on all of the above. I was adopted into a Methodist family.

[gypsiedtokill]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 6:15pm

I have 2 middle names! One is Elizabeth, just like everyone else in the world (or so it seems). Good thing my first name is Skyler. My second middle name is my mother's maiden name, Sherrill. My brother is the same way. He's Caleb Nicholas Sherrill...

[D2]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 6:15pm

I was born Catholic also, went through all the indignities of a Catholic school education and then one year decided to give it up for Lent. And beyond.

Updated On: 11/3/07 at 06:15 PM