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18. A nickname for my middle name

Reply to Buddha_of_Wisdom (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 05:11 PM

Oct 2013

and so do all 3 of my younger brothers

Although at work I get called by all my names and some that ain't.

My dad's nickname was Butch. No idea why - I am named after him and my grandpa (I'm the third). There's no Butch anywhere in there. My grandpa mostly answers to our first name but close family and friends called him a nickname for our last name. Well, them that don't call him "grandpa."

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No names please... how many of you go by your middle name? [View all] Buddha_of_Wisdom Oct 2013 OP

I was 12 before i knew my name wasn't... ret5hd Oct 2013 #1

I do. Aristus Oct 2013 #2

my nephew is VIII grantcart Oct 2013 #5

Yeah, but Aristus Oct 2013 #7

yep and he just got married. grantcart Oct 2013 #8

Is his name Henery? ashling Oct 2013 #21

So far, we only go up to my cousin, who is V. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2013 #25

Have despised my first name since childhood and used my middle name ALWAYS.... Rowdyboy Oct 2013 #3

I do the initial then middle name thing also HarveyDarkey Oct 2013 #4

That is what I do too. MuseRider Oct 2013 #28

I do KamaAina Oct 2013 #6

Let me guess... Buddha_of_Wisdom Oct 2013 #10

It's a fish KamaAina Oct 2013 #11

:-) MuseRider Oct 2013 #29

It was briefly the state fish KamaAina Oct 2013 #31

Really? MuseRider Oct 2013 #35

I believe they dropped the idea of a state fish altogether KamaAina Oct 2013 #37

Crazy MuseRider Oct 2013 #38

I think middlefingermom does.........eom mrmpa Oct 2013 #9

Would that make him M. Finger Mom? Rowdyboy Oct 2013 #16

!!!! n/t mockmonkey Oct 2013 #40

My dad does tabbycat31 Oct 2013 #12

Unfortunately... pipi_k Oct 2013 #13

My dad does Tobin S. Oct 2013 #14

Not me - I don't even have a middle name. MadrasT Oct 2013 #15

Names in our family tradition are fluid. hunter Oct 2013 #17

A nickname for my middle name OriginalGeek Oct 2013 #18

I have a female middle name, so no! B Calm Oct 2013 #19

You are the opposite of me tabbycat31 Oct 2013 #39

Nota me! My first and middle and last name are long! raptor_rider Oct 2013 #20

I legally changed handmade34 Oct 2013 #22

So you're *THAT* British spy :) Buddha_of_Wisdom Oct 2013 #26

I really want to go by my middle name. Vashta Nerada Oct 2013 #23

Not me. a la izquierda Oct 2013 #24

I can't Ron Obvious Oct 2013 #27

I don't have one either, and sadly I've never been fond Saphire Oct 2013 #47

Me. Manifestor_of_Light Oct 2013 #30

Japanese people have no middle names. yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #32

And most of the time, they don't even use their first names, Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #41

haiiiiii! yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #42

OK Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #43

oh... yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #44

I don't like my middle name and in the US don't tend to use it davidpdx Oct 2013 #33

Not on your life! LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #34

I do. Iggo Oct 2013 #36

Yes, middle name. First name was also my mother's name. No Vested Interest Oct 2013 #45

Not me, but my mom does laundry_queen Oct 2013 #46