6079smith wrote:I grew up in Ireland, where people seem to have about four middle names, usually after uncles/aunts/saints/family members, and I've heard of family members getting pissed off because a child wasn't named after them.
To avoid all that nonsense, my parents gave my sister and me one name, never used in the family before. Suits me fine.

This has to be a Catholic thing. My Polish Catholic family is INSANE with being offended by having one name chosen over another.

I have no middle name as the red side of my family thought that it was a bourgeois affectation. True! My first name is also half of a tragic pun on a famous communist. Also true!

I have taken my father's name a couple of times before, ostensibly for online form filling security, but really because I like it. "Ian" is a solid name, not so common now, and it feels like an acknowledgment of someone who I love dearly, but whom I nevertheless act awkwardly before (and vice versa).

I don't think it applies to C or NC. My middle name is Tadeusz, after my late grandfather. He was a doctor, a soldier and he saved three Jews from being taken to a concentration camp and then kept them at his house in secret for a long time during world war two. I'm happy to have my middle name after him.

sparky wrote:I have no middle name as the red side of my family thought that it was a bourgeois affectation. True! My first name is also half of a tragic pun on a famous communist. Also true!

I have taken my father's name a couple of times before, ostensibly for online form filling security, but really because I like it. "Ian" is a solid name, not so common now, and it feels like an acknowledgment of someone who I love dearly, but whom I nevertheless act awkwardly before (and vice versa).

I've toyed with the idea of the -uddin suffix. I actually have two birth certificates. One that says "Faiz Razi" and the other that says: "Faizuddin Razi,". it's the only document that has Faizuddin on it like this and there's an accompanying document to refute it.

if you think that's funny, my father, Salahuddin, has three birth certificates. One each for the 14th 15th and 16th of october.


by those accounts, he's 180 years old, and I'm 62.

Rick Reuben wrote:

Johnny C wrote:I have two.

Then you actually have zero. If there are two, neither can be in the middle.

Wow, good call. Though this is easily fixed with the addition of an 's'

Iqbal.

Without it things would have been much more difficult growing up, as the I share the same first name as my father.

kerble wrote:if you think that's funny, my father, Salahuddin, has three birth certificates. One each for the 14th 15th and 16th of october.


by those accounts, he's 180 years old, and I'm 62.

Ha! My dad has three 'official' birthdays too!

Catholics have many names so as to make sure the name of the actual biological father is in there, right?

sunlore wrote:Catholics have many names so as to make sure the name of the actual biological father is in there, right?

My parents had to endure 10 years of rumor of me being a love child.

Fucking assholes gleefully stuck to it even 10 years later, where I'd have been mummified, calcified, and world record pregnancy.

I wouldn't stop in a desert to save a Catholic.

Rimbaud III wrote:

kerble wrote:if you think that's funny, my father, Salahuddin, has three birth certificates. One each for the 14th 15th and 16th of october.


by those accounts, he's 180 years old, and I'm 62.

Ha! My dad has three 'official' birthdays too!

Jumping Jehozafar! we really are twiins.

I guess I'd better read Midnight's Children again.