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Originally Posted by AGDee
Agreed. In my Italian Catholic family, most of the generation above me acquired their middle names when they went through Confirmation, taking on their Saint name as their middle name.
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It's like that in Filipino Catholic families as well. Although it's also customary for the baby to receive the mother's maiden name as his/her middle name.
My parents were smoking something when they gave me 6 middle names (7, if you count my Confirmation name) at birth. Each name honors someone in my family or a place significant to my father's Hawaiian heritage.