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Old 11-17-2006, 11:09 PM
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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.
I know of an Irish Protestant family that likes to use several middle names, too!

I think they did Suri a favor - she's going to be so messed up with the Scientology crap that trying to remember a middle name too would just tax her little brain.
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