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[Titchou]

Your maiden name...that's a very big thing to do here. Mary Hunter, Mary David, Mary Andrews...all kids I know....

Or if you want to be very Old South aristocratic, just use a family name with no Mary or Anna in front...i.e. Brock Andrews, Hayes Klyce, Gaines Brice, etc....

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Your maiden name...that's a very big thing to do here. Mary Hunter, Mary David, Mary Andrews...all kids I know....

Or if you want to be very Old South aristocratic, just use a family name with no Mary or Anna in front...i.e. Brock Andrews, Hayes Klyce, Gaines Brice, etc....

I'm surprised that David would be a maiden name for someone in the old south. All the Davids I know are 20th century immigrants from Eastern Europe or the Middle East.

[ellebud]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I'm surprised that David would be a maiden name for someone in the old south. All the Davids I know are 20th century immigrants from Eastern Europe or the Middle East.

Got to admit that I laughed over that. One daughter has my maiden name as her middle name. It was a made up name after entry at Ellis Island. My daughter cringes every time someone is about to mis pronounce it.

In our neighborhood, Berkowitz Gevirtz, (Berke?), Geller Heller, Goldstein Lefkowitz (Goldie?...Oh, that was done, in the early 20th century)...guess it doesn't work too well in SoCal.

But I love the idea.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by ellebud

Got to admit that I laughed over that. One daughter has my maiden name as her middle name. It was a made up name after entry at Ellis Island. My daughter cringes every time someone is about to mis pronounce it.

In our neighborhood, Berkowitz Gevirtz, (Berke?), Geller Heller, Goldstein Lefkowitz (Goldie?...Oh, that was done, in the early 20th century)...guess it doesn't work too well in SoCal.

But I love the idea.

Lots come from that experience at Ellis Island...including my maiden name which should have been Breslin but was changed at Ellis. And then you have "dit" names in French - mostly Cajun - which is another issue altogether.

But in SoCal you could have Levy Hurowitz.....

[carnation]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Or if you want to be very Old South aristocratic, just use a family name with no Mary or Anna in front...i.e. Brock Andrews, Hayes Klyce, Gaines Brice, etc....

That's the only way I can figure that some of the local preppy girls got their names because theirs aren't exceedingly pretty: Strom, Hoyt, and Nash, for example.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by carnation

My daughter said that when she was at MS State, it seemed like half of every pledge class was composed of Mary _(middle names)__. All of them called by both names, of course!

Originally Posted by Titchou

Your maiden name...that's a very big thing to do here. Mary Hunter, Mary David, Mary Andrews...all kids I know....

Yep, I named the daughter Mary, after both me and her great-grandmother, and my maiden name for her middle. But she goes by a nickname...so none of her friends know her real name!

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Mary Magdalene?

I think Mary Mary Yubuggin would be amusing as well.

[louisianagurl]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Yep, I named the daughter Mary, after both me and her great-grandmother, and my maiden name for her middle. But she goes by a nickname...so none of her friends know her real name!

I am also a believer that a true double name is two words for the technical first name. My daughter's first name is the double name and she has a separate middle name. Of course, I also have a hang up about calling kids by the first name you gave them. If you really love that name enough that you want to call them by it, then make it their first name . I understand why people do it sometimes, but it's my hang up for my own kids.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by louisianagurl

I am also a believer that a true double name is two words for the technical first name. My daughter's first name is the double name and she has a separate middle name. Of course, I also have a hang up about calling kids by the first name you gave them. If you really love that name enough that you want to call them by it, then make it their first name . I understand why people do it sometimes, but it's my hang up for my own kids.

i can speak from experience on this topic. my husband hates his middle name, so he did not want our son to be "the third", but he did want our son to have the same initials as his. coincidentally, the name we wanted for our son began with my husbands middle initial, so that worked out. however, calling him by his middle name, while having a different first name has proven to complicate matters -at school, at the doctors or dentist(especially if husband and son see the same doctor/dentist). i would never have a child go by their middle name again.