[blparent] Baby names

Fri Apr 27 19:15:59 UTC 2012

Sometimes people use their middle names in addition to their first names. 
Most of my extended family calls me Jo Elizabeth, which I like a lot better 
than just plain Jo.  I always got teased in school for having a boy's name, 
even though my name is spelled like Jo from "Little Women."  Also, people 
ask me all the time if Jo was short for something like Josephine or Joanne, 
which it isn't.  It just so happens that my dad's brother, Joseph Ernest, 
died while my mom was pregnant with me, so my name was as close to his as my 
parents could get, since I wasn't a boy.  I just think Jo Elizabeth sounds 
much more feminine and pretty than Jo.

Also, a lot of forms and applications ask for a middle name or middle 
initial.  Interestingly, Harry S. Truman (President of the United States 
after FDR died) added the letter S. to his name for convenience, but it 
didn't stand for anything at all.  He didn't have a middle name.

A lot of people use the wife's maiden name as a middle name, particularly in 
the South.  We're not from the South, but my sister didn't change her name 
when she got married, so both of her kids, a boy and a girl, have her maiden 
name as their middle name, and her husband's name as their surname.  My 
favorite aunt, Martha King, has Patterson as her middle name, which is her 
mother's maiden name, and both of her kids have King as their middle name.

Okay, done with trivia.  I just get fascinated with names.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names

>        Middle names are great. It's a warning system to your kid that you 
> are really pissed about something they're doing.
> Also middle names can be special if say you want to honor someone in your 
> family but don't want to use that name as a first name for whatever 
> reason.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Bridgit Pollpeter
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:03 PM
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>
> I don't believe in middle names unless they have some meaning. It just
> seems pointless-- simply my opinion. I have nothing against them, and I
> have one, Bridgit Chantel, but I personally don't think middle names
> have a point unless some reason behind it. Since we are having a boy, we
> plan to use my husband's name, Ross, as the middle name. Otherwise we
> wouldn't have one.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:19:15 -0400
> From: Sirena Carroll <samararaine at gmail.com>
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> Those are great names.
>
> If I have a girl, she will be Ayla Rose. If I have a boy, he will be
> Sean Alexander.
>
> Samara
>
>
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