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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhy do some Brits have so many names? For instance,
Peter Noone is Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone, and
Hayley Mills is Hayley Rose Catherine Vivian Mills?
Peter Townshend is Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend.
Siwsan
(26,268 posts)Named after my 2 grandmothers, a saint, a queen and then my surname.
Goonch
(3,608 posts)as the parents of Paula St. John Lawrence Lawler Byrne Strong Yeats Stevenson Callaghan Hunt Milne Smith Thompson Shankley Bennett Paisley OSullivan definitely did in 1966, when they gave their daughter the surnames of the entire 1963-4 Liverpool football teamplus their manager and trainersas middle names.
Can you imagine if they had picked a team from a country with a different language?
Harker
(14,024 posts)to pile on saints and relatives.
Better that than leave someone out!
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)name with no hyphen. He's the product of a mixed ethnic and gender relationship. It's just part
of the wonderful diversity that makes up The Human Race.
Chainfire
(17,549 posts)But I was better off than one of my class mates who's legal first two names were C. W. The name must have caused him grief on every form he ever had to fill out.
Harker
(14,024 posts)or a Post?
Chainfire
(17,549 posts)but I seem to remember his surname as Hansford.
Harker
(14,024 posts)but I get what you mean about the difficulty it would cause.
I'm sympathetic - I've had to say, "two RS and all Es" for my first name, and, "no E" for my last name for my entire life.
lastlib
(23,248 posts)New recruit, R.B. Jones (no names, just the initials), fills out his induction forms, R(only) B(only) Jones. His dog tags come back with "Ronly Bonly Jones" ---
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)We couldn't even afford middle names, leaving me with an asterisk on my driving license.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)She was called Freddie all her life, though. Not short for anything, just Freddie. Her brothers had proper first and middle names, as did her parents. I wish I knew the story behind my grandparents not having a name for their first child and only daughter.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)giving them three middle initials
geomon666
(7,512 posts)That's just wrong.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)He said he supposed youd call it a roll.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)Mendocino
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|sarge43
(28,941 posts)And his mother was a jockey?
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Never mind
Skittles
(153,169 posts)AKA "Dusty Springfield"