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I received a Dutch surname as a second middle name. I can never use it -- the "Van" alone is enough to break things. But even without "Van", having two middle
by sevensor 11y ago
I received a Dutch surname as a second middle name. I can never use it -- the "Van" alone is enough to break things. But even without "Van", having two middle names usually does not compute. I've seen people who lack middle names entirely have the opposite problem and insert the middle initial "X" just to satisfy the system.
- phillc73 11y agoMy wife and son have no middle name. An ex-girlfriend also had no middle name. I would have thought it's pretty common.
- 5555624 11y agoI commonly see "NMI" for "No Middle Initial."
- rconti 11y agoSounds like NMI actually is TMI. Perhaps you meant NMN?
- scholia 11y agoMight be a factor of certain systems. I was registered with NMI (not having a middle name) on IBM computers in the early 1970s. Not seen it since.... We were still using punch cards back then.
- StephanTLavavej 11y agoStar Trek memorably listed LT CDR NFN/NMI DATA, see the screenshot at http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Data http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Data (third from the top, on the right).
- scholia 11y agoAh, thanks!
- phillc73 11y agoReplying to myself.... Now that I think about it, in a large chunk of the Slavic world (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc), the majority of people probably have no middle name. A patronymic isn't really a middle name as such.
- Symbiote 11y agoAssuming you're American, that shows that American norms are no longer even the same as in Britain. No middle name isn't uncommon, perhaps one in five people. One middle name is most common. A second middle name isn't at all unusual. Having three suggests an aristocrat — not common, but certainly understood. I remember a Christian friend choosing his second middle name, which I thought was weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation#Confirmation_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation#Confirmation_name
- twic 11y agoTry eight: http://www.onwhichsubject.com/piran/press/ http://www.onwhichsubject.com/piran/press/ We used to rely on this guy to break systems. Not using his name, mind; he's just a really devious programmer.