I commonly use my middle initial, not to be pretentious, but because there are so many people who have the same first and last name as me. I expect within a sma

I commonly use my middle initial, not to be pretentious, but because there are so many people who have the same first and last name as me. I expect within a smaller pool of names (a culturally distinct region), or in the global space, that's why most people use them.