Please ... at least state your first name

[RML]

Now what if someone has more than 1 middle initial?

Things are even odder in Mongolia. There people generally only use their given name. When distiguishing between people with the same name, they use the first letter of their father's given name (using more letters until a unique name is reached) in front of their given name. So, my wife is S. Sumiya. Sumiya being her given name, the S being the initla for her father's name Surenjav. When written fully her name becomes Surenjaviin Sumiya, meaning Surenjav's Sumiya. They also have a family name (which I've forgotten right now. Shame on me!) but that is hardly ever used; only in very official circumstances and on her passport.

Funny thing is, when our daughter was born her name became S. Nomin or Sumiyagiin Nomin. When she came to Holland, her name became Nomin Sumiya but when I recognised her as my daughter here in Holland, her name became Nomin Lang because there was no way to keep her Mongolian name intact. It would otherwise become Sumiya Lang (which would be my wife's name if she decides to take my last name) or Sumiya Nomin (which is the wrong way around) or sumpfing but not anything that would sound correct.

 

[RML]

As i said : my first is Jean-Baptiste, it is a double first, i never seperate it and in continental europe no one would.

But in the english world : try to have people spell properly my first double name is pretty hard.
And i cannot translate : would you go with "john-the-baptsite as your first name 🙁

Therefore in the english world and on the net, just call me J-B

Cheers.

J-B, I wouldn't sweat it really! There are plenty of Jean-Baptiste's in the English speaking world, and no-one takes offense. Go to those areas where many Hispanic people live, for instance in the US, and your name won't be all that extraordinary. Besides, I like the name. It has a certain ring to it.

 

[leafy]

Jiawei , that's actually 2 characters, Jia and Wei. Family name is Ye (Yeh in another spelling) meaning 'leaf', hence the nickname. I used to register at KEH for their free catalogues, but they never got my name right. They would either address me as Mr. Chia, or Mr. Wei, never Mr. Ye or Yeh, I guess it's something to do with the middle initials.

Jiawei

 

[franceluxemburg]

J-B, I wouldn't sweat it really! There are plenty of Jean-Baptiste's in the English speaking world, and no-one takes offense. Go to those areas where many Hispanic people live, for instance in the US, and your name won't be all that extraordinary. Besides, I like the name. It has a certain ring to it.

Mon très cher Rémy, V.S.O.Pal , i have absolutely no problems with spanish speaking people as my double first name is very common in the hispanic community. 🙂

But they cannot utter properly my last name. 🙁

Cheers.

J-B

 

[Socke]

I ran into a gentleman with nick name Goat's Lips. Figure this one out! In fact, he owns a deli with great sandwiches here in Pensacola.

My first name, Ra-id, means "Leader", "Pioneer", and it is the military rank of "Major". It is also used for "Astronaut".

Interresting, Hett comes from middle german Hete and means goat, too.
Ziegenhain is a combined word from Goat (the newer form) and bosk. So there we can see what my ancestors did to earn a living 🙂

Volker comes from Volk, folk or people, and in my case it's taken from the Nibelungen Saga.

 

[BJ Bignell]

Now what if someone has more than 1 middle initial?

I have two middle initials... there's never room on any kind of form for my whole name. My second middle name is highly neglected as a result; it appears on my passport, but not on other official documentation. 🙄 My second middle name doesn't even appear in my username here!

Officially, that means I'm two different people, but with brains barely enough for one! 😀

 

[BrianShaw]

"Rudeness has no place in any discussion and it's particulary loathsome when practiced behind the anonymity of a web forum." From Charlie

As Charlie suggests using our own names might make people think twice about being insenstive. Jim Gibson

One would hope... but it seems like some of the insensitivity and aggressive bickering occurs between people who are quite certain of the other parties's name. It's a shame... but maybe things will change. Let's hope! Maybe it's already changing... things have been quite congenial around here for a few days.

🙂

 

[TEZillman]

The TE is for Thomas Edward. Pretty boring, huh? Named after two great uncles who were dead before I was born. I go by Tom, but not Tommy. I'm told I would have been named Joyce if I was of the other gender. A younger (female) cousin got that one.

 

[ddunn]

Vincent.

That's interesting - now that you mention it - all the forms I've filled out over the years always asked for a Middle Initial! Since I have a MI it never occurred to me that someone might not.

But did anyone ever "hassle" you about leaving the "blank" blank?

Guess you could've really screwed things up if you had put in a number or an punctuation mark! 😉

Harry Truman had no middle name. To deal with the leaving the "blank" blank hassle when he went into the Army, he put in an "S," which stood for absolutely nothing but S. It's amazing how few times in print his name is correctly spelled--Harry S Truman (no period after the S), and how often today you run into the Spell Checker hassle that insists on a period after the S.

And, yielding to group pressure, I added my first name to my signature.

 

[bmattock]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096925/quotes

Dr. Webster: Now I think the first thing we should do is pick out a name for you and I think that you should pick it. Do you know what you want your name to be? What?
Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: Judy Finkel!
Dr. Webster: Judy Finkel is a nice name, but it's a woman's name.
Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: Okay!
Dr. Webster: No, it's not okay! You really should have a man's name. Now I want you to think of a man's name, something that suits you.
Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: William F. Buckley!
Dr. Webster: There already is a William F. Buckley.
Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: Okay! William G. Buckley!
Dr. Webster: I think you should have your own name, a name that's not like a famous person's.
Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: Bob! Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga! Anyone famous named Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga?
Dr. Webster: I doubt it!

 

[Nick R.]

Now what if someone has more than 1 middle initial?

Things are even odder in Mongolia. There people generally only use their given name. When distiguishing between people with the same name, they use the first letter of their father's given name (using more letters until a unique name is reached) in front of their given name. So, my wife is S. Sumiya. Sumiya being her given name, the S being the initla for her father's name Surenjav. When written fully her name becomes Surenjaviin Sumiya, meaning Surenjav's Sumiya. They also have a family name (which I've forgotten right now. Shame on me!) but that is hardly ever used; only in very official circumstances and on her passport.

Funny thing is, when our daughter was born her name became S. Nomin or Sumiyagiin Nomin. When she came to Holland, her name became Nomin Sumiya but when I recognised her as my daughter here in Holland, her name became Nomin Lang because there was no way to keep her Mongolian name intact. It would otherwise become Sumiya Lang (which would be my wife's name if she decides to take my last name) or Sumiya Nomin (which is the wrong way around) or sumpfing but not anything that would sound correct.

Ouch! You made my head hurt with this one 🙂

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Ouch! You made my head hurt with this one 🙂

Tell me about it. I did follow; but I still had to read it twice. Oh, do I know the pain of explaining things to people behind the desk who need everything written with a No. 2 pencil, and only with a No. 2 pencil.

That's a good example, RML.

 

[bmattock]

Sittin' there on the bench, sitting there on the Group W bench, filling out the forms and playing with the pencils.

 

[lushd]

Well - I was christened Donald, but when I am Ireland it is not unusual for people to call me Dónal (the Irish version of the name). It means world champion...

I am not a world champion but I own more Zorkis than anyone in my street.

 

[Ergo]

My name is,my name is,my name is...

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