What is your MIDDLE NAME?

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20 Jan 2011, 12:29 am

It's something really Frenchie--appropriate as I'm Franco-American, but I'm not saying exactly what it is, because i hate it.

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20 Jan 2011, 1:06 am

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20 Jan 2011, 7:15 am

elderwanda wrote:

Another Marie here. I only know one person with the first name "Marie", but many people have that as a middle name, it seems.

I've noticed this. I'm not sure I've ever met someone named Marie, but I've known a few people who shared the middle name. I hated it as a child, but now I think it's kind of nice.

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20 Jan 2011, 11:47 am

I've got two, Hermione Helena.

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20 Jan 2011, 2:31 pm

Kaybee wrote:

elderwanda wrote:

Another Marie here. I only know one person with the first name "Marie", but many people have that as a middle name, it seems.

I've noticed this. I'm not sure I've ever met someone named Marie, but I've known a few people who shared the middle name. I hated it as a child, but now I think it's kind of nice.

Marie is another form of the name Mary. In Germany, it is possible that men are called Maria (another form of Mary) as their middle name. It's the only originally female name that can be given to a man and only as a middle name. Examples include the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the comedian Markus Maria Profitlich. The reasoning behind this is that the Holy Virgin Mary might expend her powers of protection to a man who is named after her. The same reasoning might go for women who have some form of the name Mary as their first or middle name. That would certainly explain why Marie seems to be such a popular middle name.

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