Do you have a Middle name?

[marbleheadmaui]

Mother's surname is automatically the babies middle name in our country.


If Angelina Jolie gives birth to Bradd Pitt's baby and named him Leonardo.

The baby's name would be Leonardo Jolie Pitt. e.g

I like that tradition. It lets one trace the Mother's lineage as well. I dated a woman from Columbia who had too many middle names for me to remember, her mother, maternal grandmother, maternal great grandmother etc back IIRC seven or eight generations.

I'm of Irish stock. Middle name Patrick.

Its disadvantageous if the standard is having no middle name. so many people will share a name.

Millions of people would be named Michael Williams, Dennis Robinson, etc


Irish? Are people from Northern Ireland and Ireland considered as one people? Both are Irish right? Do you need a passport to go to the other side?

Pls excuse my ignorance.

My people are from West Cork mostly. The folks in the Republic Of Ireland are generally a mix of Irish and Viking and Norman and mostly Catholic. The folks in Northern Ireland/the Six Counties are generally of Scots-Presbyterian stock (who moved to Ireland in the 17th Century), who really think of themselves that way or as English, or the same backgrounds at in the Republic. I haven't been to the North since the Peace accords were signed. But last time I was there one did not need a passport, hell there weren't even checkpoints at the border in operation. Up North there was, at that time, a very tribal difference between the two groups.

I'm sure someone here has a more recent experience.