Middle Name (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Many people's names include one or more middle names, placed between the first given name and the surname. In some countries, a middle name is effectively a second given name. In the USA and Canada there is usually only one middle name, often abbreviated by its possessor to the middle initial or omitted entirely in everyday use. In other English speaking countries people will have more than one given name, although they are usually known by one only. In some other countries, the term middle name is only used for names that are originally last names, but not part of the last name of the bearer (for instance one can have one's mother's maiden name as a middle name). Despite their relatively long existence in the Western world, the phrase "middle name" was not recorded until 1835 in Harvardiana, a periodical of the time.