10 Facts About Middle name

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In various cultures, a middle name is a portion of a personal name that is written between the person's first given name and their surname.

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Not every name that stands as the middle word in a three-name string is a middle name.

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3.

Middle name that is rather unusual among English speakers is that of Jennifer 8.

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4.

Lee was not given a middle name at birth so she chose "8" when she was a teenager, in a nod to her Chinese ancestry; in Chinese culture, the number eight symbolizes prosperity and good luck.

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5.

An alternative courtesy Middle name is the hao, which usually referred to as the pseudonym.

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6.

The Chinese given name usually has two characters which are usually combined into a single middle name for better organizational purposes, especially with Cantonese names, such as Bruce Lee's middle name, Junfan.

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Together with a person's personal identification number in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, or Iceland, only signing with the tilltalsnamn and the last Middle name is usually sufficient for almost all legal documents.

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In Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, the legal term middle name refers most often to names that are originally surnames, but not part of the last name of the name bearer.

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Unless his full Middle name is used, he is correctly referred to as Mr Lange, not as Mr Manthey Lange.

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10.

For example, Danish politician Lars Løkke Rasmussen has some of the most common given and last names in Denmark ; his mother's maiden name is the slightly more unusual name Løkke, derived from a small agricultural property, so he uses it as a middle name, which differentiates him from other people named Lars Rasmussen.

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