do you go by your first name or your second? I go by Suzzanne which is my second

first name

Middle name

For quilting board I use both.

My initials, BJ

Shortened first name.

Middle:)

First

First Name.

First

Nickname and first name,Toni Marie. What else can you do when your mother names you Marie Antoinette? Mostly I go by Toni.

first

First

My first name....only my Mother used both when i was in trouble :oops:

Had a family name bestowed on me that noone could pronounce. At 12 I started using my middle name, my father was not happy. When I married, I dropped my first name completely and kept my middle name and took my maiden name as my middle name. I tried to be nicer when I named my own kids!!

1st; although, I'd Rather go by my middle (rae) - just never knew how to make that happen.

Me too! I'll tell you mine if you'll tell me yours!

My first name - I hate my middle name.

What an interesting topic!

When I divorced 11 years ago, I had a name change for me written into the decree. I didn't want his last name any more since he didn't want me. I had 2 DDs by different fathers so their last names were not the same, (and one was married anyway). At 57 I didn't feel like taking up my maiden name again after all those years. And besides, MY maiden name was Janet Jackson! True! (**side story below)

So I legally dropped the "et" from my name, which I had hated for decades, chose a name from my maternal side and a name from my paternal side, put them together legally without a middle name, and it was done. Jan Bennett-Collier

It has caused me no end of problems over the years because way too many people can't read, pronounce, or use their thinkers......I get Jon Benet/Bennett Cou-li-ay, Mrs. Collier, Mrs. Bennett?, Mrs. uh-Bennett-uh.
Still, it's distinctive and the only name like it in the country, kinda fun!

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In a class I was teaching 6 years ago, we were talking about name changes and I told the above story about mine. When I mentioned my maiden name, one of the young (late 20s!) women asked, "Oh! Were you named for her?!" :? :| :roll:

And these people vote!!

Jan in VA

first...used to use both names until I started school and the teacher said there were too many kids to be using 2 names for one child. Besides, I used to think that the sole purpose of a middle name was to let you know you were in deep s*#% when you heard both names.

I remember my mom (born in 1912) telling me she was not given a middle name and took her confirmation name as her middle name.

first name (and I'm named after my Father, no kidding)

first name, which I dislike and love my middle name.

First because my parents did not give me a middle name

Back in Dallas, I go by my first name. My husband calls me by my middle name which is what I go by in the Austin area.

The only one to call me by my full name was my aunt, it didn't matter if I was in trouble or not, she called me by my full name!

First name Linda and like SuziC Linda Fay when I was young and in trouble with my Mom.

That is funny.

:-D

I guess mine would be a combo - I have always been Maribeth, but my given name is Mary Elizabeth and I will never answer to that because I assume I am in trouble if you are calling me that.:-D

My mother spelled my name with an 'i' so I wouldn't be mistaken for a southerner, kind of silly for a gal known around Boston, Mass. as Dixie :-) and I told her a long time ago, that if she didn't want me to be southern she shouldn't have moved to the south.

First name Kathy or KAthleen,sometimes my parents would call my by my middle name Shawn or both if they were angry

first name....both if i was in trouble lol

shortened first name

Initials. Hate my name. Never liked it. First name is 2 names and no middle name. Most people get it wrong anyway.

No kidding?!! I'm named after my father and grandfather too(guess they really wanted a boy), but go by my middle... lynn

Nick name, totally unrelated to legal names. From a small child I insisted that I had the wrong name and refused to answer to anything except Paddy, so most called me Patty.

kinda my frirst name

Nickname

Barb- short for Barbara, which I tell everyone is reserved for my Mother. I love my middle name, which is my daughter's middle name. She is the 4th generation to have Marie in her name. She said if she had a daughter, it would not be Marie as a middle name. I was disappointed, but Zack took care of that.

First

Middle name, Ann. Don't like first name.

Depending on family it's either Susan or Susie, or Sue but I go by Sue. Still, when I tell people my name is Sue they end up calling me Susie- maybe it's a term of endearment, I don't know. Doesn't matter to me!!
I hated that song A boy Named Sue b/c EVERYBODY teased me about it lol