What is the point of a middle name?

So you can use them for serial killers

It’s for when moms yell at their kids. You hear your full name yelled, you know shits about to go down.

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the only time I ever heard mine was when my dad got really mad at me and used in with my first name.

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Petridge farms remembers.

Name a better middle name than Cougar

I go by middle name, have my whole life. My dad and I share a first name, but my mom wanted me to be named my middle name so that's what I go by.

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So you can use them for serial killers

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yep serial killers and assassins.

My guess would be in some past time, even just utilizing the first letter of the middle name, having 26 John Smiths to choose from when looking for one in particular, was helpful. It's still helpful now, though we have many more ways of distinguishing who's who.

I work with data containing thousands of people's names who live in a small geographic area, and middle names are sometimes the only way I know which person in the system I need. There's way more duplicate first name + last name combinations than you'd think. Especially in Hispanic or Asian communities.

I don't use mine anymore. Last became my middle after taking my wife's last name.

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Petridge farms remembers.

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Is that the one that makes sausage from ground-up dogs, cats, goldfish, and ponies?