I want to Franciscan University and there were so many Mary double names it was almost comical, including a student who was a religious sister named Sister John Mary
I love that the mum is angry that her daughter is ‘not learning to write her name correctly’ and completely ignoring the fact that her work is completely wrong.
But the paper is weird anyway. She wrote hat, where the picture of a hat is. But she got it wrong because apparently the word is hot. And cat has a picture of a crib...
We didn’t realize my great-uncle’s name was Bill-Lee instead of Billy until we read his obituary. Should’ve figured. All his siblings had hyphenated names although none went by them.
I remember watching Coal Miners daughter & Loretta's kids all had double names. Not proper names, nicknames. Jack Benny? I thought why his he named after a comedian? But they were all like that. Patsy, Peggy not Patricia or Margret. And then tack the Sue on of course.
Same with my grandma, she was called "elli" all her life, even her passport and all official documents were on that name, like bank accounts and stuff like that, but when she died we found the birth certificate which said "Elizabeth". I think my grandpa knew but for me it was mind blowing.
Omg this reminds me of a high school friend in 9th grade who was named Lili-Ann but went by Lilly. She got into a lot of fights with the teacher over the spelling of her name, since she preferred Lilly over the weird spelling of Lillian
I wonder if after yelling for the first three for dinner, they decided that Frank saved their lung power. I grew up with a family of seven children, with the father a retired officer and the mother a retired military as well. Granted that half of them only had double names, it would have been a longer yelling for dinner for them. I had to admit even when we were 1/2 mile to a mile up the hillside, we could hear suppertime from the father for all his kids. Man, that is lung power, especially with seven kids. It was awesome him and the family.
My sister is named after my aunties, Norah-May. Fortunately she wasn't named after my other aunts Ginnifer and Winifred. Ginny-Winny was a serious contender for about 5 months.
Omg my siblings and I initials spell something. Cats, Eros, arts, Mars. No double names but two middle names. My parents thought they were hilarious. 😑
My brother had a triple name because when the next door neighbor was trying to think of it (she had three sons of her own), she'd call him "Bobby-Joey-OhshitJim". Miss you, Jeanine!
@@redrooster1908 Oh, it can be much worse. I shouldn't tell this, but I will. A friend told me this, in whom I would trust my life with, honest as the day is long, so I know it's true. She worked at a hospital discharging patients. A woman was being discharged after giving birth to twin baby girls, she said the babies were just adorable. She asked her what names she chose...the woman said she found two names in a book that she thought were French, and she pronounced them in sort of a French-sounding way....on paper, though, they were "Syphilis"- with emphasis on "phyllis" (her mom's name)", and "Gonorrhea"- sounding like "ga-nora", and call her "Nora". I k i d y o u n o t. I'm even afraid to Google them! Can you imagine them on Facebook?? Oh lawd, I hope somebody helped rename them.
My grandfather from Mississippi's name went in the other direction, which is giving initials as a complete name. His was W.L. That's it -- that's the whole name: W.L. Stood for nothing but the sounds "double-you-ell", "Dub" for short. The Army was very perplexed and kept trying to give him fill-in names.
My uncle middle name was just an S he used to tell stories about having problems anywhere they insisted on full legal names because they wouldn't believe it wasn't an initial. Eventually he had it changes to Ses and told everyone the first S is silent.
My family has called my brother by his first two initials (GW) pretty much all his life, until he went to high school and started going by his first name. It's still really confusing when his fiance calls him by his name rather than his initials!
I have always been incredibly grateful my parents did not choose to do the traditional Hispanic last name. My mom’ maiden name is super Scottish and does not go with Hernandez at all. 🤣
My first exposure to the Hispanic double last names was in boot camp. A fellow in my platoon put both of his last names in the paperwork. It went in as a singe name: Cedenoescalante. The drill instructors just called the poor fellow "Alphabet". I think he revised the paperwork after he graduated to just go with Cedeno. (It's Cedeño, but I don't think they had a ñ.) Spending time in South America in more recent years, I've gotten quite used to the double last names.
We live in Mexico and I have to explain all the time why we don't have the two last names, and why I have the same last name as my husband. ;-) But, when your passport is used for all of your paperwork...
Did anyone else feel a sympathy pain for John Davidson when he realized he'd disappointed Mrs. Miller (who you know is his momma's friend and has been like an aunt to him his whole life)?
My full birth name is... LONG. Alexandria Shanti Veradisia Starks. Of course I want to change it. To Vivion Alexandri Shanti Veradisi Satya Starks-Grey-(then last name of person I marry) When I was a kid, hearing the full two middle names was a major problem. Meant I was in big trouble
@@kellyriddell5014 true. Although when he started work at 15, he was too shy to tell them he was called Billy. He worked for the same company for almost 50 years. We used to have to remember to ask for George if we rang him at work..and if he ran into someone down the street, we always knew if they were a work colleague or a person from his other life, family, scouts or church by which name they called him. If it was George it was work, if it was Bill it was everything else lol.
My southern grandmother and all my southern relatives always called me by my first and middle name. I find it endearing. This video is fun, especially the Mary part! 😊
@@LanternOfLiberty she wasn't rude, she was sensible..if the lady has an emergency issue she should let doc take care of it instead of making a whole ish about her name/s!
@@originalmix2546 If you don't get proper names written on paperwork, there is a possibility of certain treatments and/or medical procedures bring performed on the incorrect patients. Names actually do matter.
My parents were at a parent-teacher meeting when this couple introduced their child by saying: “Her name is Laura Grace, and we want her called Laura Grace.” We still laugh about it today.
But imagine how it must feel to have to struggle to get people to call you what you want to be called. You introduce yourself like that so you don't have to say it again
@@jaer2354 Well...I know its slightly off topic and my own personal thing...but I wanted to note the subtle but important difference between "WE want her called" and "get people to call you what YOU want to be called".
I went to school with a girl name Albert-Nita which came from her parents combined names. She did not like people calling her just Nita so you had to say the whole tongue tying name 🙄 😏 but I just avoided saying her name at all🤣🤣🤣
In my experience that isn’t common at all lmao, especially among friends. Maybe if you’re talking about somebody your aren’t familiar with or to somebody who may not know who you’re talking about. But among friends?
(laughing) As a French Canadian (double names are common for us too), I can so relate to these things. I've got friends, an uncle, cousins and a kid with double names. My kid often goes by the first portion only with his English speaking friends and while I try to respect his preferences, it makes a little old-fashioned bit of me twitch.
I'm an anglophone from BC, my mom gave me a double name for no reason. Simply just because she liked it that way. I love my name but it's caused problems trying to sign up for car insurance, banking system, etc because some systems don't allow spaces in first names (**** you, ICBC)
Pretty sure in Québec they had to pass a rule to restrict how many names you could give a child because it was getting too wild with the hyphens. I also remember a story book about a kid who hated having so many names (Marie-Soleil Lamontagne-Lafleur)
@@mimisparkles8765I had to look this up to see if it's true, and wow! Just. Wow. It went into effect this past June with a max set of 4 given names. You *know* things must've gotten to a level of absolute ridiculousness when even the GOVERNMENT has to step in! 😅😂🤣
I don't have a double name, but my momma does call me Lily Kathryn when I'm in trouble. Unfortunately as a kid I was in trouble so much that lots of people THOUGHT I had a double name.
My Mom's... You're too big for your britches, girl....angry name for girls was "Eloise Piffen-Poffer". Or Queen of Sheba if you acted high & mighty, snobby.
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Not Southern or even American but I love double names (without a hyphen 😂) and as a Nigerian with more names than letters in the alphabet I think the more the merrier 🤷🏾♀😂
This is quite amusing to me because I’m Australian & we do things the complete opposite. Not only will we not use your full name, but we’ll shorten it as much as we can & probably give you a totally different nickname if we like you.
They used to do that in the US as well. When I was a kid, everyone had a short nickname. I always felt the switch to more "official" nicknames was a little pretentious. It doesn't matter a lot, though - no matter what your parents want you to be called, your friends will eventually devise a nickname for you.
Same here in the Philippines. We have a lot of English/Anglo first names because of the huge American influence on culture here, but we can be so lazy that we'll shorten it to make it as monosyllabic as possible. Andrea becomes Drea becomese Drei. Colloquially, we just end up calling each other either 'girl' or 'boy' in our local dialectic versions because remembering names is honestly too exhausting in 2021 lol
I’m southern and can some one explain this to me. I had no idea that people made fun of us because of double names. I thought every part of the country has this.
@@James-sm5vg probably mostly a southern thing, but not exclusively. My parents were merciful...because our last name is huge, all three kids have a short one syllable first name and no middle name. In school there was a Margaret Ann but I can't think of any others (west coast for reference)
In Finland you can have four names, and each can be a double name, but double names have to be hyphenated. A-B C-D E-F G-H, and then some have hyphenated last names, meaning ten names in total. We number the names, and the one we go by is called kutsumanimi. Kutsuma, this form doesn't exist in English... in it's basic form it's kutsua=to call, nimi=name, so basically it translates to "the name one is called by". With Finns I use my first name, but with everyone who doesn't speak Finnish, I either use my second or third, depending which is easier to pronounce. I also know many families that use the second name as the main name, and many who use different names with different people. So their childhood friends might call them by their second name, UNI friends by first and coworkers by third. In all formal papers we have to write our whole name, then either underline, circle or write separately the name we are called by. The name you are called by doesn't have to be your official name, it can be shortened version, for instance Jonathan to John (not a Finnish name, but an example that is easy to understand).
German has a word for it as well: Rufname = "call name". And we also underline our Rufname but only if it's not the first name. I think legally we can have up to 6 or 5 names but the most I've ever seen are 3.
I love this 🙌🏻😂 As a Latina, we carry 2 last names and they are never hyphenated. We have a first name, middle name, paternal last name & maternal last name. When women get marry they don’t get their husbands last name,. So when a couple have kids, this kids carry both of their progenitors last names. Fist their dads and then theirs moms. Women count too you know 💁🏻♀️
@@eugeniabarsukovaex: luis alvarez vega married maria lopez flores. Maria could change her last name to be alvarez lopez if she wanted. Their kids would have alvarez lopez as their last names.
@@elyssabarajas3554 or she could be maria lopez flores de alvarez (keeping her husbands paternal line but dropping the maternal) "In some instances, such as high society meetings, the husband's surname can be added after the woman's surnames using the conjunction de (of). Thus Leocadia Blanco Álvarez, married to a Pedro Pérez Montilla, may be addressed as Leocadia Blanco de Pérez or as Leocadia Blanco Álvarez de Pérez. This format is not used in everyday settings and has no legal value (with the exception of Argentina and the Dominican Republic)."
Yep, that was me throughout school...or "your parents should be ashamed of themselves for not giving you a middle name...mmmh hmmm" headshake of disapproval. Or once, "were your parents too busy or lazy to give you a middle name?" Now those were fighting words---kicked my cousin's butt---never liked her anyway...
I'm so southern even my CAT has a double name! It's Thelma Mae after my dear late aunt. (Oh yeah, that's another thing we do here- name our pets after dead relatives.)
My husband’s side does multiple middle names for their kids, most of which are family names. For example, his little sister is Mattie Johanna Rose Irene. His younger brother is Gabriel Emory Patrick Scott. Our older niece was named after her dad (his name is Michael, so they named her Michaelon Vivian Irene Faith. Michael + Lynn).
@@brittaniesidebottom this sounds great for when everyone wants to name the baby. We don’t even have a middle name where I live and when there is a new baby choosing one name can make some people upset.
@@brittaniesidebottom Holy Cow! I would have to take a breath between the middle names!😂 Lord forbid they marry into a Latino Catholic family like my friend Mary Katherine Elizabeth did! Her husband came with FOUR LAST NAMES!
Love all the videos. I grew up in New England where I knew zero double named people, moved to the South, married a Southerner, and proudly gave my daughter a double first name.
It’s surprising to know how two totally unrelated cultures from entirely opposite parts of the world have occasional similarities. I come from a state in Southern India and we have double names too. I have struggled my entire life trying to explain to people from my own country and in the US what they should call me. I gave up later and I’m currently going by the first half of my double name 😂. It’s relieving to see there are other people from a different country like me
Don't hold it against them. They can not help it if they do not have a high enough intelligence to comprehend double names. It is too much for their brain to process. I am from South East Texas. A lot of us have the double names. Here in America they are quick to make fun of, and criticize Southerners. This is because we want freedom and deny socialism and/or big government. Now they can make fun of us, but God forbid should we make fun of them. Part of that double standard the Yankees (Northerners) love to practice. But I do not let it get me angry. I simply understand why they do what they do. They fear us Southerners because our religion gives us an inner strength, they do not possess, because they do not have religion. It is why they are trying to destroy religion. When they make fun of us, it is like the stupid kid that is always jealous of the smart kid. Once you understand this, you learn to just pity them, shake your head, say a little prayer for them and move on. There are a lot of low intelligent people out there that are always trying to bring down the rest of us. India: I love your architecture. You are a beautiful people with a rich heritage. Be proud.
Oh, same thing in Jamaica! Sara-Gay, Tomi-ann, Peter-gay. A friend and I were having a convo about what we'd want our names to be if it wasn't what we already have and I said Tony. He went "oh, like Tony-Ann?" And when I went "no, just tony" he was so baffled
I don't have a double name but I gave my late daughter a double middle name in honor of both her grandmothers. Her name is Kadance Ruth-Ann. She would've turned 18 this year ❤
Awww thank you for the love. It's been 18 years since I gave her back to Jesus ❤ I'm trying to make her a big sister it just hasn't happened yet. Praying it will soon though 💜💗
My mom didn't intend to give me a double name, but when we lived in Oklahoma, I became Laura Lou. My mom had a heck of a time trying to explain to my teachers that I'm just Laura. I spent a lot of years as Laura Lou. It never bugged me, but wow, did it drive my mom bats.
I had a teacher give me the nickname Debbie Sue although I was just Debbie and my middle name was Lee. I loved it, and it made me feel special. I later learned her name was Debbie as well.
Same for me, lots of people called me Laura Beth when it was supposed to just be Laura, Beth was just a middle name! It drives me crazy to this day lol.
More interesting to me is the Southern, or maybe just Tennessean, practice of naming a child, say, Tanner Joseph, and calling him Austin ( for example).
My mother has never been called by her first name, since they brought her home from the hospital. I’ve worked in healthcare/medicine for a while and so many charts have things like John David “Carl” Smith. Like calling someone Butch or Missy or Buddy is one thing. Calling someone a whole other name though?!
I grew up in the midwest and northeast. When I attended university in Texas I became aware of that phenomenon! First day of classes doing role call, half the people went by totally different names. LOL
We do that here in Trinidad and Tobago too... we call it a “house name” or “home name”. Something to do with not wanting people to know our real names in case someone with “bad mind” wants to practice Obea (black magic) on us lol
My parents are Indian immigrants, and I always found it so weird that my mom, and all of her siblings, names that they go by are COMPLETELY unrelated to their actual names...people don't even know what my mom's real name is haha...the other day a friend tried to give my mom a check for something and she was shocked when my mom told her she couldn't cash it cuz it didn't have her real name...they've been friends for more than ten years 🤣🤣 My parents always told me it was just an Indian thing, so it's interesting to see that it's also an American southern thing lol
Growing up, the Catholic girls were Mary Pat, Mary Therese, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Catherine, Mary Kathleen, Mary Grace, Mary Colleen...and yes, they went by both names.
@@gracehaven5459 for the longest time growing up I had no idea if my grandmother's name Mary Ann, Mary middle name Ann, or Maryanne. Confused the heck out of me for years.
OMG I never even even noticed at 0:52 the lady in the car is more concerned about "Sarah" than the fact her kid flunked an assignment. I am dying over here!!!!
My mom's name was Virginia, she answered to any variation of it, Ginny, etc. Me I was a stickler for answering to my name and would correct people all the time. Then I just stopped and answered to any variation of Anne, Annie, whatever.
While I don't have a double name, my given name is a nickname. I now prefer to be called just the one name, the nickname (without my "slave" last name, aka my married last name---most people butcher its pronunciation anyway). The biggest thing is: just call me for supper!!
My mother was "Betty June". The older she got, the more surly she was when people called her "Betty". By 93, she would have a full out hissy fit if you addressed her as anything but Betty June. I made sure the obituary didn't just start with Betty June but then referred to her as Betty June the rest of the time. Didn't need the feeling she was growling at me from Above...
I think it's sweet and wonderful that you made sure they referred to her correctly the whole time in her obituary since you knew it meant so much to her that people got it right. June is a beautiful name so if that was part of my name, I would make sure people remembered it too!
My 20 year southern BFF has a double name that, as a northerner, I never got the hang of. Now it's just become a thing for us that I am the only one allowed to single name her as a badge of solidarity between us. That said, this video makes me feel really stonking bad that I never got the hang of it in the first place and that it ever came to that.
Cecilia Ann gave birth to Cathy Ann, Mary Jo, Patty Lynn, and Kelly Suzanne. Cathy Ann had Brandon Mitchell and Corey James while Patty Lynn had Lee Ann Marie. Now Cathy Ann, Mary Jo, Patty Lynn, and Kelly Suzanne had five cousins: Sara Jo, Cindy Lee, Sally Anne, Jennifer Lee and Heather Dawn. The cousins' Momma was Suzi Q and Linda Lee. The three sister's Momma was Jessie. Bless my Gramma's Heart.
For real, my mom and her best friend as kids were Cindy Locke and Cindy Lou [Who] and with three other girls with the same first name as me in any given class or job site, I also answer to "hey you".
One of these moments when you think "how did I get here?!" -- so, I'm German, and we do have double names, but if people go by them they're usually written in one word (we have a thing where we write two words as one, don't ask, it's weird) like Annabella, Heidemarie or Marianne. Now, that I think about it, these kinds of names are actually quite common. They aren't regarded as two names though, but as one. Hyphenated names are also possible but regarded as lower class, as tacky. Names like Sarah-Michelle for example (sorry to every Sarah-Michelle, I know you're a great person). I didn't know double names were a common thing in the South of the US. I strangely feel more educated now, thank you. I have only one name by the way. It sucks. I wish I had more.
That's right. Annelore, Hermann-Josef, Franz-Josef, Klaus-Dieter. The list goes on. We actually call Klaus-Dieter, or whatever it is by their full names. I myself only have one name and people shorten it to: Gab, Gabbi, Gabs.
In Italy middle names are very uncommon and nobody wants to be called both names anyway lol. We do have names that are technically two names but they're regarded as one and they can be written as a single word or two words (such as Gianmarco or Pierluigi). Then we also have a lot of women of the older generation who are called Maria something (Maria Vittoria, Maria Rosa, Maria Grazia). They usually go by their 'second' name or they use both.
I've never heard of hyphenated names being "lower class" but then I also just know people with hyphenated names like Anna-Lena which can be just a normal name. Most people I know (me too) have a middle name but its like a "secret" name? like nobody knows it exists and half of the time we forget that we have a middle name because we only write it if the have to write the whole name as it is on our passport.
okay so william is your first name? joseph your first middle name, james the second and robert the third? johnson is your last name. at least that's how it works in germany 😂
My friend's name is Virginiagrace. She also has a middle name and a hard to pronounce last name. Her last name is not the same as her parents, rather a family name. Her parents both had the same last name before marriage and her middle name is their last name. (like, if their last name was Jamison, her name would be Virginiagrace Jamison Lastname). Her parents and brother all kept the original last name though, so she has a different last name than her entire family, making everything seem more confusing than it is. We just call her Grace :)
That just sounds like her real dad is someone else..or she was adopted and they chose to keep her original last name. For what reason would you give your child an unrelated last name?
3:14 Me as someone who has to process user records. "I don't care what your name is BUT it needs to be: FirstName, LastName, A-Z characters only, no hyphens, no spaces, and used consistently across all records. Plan accordingly"
My great grandmother was an Anna-Elizabeth and she got irritated if anyone tried calling her anything else for short lol. As compared to my younger sister who is an Anna-Michelle and she exclusively goes by Anna besides legal paperwork
@Storm Arashi omgoodness, did she get her last rites? 😳 I'm a nurse and I always try to get what the patient goes by for names in case family calls or if the patient prefers me to call them by something specific.
Right? And if anybody in adulthood should make the mistake of saying your total entire name, you get flashbacks to being in the deepest shit as a kid :P :D
Triple name and double surname because, you know, Mexico! Oh! And whole my life I only used my third name but now I live in the States and only use my first name because is easiest and I am married so basically I have a name that I use in Mexico and other for the States.
My favorite things about the double names is it tell me who’s known my family longest. People where my mother is from will call me by my first and middle even though I don’t have a double name. Same for my sister and father. People basically everywhere else don’t use my mother’s second name and at first she tried to tell them different, but she gave up a while ago. So now I know who all the old family friends are based on how they start a conversation with mother dearest.
@@cmyk8964 I'm a software developer laughed way more at this then I should've 🤣 Also worse if you have the W^ character in your name which isnt supported by unicode
A long name with a space in it is fine. The real problem is when you get into things like "I only have one name" or "I have two completely different personal names and which one I use depends on the language it's being used in.", "My name can be written in any of three different writing systems, including two that are phonetic and one that's logographic", "I don't have a surname, I have a patronymic, which is NOT a surname and should NOT be used as a surname under any circumstances", "The order that my name is said/written depends on which language you're speaking and I'll re-arrange your name and/or transpose it between writing systems to match my language's depending on whether you did the same to mine, unless you speak English.", "My surname has a prefix that should not be treated as part of the surname when sorting." "But my surname has a prefix that DOES affect how the name is sorted.", "I have a first name, a patronymic, and a surname, but the patronymic is not a middle name and should not be used as one", "I not only have a double personal name, but also two surnames either one of which can be doubled up using a hyphen." , and "I have the misfortune of being Elon Musk's son"
I'm from the north and I'd be careful before measuring time with "daylight", lol. I'm pretty sure in another month or so the sun's going to be setting for the day before it even comes up!
@@sarahdangelo3168 I'm from the North too and seasonal depression is kicking in . . . people from the South please send sunlight we're freezing up here
My sister, god bless her, planned on naming her daughter "Darla Lee-Dawn Douell". Thankfully, she only had boys, and spared a child from being cursed with such a stupid name. XD
I’m not southern but my Grandmother from Missouri was Mary-Lee and she insisted that one of her granddaughters have a “Mary” name and my mother named me Maribeth. She chose to change the spelling and not hyphenate it. So I get the video a lot, I’ve had so much more difficulty with my name especially in school. And then to top it off I married my husband who has a hyphenated last name so, I’m just used to have to put a little more explanation into having people understand my name. ☺️
My mom named me and my siblings after saints and my sister is Marianna (for the same reason of not wanting a hyphen) but my brother and I joke that she is so perfect she got named after two saints😂
I know a double namer, Daisy-Alexandra. She goes by Daisy only because when got tired of explaining it to people. I knew her for a full year before I knew her name was Daisy-Alexandra. This video spoke to my soul.
What I don't understand is how people are confused by a double name. Literally just what? I'm not even from the south, I'm in canada.... why are people so dumb to need to have a name explained to them solely because it's longer than they're used to?
My great grandmother was named after her father and often gets "Mr"d in paperwork even though her middle name is Marie... I guess after you've had 11 boys and girls, you can't be bothered to strictly gender the 12th.
At least in my family it depended on the level of anger - name = irked. Name + middle name = mad. Name + middle name + last name = you better have a last will and testament.
My people call me by a pet name. It means no trouble. If they call my first name or double name, there's some trouble but mostly mild Full name means death 🙃
I'm glad they included a few male examples as an Alabamian with a double name Tristan-Blaine this was very relatable, I have dropped Blaine in most settings but my family won't acknowledge that lmao
Well I thought she was married or something and shared a Zoom account with her husband or something. It’s an online class, so I’ve never actually met these people in person.
@@Nadia-ox1kf often it is the child's mother's maiden name or a grandmother's. Sometimes its out of respect for someone they admire. I think my dad said he was named after a friend of his parents, but not why or if Briggs was the guy's first or last name.
I know a girl from Alabama who named her son South. A pair of Alabama UA-camrs I watch (Cullen and Katie) named their daughter Macey Gaines and their son Brooks Walker. She goes by Macey Gaines or Gaines (never just Macey) and Brooks goes by Brooks. It’s my understanding Gaines’ name came from Cullen’s side (his grandma’s maiden name) and Walker is Katie’s maiden name. I could be remembering wrong though. And another couple I watch on a TLC show called Sweet Home Sextuplets have 9 kids and are also from Alabama. Their 6 boys are Blu Wellington, Tag Brickers, Layke Bryars, Saylor Briggs, Bridge Ryder, Wales Tucker. Their 3 girls are Rivers McCall, Rayne McCoy, and Rawlings McClaine. I’m not sure the story behind their names though. Saylor is the oldest and a singleton, Bridge and Wales are next and are twins, and Blu, Tag, Layke, Rivers, Rawlings, and Rayne are sextuplets.
This is what I needed i just got through playing a really rough flag football game we got zero points and it was raining thanks so much for the laugh it really helped to cheer me up love yalls videos
Hello! A Slavic girl here. I have a patronym (father's name), but none of those double names, or middle name you guys have. Am I right that all these TJ, PJ, CJ are just initials of southern people who were struggling from people in other parts of the USA can't process their double name? When I first learned that a person may be almost officially called with just 2 letters I was astonished.
For some folks, the initials do represent a double name. But for some folks, the initials were always what their parents chose and planned to call them, while for others, they used either just their first name or just their middle name and later decided they wanted the initials. Often in that latter case, it's that the single name they were going by is hard to spell, hard to pronounce, or just sticks out in a situation where they want to blend in. Lastly, some people who use initials for their written name use a single name in person; for example, my grandpa here in Texas always wrote and signed his name T.P. _____ [surname], though everyone called him by his first name, Truman. But yes, some people who go by initials _are_ shortening a double name.
I had 8 letters in my first name, 14 letters in my last name, a 5 letter middle name and I chose Elizabeth for my confirmation name. Most of my adult life I've just gone by Amy because my married name starts with Y so my initials are A.M.Y. Screw all that alphabet soup.
The funniest thing is when you have someone like 'mary-elizabeth' who just goes by 'mary-beth.' Like. Picking and choosing what abbreviations are acceptable are can be amusing...
It's because Southerner's are usually named in honor of a family member or a close family friend. The second name is to keep everyone else from all answering at once. 😁
I don't have an official double name on my birth certificate, but my mom's been adding -lou on for so long I used to think it was! Emmylou like the singer.
My Aunt called me Amy Lou Who, I just hated it Just Amy please, they should do a video on the different spelling of name's, that could go on for day's 😉
Oh, reminds me of double names here in Quebec. We got Jean-François, Marie-Claude, Marie-Inès, Marie-Pierre, Julie-Pierre… Marie-Pierre (Mary-Peter) is a girl, but Pierre-Mary (Peter-Mary) is a boy, because the man name is before the woman name. Usually, girl double names eventually become single names, like Marianne, Mariève (Mary-eve), etc.
In Germany, "Maria" was often used by Catholics for a boy's middle name. You may have heard of the actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, the writer Erich Maria Remarque, or the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
@Elizabeth Harper Nope - John-Lee said it the right way ! I have a "Deep Southern" grandson. When he was young and came to Ohio he needed a translator in public. We needed to have a few days of "talking" lessons with the cousins, every visit. Now- as an adult, he takes a day to acclimatize himself.
At my daughters Catholic school, she has Mary Elizabeth, Mary Grace, Mary Frances and just plain Mary, we call her Mary Mary.
Mary Mary????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I want to Franciscan University and there were so many Mary double names it was almost comical, including a student who was a religious sister named Sister John Mary
Mary Mary? Oh, kinda like the gospel singers, lol.
This brings memories of Catholic school. I even had a cat named Mary.
Ahaha, wow! I only know the names Anne Marie and Marybeth. Thats amazing 😂
I love that the mum is angry that her daughter is ‘not learning to write her name correctly’ and completely ignoring the fact that her work is completely wrong.
No, she had 2,5 questions right.
Brooke H . I don”t know the American grading system, but she had BAG and JAR right and she got a half point for SON (the correct word was SUN).
@@OP-1000 yeah in the US getting only 2 or 3 answers right out of 12 would be a failing grade.
Rose K . I was reacting to original comment. They said her work was completely wrong and I pointed out that she had 2,5 questions right.
But the paper is weird anyway. She wrote hat, where the picture of a hat is. But she got it wrong because apparently the word is hot.
And cat has a picture of a crib...
We didn’t realize my great-uncle’s name was Bill-Lee instead of Billy until we read his obituary. Should’ve figured. All his siblings had hyphenated names although none went by them.
LOL - I'm dying. That's so good.
I remember watching Coal Miners daughter & Loretta's kids all had double names. Not proper names, nicknames. Jack Benny? I thought why his he named after a comedian? But they were all like that. Patsy, Peggy not Patricia or Margret. And then tack the Sue on of course.
Same with my grandma, she was called "elli" all her life, even her passport and all official documents were on that name, like bank accounts and stuff like that, but when she died we found the birth certificate which said "Elizabeth". I think my grandpa knew but for me it was mind blowing.
Hilarious that it wasn’t even “William-Lee”. 🤣😅
*_Humans are hilarious._*
Omg this reminds me of a high school friend in 9th grade who was named Lili-Ann but went by Lilly. She got into a lot of fights with the teacher over the spelling of her name, since she preferred Lilly over the weird spelling of Lillian
Overheard a lady call her children in a public bathroom once. She called about 6 different names but actually only had 2 girls.
As a Mississippian, 'Mary Rae Helen Bader Johnston' is so Mississippian it may as well be a mayonnaise sandwich.
Yeah I read that in a southern accent 😂😂😂
@@Lilly-dk5bg 🤣 I lost most my southern accent , but it kicked back up
when I read it ...
I always put a slice of beefsteak tomato on my mayonnaise sandwich.
@@momstermom2939 Fried Green Tomato w/ Spicy Mayo is Yummm 😋
Oh, I love this. You're completely right, of course. I grew up in Vicksburg and I well remember mayonnaise sandwiches!
My grandfather's siblings were named Irma Lee, John Dee, and William Earl (aka: Willy Merle) but his name was ....... Frank.
🤣🤣🤣 Gotta love it!
I wonder if after yelling for the first three for dinner, they decided that Frank saved their lung power. I grew up with a family of seven children, with the father a retired officer and the mother a retired military as well. Granted that half of them only had double names, it would have been a longer yelling for dinner for them. I had to admit even when we were 1/2 mile to a mile up the hillside, we could hear suppertime from the father for all his kids. Man, that is lung power, especially with seven kids. It was awesome him and the family.
😁
Willy Merle is a good nickname
😂
My sister is named after my aunties, Norah-May.
Fortunately she wasn't named after my other aunts Ginnifer and Winifred. Ginny-Winny was a serious contender for about 5 months.
I was about to say, well, at least they sound good, she was lucky, when I read the rest of your comment and realized she was extremely lucky
Oh that poor baby... dodged a bullet only to end up WinniGinni
Heavens to Betsy. Rhyming on double names is a no-no. Norah-May is nice though.
Ginni-Winni Hilli
I got thousandth like on this comment
And my biggest worry in naming my kid was making sure their initials didn't make a word by accident
me too!
Omg my siblings and I initials spell something. Cats, Eros, arts, Mars. No double names but two middle names. My parents thought they were hilarious. 😑
I know someone whose initials are AKA
Mine spells RAW
My granddaddy’s were JEW, so my uncle & my cousin are both JEW as well.
I didn’t think of that and Melissa Ann Porter was not happy.
I grew up with a double name,
My mother always called me "Joshua Damnit!"
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@@sasquatchdonut2674 Supremely underrated! I think i had a triple name, then! LOL
I was not expecting this comment I'm dead 🤣💀 dude got me in tears.
My brother had a triple name because when the next door neighbor was trying to think of it (she had three sons of her own), she'd call him "Bobby-Joey-OhshitJim". Miss you, Jeanine!
🤣
"And Mary......this just says Mary. Is that a typo?"
😅🤭
Could be worse. This week a co-worker had a baby girl she named Ziva. White people in Wisconsin USA. Poor kid
Mary Kate Olson the TV child star. I always thought her twin got cheated a bit....just Ashley.
@@redrooster1908 Oh, it can be much worse. I shouldn't tell this, but I will. A friend told me this, in whom I would trust my life with, honest as the day is long, so I know it's true. She worked at a hospital discharging patients. A woman was being discharged after giving birth to twin baby girls, she said the babies were just adorable. She asked her what names she chose...the woman said she found two names in a book that she thought were French, and she pronounced them in sort of a French-sounding way....on paper, though, they were "Syphilis"- with emphasis on "phyllis" (her mom's name)", and "Gonorrhea"- sounding like "ga-nora", and call her "Nora".
I k i d y o u n o t.
I'm even afraid to Google them! Can you imagine them on Facebook?? Oh lawd, I hope somebody helped rename them.
@@redrooster1908 Yeah, lol, that's pretty bad.
Once knew a Charley-Lee. Could never get passed the cruelty of giving a kid the same last syllable twice.
Lol I know a Charlie Lee
Could be worse, Charliey- Lee Leigh..
Imagine the pain of Stan Lee. If he didn’t shorten his first name he would have been Stanley Lee.
@@stopthenames Charlie-Lee Leigh Lee
@@stopthenames i was gonna say
My grandfather from Mississippi's name went in the other direction, which is giving initials as a complete name. His was W.L. That's it -- that's the whole name: W.L. Stood for nothing but the sounds "double-you-ell", "Dub" for short. The Army was very perplexed and kept trying to give him fill-in names.
Same for a friend of mine KC. His army name tag read K-only C-only because they did not use single letters.
My uncle middle name was just an S he used to tell stories about having problems anywhere they insisted on full legal names because they wouldn't believe it wasn't an initial. Eventually he had it changes to Ses and told everyone the first S is silent.
My family has called my brother by his first two initials (GW) pretty much all his life, until he went to high school and started going by his first name. It's still really confusing when his fiance calls him by his name rather than his initials!
I know someone like that in my church's district. They are older so I think that was common lol.
@@amazinggrace5692 I'm surprised they didn't use "Casey"
When you're southern and Hispanic, we got quadruple names and no hyphens
I have always been incredibly grateful my parents did not choose to do the traditional Hispanic last name. My mom’ maiden name is super Scottish and does not go with Hernandez at all. 🤣
😂🤣😂😂
My first exposure to the Hispanic double last names was in boot camp. A fellow in my platoon put both of his last names in the paperwork. It went in as a singe name: Cedenoescalante. The drill instructors just called the poor fellow "Alphabet". I think he revised the paperwork after he graduated to just go with Cedeno. (It's Cedeño, but I don't think they had a ñ.) Spending time in South America in more recent years, I've gotten quite used to the double last names.
when ur name is Jaci Lynn Maria Garcia
We live in Mexico and I have to explain all the time why we don't have the two last names, and why I have the same last name as my husband. ;-) But, when your passport is used for all of your paperwork...
Did anyone else feel a sympathy pain for John Davidson when he realized he'd disappointed Mrs. Miller (who you know is his momma's friend and has been like an aunt to him his whole life)?
Yep
I felt bad for him, too, bless his 💜
Yeah, I felt bad for HIM. "Auntie" Miller can suck eggs for all I care, let the man be a MAN and choose his OWN NAME!
@@ruthcampo4377 i think you had a slightly different reaction then the rest of us
I laughed so hard when he said "I don't even know how to skateboard" because the JD I do know is in fact a skater in his 30s 😂
My grandfather once told me that southerners love their kids so much, they named them twice.
That's a wholesome explanation
Oh gosh, this sounds so sweet... And makes perfect sense now
Home sweet ________
Harsh love you mean.
@@ryanwells7842
That‘s gods way of loving children.
That and through his priests. 😇
the fear this strikes in my heart as someone from a regional culture where being called your double name means you're in big shit lol
LMAO! exactly! I never KNEW I had a middle name until i was in trouble!
Right! Northern part of USA for one.
My full birth name is... LONG. Alexandria Shanti Veradisia Starks.
Of course I want to change it.
To Vivion Alexandri Shanti Veradisi Satya Starks-Grey-(then last name of person I marry)
When I was a kid, hearing the full two middle names was a major problem. Meant I was in big trouble
Oh we still get that. It’s just a long list of names where each one escalates your panic
What'd you do? If you got a middle name level asswhooping what did you do?
"I love monograms like every other God-fearing southern woman"
MrBj is a crazy monogram
All proper southern lady loves her a monogram
Okay This!!!!😂😂😂
This spoke to my soul! 🤣
Well, I do believe someone had "JC" monogrammed on his robe back in the day.
“Oh, so you’re DOCTOR Jacobs-Waters.” 😂
That actually ruffled my feathers a bit!
That one cracked me up.
@@LadyEowyn lol yeah
@@esppupsnkits4560 me too lol
🤣🤣
My dad was named George Henry. The only person who called him that was my Grandmother. Everyone else called him...Billy...😕🤷🏽♀️
My Dad is George Darrel...and he is called Billy too lol.
@@virginiaviola5097 🤣
Naturally!
Ah yes, the common nickname for George (or Henry, for that matter)... Billy. rofl
@@kellyriddell5014 true. Although when he started work at 15, he was too shy to tell them he was called Billy. He worked for the same company for almost 50 years. We used to have to remember to ask for George if we rang him at work..and if he ran into someone down the street, we always knew if they were a work colleague or a person from his other life, family, scouts or church by which name they called him. If it was George it was work, if it was Bill it was everything else lol.
My southern grandmother and all my southern relatives always called me by my first and middle name. I find it endearing. This video is fun, especially the Mary part! 😊
“Oh so you’re DOCTOR Jacobs-Waters” 😂😂 the shade
I would have told that rude M.A. to go back to New York.
@@LanternOfLiberty she wasn't rude, she was sensible..if the lady has an emergency issue she should let doc take care of it instead of making a whole ish about her name/s!
@@originalmix2546 If you don't get proper names written on paperwork, there is a possibility of certain treatments and/or medical procedures bring performed on the incorrect patients. Names actually do matter.
That was savage!
Was funny until the nurse had attitude problem. There was no reason to be like that.
Matt is totally believable as a teacher, especially when he's so exhausted and disappointed. 😁
Reminds me a lot of my geography teacher in high school actually lol
Poor Matt, he must have 50 kids in that class 🤣🤣🤣
He is a very funny guy, but its like he isn't even trying, which makes it all the more amusing.
The mouthed "whatever" really sold it for me
Lol thats why the teacher would just state the last names in my classes🤣
My parents were at a parent-teacher meeting when this couple introduced their child by saying: “Her name is Laura Grace, and we want her called Laura Grace.” We still laugh about it today.
But imagine how it must feel to have to struggle to get people to call you what you want to be called. You introduce yourself like that so you don't have to say it again
I so get it. I'm Rhonda Marie and I want to be called Rhonda Marie, no hyphen. LOL!!!
@@jaer2354 Well...I know its slightly off topic and my own personal thing...but I wanted to note the subtle but important difference between "WE want her called" and "get people to call you what YOU want to be called".
I went to school with a girl name Albert-Nita which came from her parents combined names. She did not like people calling her just Nita so you had to say the whole tongue tying name 🙄 😏 but I just avoided saying her name at all🤣🤣🤣
@@jaer2354 I already struggle with my singular name and now I just go by my middle name (Emily)
I'm so happy my grandfather asked me why I wanted to burden my son with all those names 🤣. Wise man. Thanks Gramps.
“I tried going by JD, but I don’t even know how to skateboard!” This one got me laughing 😆
It's the most JD thing ever hahaha
? I don't understand this joke
@@hanwentian5079 me too
@@hanwentian5079 JD is a typical skateboarder name
@@justanotheranimeprofilepic but why?? lol :)
I had a Chinese friend who I called Winnie Lou. Eventually she asked me why I kept calling her by her first AND last name 😮 🤣
Lol
Funny thing is, it's really common to use the full name in Chinese, even among friends xD
@@soaringaegis what full name? Lol
@@ThevralLee they mean saying the person's entire name rather than just their given name
In my experience that isn’t common at all lmao, especially among friends. Maybe if you’re talking about somebody your aren’t familiar with or to somebody who may not know who you’re talking about. But among friends?
4:04 "I tried going by JD, but...I don't even know how to skateboard." 😂😂😂
Which is amazingly accurate 😂
Thing is.... I tried to get my son to go by JD as well, but it’s so hard to holler at him as JD. His full name just comes out easier.
Lmao
But do you drink?
But for real though. This line is ingenious. This is some seriously next level clever humor.
(laughing) As a French Canadian (double names are common for us too), I can so relate to these things. I've got friends, an uncle, cousins and a kid with double names. My kid often goes by the first portion only with his English speaking friends and while I try to respect his preferences, it makes a little old-fashioned bit of me twitch.
And we have double last names. I feel bad for the kids with 4 names
I’m French Canadian too and I usually refer to my friends with nicknames or initials, I agree that double names are a pain
I'm an anglophone from BC, my mom gave me a double name for no reason. Simply just because she liked it that way. I love my name but it's caused problems trying to sign up for car insurance, banking system, etc because some systems don't allow spaces in first names (**** you, ICBC)
Pretty sure in Québec they had to pass a rule to restrict how many names you could give a child because it was getting too wild with the hyphens.
I also remember a story book about a kid who hated having so many names (Marie-Soleil Lamontagne-Lafleur)
@@mimisparkles8765I had to look this up to see if it's true, and wow! Just. Wow. It went into effect this past June with a max set of 4 given names.
You *know* things must've gotten to a level of absolute ridiculousness when even the GOVERNMENT has to step in! 😅😂🤣
I don't have a double name, but my momma does call me Lily Kathryn when I'm in trouble. Unfortunately as a kid I was in trouble so much that lots of people THOUGHT I had a double name.
My mom did the same thing! I was always "Leslie Rae" when I was in trouble!
Yes, I would get so scared when I heard “Kennley Justina Marie!
I always thought my middle name was a double name but it’s just Justine. :P
@@TheOneAndOnlyAdakai What is Adakai Tekota?
My Mom's... You're too big for your britches, girl....angry name for girls was "Eloise Piffen-Poffer".
Or Queen of Sheba if you acted high & mighty, snobby.
There is so much wrong with the south. Honestly this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
"I tried going by JD, but I can't even skateboard."
I'm not sure why that made me laugh as hard as I did but dang that was funny
Right! It was all silent giggles for me until that one and I’m still laughing about it 😂
Me too because we call my nephew JD but it's for his first and last name, Justin Davis. But he's into football, baseball and basketball
I don't know either but that's the biggest laugh I got outta this entire video. I have no idea why, but it was SO funny!
Sorry, I thought it was stupid. Talk about stereotyping.
@@gayled3059 I mean that’s kind of the point of this entire channel though isn’t it? Making light of stereotypes and cultural tropes
“I actually go by ‘John’ now”
Lady: 😨
I cannot like this comment it’s at 420
Who goes by just "John?" That's unheard of.
@@MustyChalupa you can like it now, its past 1k now.
John Jacob Jingle Hymer Shmit? That's MY name TOO!
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Not Southern or even American but I love double names (without a hyphen 😂) and as a Nigerian with more names than letters in the alphabet I think the more the merrier 🤷🏾♀😂
Right up until you need to be registered with a login to an old system. Long names are NIGHTMARES when you have a 20 character limit.
This is quite amusing to me because I’m Australian & we do things the complete opposite.
Not only will we not use your full name, but we’ll shorten it as much as we can & probably give you a totally different nickname if we like you.
That’s Australian English in general, so I hear lol. Shorten all the words as much as possible 😆
@@ilicia_08
Yep we shorten most words lol 😂
They used to do that in the US as well. When I was a kid, everyone had a short nickname. I always felt the switch to more "official" nicknames was a little pretentious. It doesn't matter a lot, though - no matter what your parents want you to be called, your friends will eventually devise a nickname for you.
Same here in the Philippines. We have a lot of English/Anglo first names because of the huge American influence on culture here, but we can be so lazy that we'll shorten it to make it as monosyllabic as possible.
Andrea becomes Drea becomese Drei.
Colloquially, we just end up calling each other either 'girl' or 'boy' in our local dialectic versions because remembering names is honestly too exhausting in 2021 lol
i train with a girl called danielle but we shorten it to dave
My babies think they have double names, little do they know they’re just always up to no good and getting caught 😂
That's hilarious
My sister's name is pronounced like Lizzie nd my mom used to call her Mary Elizabeth when she was naughty hahahaha
My niece is always her first and middle name! Whether she's being super cute or super bad.
I’m southern and can some one explain this to me. I had no idea that people made fun of us because of double names. I thought every part of the country has this.
@@James-sm5vg probably mostly a southern thing, but not exclusively. My parents were merciful...because our last name is huge, all three kids have a short one syllable first name and no middle name. In school there was a Margaret Ann but I can't think of any others (west coast for reference)
In Finland you can have four names, and each can be a double name, but double names have to be hyphenated. A-B C-D E-F G-H, and then some have hyphenated last names, meaning ten names in total.
We number the names, and the one we go by is called kutsumanimi. Kutsuma, this form doesn't exist in English... in it's basic form it's kutsua=to call, nimi=name, so basically it translates to "the name one is called by".
With Finns I use my first name, but with everyone who doesn't speak Finnish, I either use my second or third, depending which is easier to pronounce. I also know many families that use the second name as the main name, and many who use different names with different people. So their childhood friends might call them by their second name, UNI friends by first and coworkers by third.
In all formal papers we have to write our whole name, then either underline, circle or write separately the name we are called by. The name you are called by doesn't have to be your official name, it can be shortened version, for instance Jonathan to John (not a Finnish name, but an example that is easy to understand).
The Finns are way ahead even in names
That is interesting! Appreciate you sharing it.
Wow that's amazing. Learned something new today. Thank you 😊
😳
German has a word for it as well: Rufname = "call name". And we also underline our Rufname but only if it's not the first name. I think legally we can have up to 6 or 5 names but the most I've ever seen are 3.
I love this 🙌🏻😂
As a Latina, we carry 2 last names and they are never hyphenated. We have a first name, middle name, paternal last name & maternal last name. When women get marry they don’t get their husbands last name,. So when a couple have kids, this kids carry both of their progenitors last names. Fist their dads and then theirs moms. Women count too you know 💁🏻♀️
So if mom and dad have two last names each, which of the four last names will the kids get?
Actually you can get your husband's name and still give your kids yours
I loved it when my Latino students explained. It makes perfect sense.
@@eugeniabarsukovaex: luis alvarez vega married maria lopez flores. Maria could change her last name to be alvarez lopez if she wanted. Their kids would have alvarez lopez as their last names.
@@elyssabarajas3554 or she could be maria lopez flores de alvarez (keeping her husbands paternal line but dropping the maternal)
"In some instances, such as high society meetings, the husband's surname can be added after the woman's surnames using the conjunction de (of). Thus Leocadia Blanco Álvarez, married to a Pedro Pérez Montilla, may be addressed as Leocadia Blanco de Pérez or as Leocadia Blanco Álvarez de Pérez. This format is not used in everyday settings and has no legal value (with the exception of Argentina and the Dominican Republic)."
Mary???? This just says Mary. Is that a typo?
Yes. Yes, it is a typo. 😂
😂😂😂
Yep, that was me throughout school...or "your parents should be ashamed of themselves for not giving you a middle name...mmmh hmmm" headshake of disapproval. Or once, "were your parents too busy or lazy to give you a middle name?" Now those were fighting words---kicked my cousin's butt---never liked her anyway...
I thought it was going to be Mary-Mary!
@@tuvelat7302 LOL!
I'm so southern even my CAT has a double name! It's Thelma Mae after my dear late aunt. (Oh yeah, that's another thing we do here- name our pets after dead relatives.)
I have a dog named Agnes
She's very tiny, she's a Chihuahua mix
Quite an uncommon name for a dog
My dogs name is Hershey Harry Hernandez lol
Ahahahaaa, mine does, too!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😅😅😅
@@geezeymlpandlps1312 My chihuahua are Maggie May and Flogging Molly Mae. 🤣😂
I have a cat named Little Bit (short for Little B!tch because she peed on everything the first week I had her).
When he roll calls " Mary Katherine" " Mary Elizabeth" I giggled. I had a friend in grade school named Mary Katherine Elizabeth. THREE NAMES, YA'LL!
My husband’s side does multiple middle names for their kids, most of which are family names. For example, his little sister is Mattie Johanna Rose Irene. His younger brother is Gabriel Emory Patrick Scott. Our older niece was named after her dad (his name is Michael, so they named her Michaelon Vivian Irene Faith. Michael + Lynn).
@@brittaniesidebottom this sounds great for when everyone wants to name the baby. We don’t even have a middle name where I live and when there is a new baby choosing one name can make some people upset.
Are the parents Jane Austen fans cuz it looks like they tryna fit a whole family in one name
I’m Kathryn Elizabeth 🤣
@@brittaniesidebottom Holy Cow! I would have to take a breath between the middle names!😂 Lord forbid they marry into a Latino Catholic family like my friend Mary Katherine Elizabeth did! Her husband came with FOUR LAST NAMES!
Love all the videos. I grew up in New England where I knew zero double named people, moved to the South, married a Southerner, and proudly gave my daughter a double first name.
"This just says 'Mary', is that a typo?" OMG 😂
Every time he said “Ann” my southern brain interpreted it as “and”. That’s the problem when a double name starts with “Ann”.
I thought the same thing had to go back and rewind it lol
I grew up Laura Ann Thornton. In first grade it took up the whole front side of a sheet of tablet paper!
aaaa so it’s Ann... i was like ”where’s the joke” with tht one 😅
Auto-captions interpreted it as "and" Was very confused for a moment before realizing he was saying "Ann". Lol
Thats how I feel when people say the word "actually" around me and I think their saying Ashleigh.
I have a friend named Hannah-Grace, so do avoid confusing her with the other Hannahs and "Blank-Grace"s we just call her Hyphen.
Not HG? 🤭
@@aiko9393 there might be another blank-grace that name starts with an h
The disrespect damn thats stone cold
Lmao
aw, my daughter's name is Hannah Grace (no hyphen, and she goes by Hannah) 😊
The funniest was the ER personnel telling the patient , she would have to "re-do" all her paperwork. That was so real it's hilarious. 🤣
...John Jacob Jinglehiemer-Schmidt, ...
Yes and you can’t forget the general from Seussical the musical
@@JAF1323 I'm not familiar with that name.
It’s somebody from a play.
That's my name too!!!
Ohhh yaaaa know it from the go fish guys 😁 wish I was still a child...
It’s surprising to know how two totally unrelated cultures from entirely opposite parts of the world have occasional similarities. I come from a state in Southern India and we have double names too. I have struggled my entire life trying to explain to people from my own country and in the US what they should call me. I gave up later and I’m currently going by the first half of my double name 😂. It’s relieving to see there are other people from a different country like me
We Sikh have the double name thing nailed har preet jas deep gur jeet Navdeep ... Hahaha
Don't hold it against them. They can not help it if they do not have a high enough intelligence to comprehend double names. It is too much for their brain to process. I am from South East Texas. A lot of us have the double names. Here in America they are quick to make fun of, and criticize Southerners. This is because we want freedom and deny socialism and/or big government. Now they can make fun of us, but God forbid should we make fun of them. Part of that double standard the Yankees (Northerners) love to practice. But I do not let it get me angry. I simply understand why they do what they do. They fear us Southerners because our religion gives us an inner strength, they do not possess, because they do not have religion. It is why they are trying to destroy religion. When they make fun of us, it is like the stupid kid that is always jealous of the smart kid. Once you understand this, you learn to just pity them, shake your head, say a little prayer for them and move on. There are a lot of low intelligent people out there that are always trying to bring down the rest of us. India: I love your architecture. You are a beautiful people with a rich heritage. Be proud.
@Wreck and Carey You know it baby!
@@icarusgotooclose And I expect you call me a jerk based on your own experience of being a jerk. It takes a Jerk to know a Jerk, yes?
Oh, same thing in Jamaica! Sara-Gay, Tomi-ann, Peter-gay. A friend and I were having a convo about what we'd want our names to be if it wasn't what we already have and I said Tony. He went "oh, like Tony-Ann?" And when I went "no, just tony" he was so baffled
I don't have a double name but I gave my late daughter a double middle name in honor of both her grandmothers. Her name is Kadance Ruth-Ann. She would've turned 18 this year ❤
I'm sorry for your loss. 💔
💔
Awww thank you for the love. It's been 18 years since I gave her back to Jesus ❤ I'm trying to make her a big sister it just hasn't happened yet. Praying it will soon though 💜💗
So sorry. Love the name & hope she’s a big sister very soon!❤️
Awww...so she passed away? RIP.
😂❤ It is our Southern Legacy to have double names. Especially here in Mississippi. 👋🤠🧔Cajun howdy
My mom didn't intend to give me a double name, but when we lived in Oklahoma, I became Laura Lou. My mom had a heck of a time trying to explain to my teachers that I'm just Laura. I spent a lot of years as Laura Lou. It never bugged me, but wow, did it drive my mom bats.
Cousin Mary Louise in Minnesota, has been "Weezie" for 80 years
I had a teacher give me the nickname Debbie Sue although I was just Debbie and my middle name was Lee. I loved it, and it made me feel special. I later learned her name was Debbie as well.
That's so cute that in your case it's the reverse of this video.
Same for me, lots of people called me Laura Beth when it was supposed to just be Laura, Beth was just a middle name! It drives me crazy to this day lol.
More interesting to me is the Southern, or maybe just Tennessean, practice of naming a child, say, Tanner Joseph, and calling him Austin ( for example).
This is beyond true in Kentucky too😂😂
My mother has never been called by her first name, since they brought her home from the hospital. I’ve worked in healthcare/medicine for a while and so many charts have things like John David “Carl” Smith. Like calling someone Butch or Missy or Buddy is one thing. Calling someone a whole other name though?!
I grew up in the midwest and northeast. When I attended university in Texas I became aware of that phenomenon! First day of classes doing role call, half the people went by totally different names. LOL
We do that here in Trinidad and Tobago too... we call it a “house name” or “home name”. Something to do with not wanting people to know our real names in case someone with “bad mind” wants to practice Obea (black magic) on us lol
My parents are Indian immigrants, and I always found it so weird that my mom, and all of her siblings, names that they go by are COMPLETELY unrelated to their actual names...people don't even know what my mom's real name is haha...the other day a friend tried to give my mom a check for something and she was shocked when my mom told her she couldn't cash it cuz it didn't have her real name...they've been friends for more than ten years 🤣🤣
My parents always told me it was just an Indian thing, so it's interesting to see that it's also an American southern thing lol
Growing up, the Catholic girls were Mary Pat, Mary Therese, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Catherine, Mary Kathleen, Mary Grace, Mary Colleen...and yes, they went by both names.
Yup. Mary Ellen, Mary Francis, Mary Rose, Mary Bernadette...
Don't forget Mary Ann
Mary-Lee
My cousin is Mary Helen. I was an adult before if dawned on me that they used her first and middle name because her Mom's name was Mary.
@@gracehaven5459 for the longest time growing up I had no idea if my grandmother's name Mary Ann, Mary middle name Ann, or Maryanne. Confused the heck out of me for years.
This is hilarious! I was asked once why I referred to my brother in laws by two names. Idk, because their mom did... lol
OMG I never even even noticed at 0:52 the lady in the car is more concerned about "Sarah" than the fact her kid flunked an assignment. I am dying over here!!!!
"I'm just so tired!" - I've totally been there with my double name. I've gotten to the point now I just respond to any variation of my name.
same!!!!
My mom's name was Virginia, she answered to any variation of it, Ginny, etc. Me I was a stickler for answering to my name and would correct people all the time. Then I just stopped and answered to any variation of Anne, Annie, whatever.
While I don't have a double name, my given name is a nickname. I now prefer to be called just the one name, the nickname (without my "slave" last name, aka my married last name---most people butcher its pronunciation anyway). The biggest thing is: just call me for supper!!
Me too. I even get called Marybeth or Elizabeth.
If someone calls me Lee I won't even notice they're referring to me its so bad
My mother was "Betty June". The older she got, the more surly she was when people called her "Betty". By 93, she would have a full out hissy fit if you addressed her as anything but Betty June. I made sure the obituary didn't just start with Betty June but then referred to her as Betty June the rest of the time. Didn't need the feeling she was growling at me from Above...
I have twin aunts called Betty June and Betty May their entire lives. Their actual names were Elizabeth Magdalene and Magdalene Elizabeth.
Hissy fit, if that's not a southern phrase 😄
I think it's sweet and wonderful that you made sure they referred to her correctly the whole time in her obituary since you knew it meant so much to her that people got it right. June is a beautiful name so if that was part of my name, I would make sure people remembered it too!
@@kellyriddell5014 I also made she went with a Kleenex in her pocket, because she was never without one..... 😄
My great aunt was named Betty Jean and that just reminded me of her
My 20 year southern BFF has a double name that, as a northerner, I never got the hang of. Now it's just become a thing for us that I am the only one allowed to single name her as a badge of solidarity between us. That said, this video makes me feel really stonking bad that I never got the hang of it in the first place and that it ever came to that.
Cecilia Ann gave birth to Cathy Ann, Mary Jo, Patty Lynn, and Kelly Suzanne. Cathy Ann had Brandon Mitchell and Corey James while Patty Lynn had Lee Ann Marie. Now Cathy Ann, Mary Jo, Patty Lynn, and Kelly Suzanne had five cousins: Sara Jo, Cindy Lee, Sally Anne, Jennifer Lee and Heather Dawn. The cousins' Momma was Suzi Q and Linda Lee. The three sister's Momma was Jessie. Bless my Gramma's Heart.
This sounds like an SAT math problem :P
@@florindalucero3236 like "What's the father's name?"
There ya go!
Lord have mercy 😂
@@StormCrusher94 Harold Lee
It’s the same names recycled over and over. The double names are necessary.
Maybe just branch out a little.
When every southern woman is name Ann(e), Grace, Mary, or Elizabeth the extra name is necessary
@@icegoddess1308 lol. My friend has a child named Anna Grace.
For real, my mom and her best friend as kids were Cindy Locke and Cindy Lou [Who] and with three other girls with the same first name as me in any given class or job site, I also answer to "hey you".
@@icegoddess1308
And then there’s poor souls like me: Grace-Marie Elizabeth
Heaven help me, I don’t even live in the South!
One of these moments when you think "how did I get here?!" -- so, I'm German, and we do have double names, but if people go by them they're usually written in one word (we have a thing where we write two words as one, don't ask, it's weird) like Annabella, Heidemarie or Marianne. Now, that I think about it, these kinds of names are actually quite common. They aren't regarded as two names though, but as one. Hyphenated names are also possible but regarded as lower class, as tacky. Names like Sarah-Michelle for example (sorry to every Sarah-Michelle, I know you're a great person).
I didn't know double names were a common thing in the South of the US. I strangely feel more educated now, thank you.
I have only one name by the way. It sucks. I wish I had more.
That's right. Annelore, Hermann-Josef, Franz-Josef, Klaus-Dieter. The list goes on. We actually call Klaus-Dieter, or whatever it is by their full names. I myself only have one name and people shorten it to: Gab, Gabbi, Gabs.
In Italy middle names are very uncommon and nobody wants to be called both names anyway lol. We do have names that are technically two names but they're regarded as one and they can be written as a single word or two words (such as Gianmarco or Pierluigi).
Then we also have a lot of women of the older generation who are called Maria something (Maria Vittoria, Maria Rosa, Maria Grazia). They usually go by their 'second' name or they use both.
I do have one :-)
I've never heard of hyphenated names being "lower class" but then I also just know people with hyphenated names like Anna-Lena which can be just a normal name.
Most people I know (me too) have a middle name but its like a "secret" name? like nobody knows it exists and half of the time we forget that we have a middle name because we only write it if the have to write the whole name as it is on our passport.
Mandarina is a pretty cool and delicious name though 😉
Now we can start our lessons @the buzzer. Man, I was in stitches 😂😂😂
By high school, those teachers are either just calling last names or telling you to check yourself in on the list by the door lmao
True
Not in my high school
My real name is William Joseph James Robert Johnson. Most people call me Billy Joe Jim Bob for short. My Yankee friends call me Bob.
Where does your name end and middle name begin? How are people suppose to know which names are your first names? Very curious.
That's funny! True or not, that's funny!
Reminds me of my nephew’s long name. His full name is Elijah Jerry Jay James Decker. He goes by Eli.
Ha! 🤣 that’s like a tongue twister!
okay so william is your first name? joseph your first middle name, james the second and robert the third? johnson is your last name. at least that's how it works in germany 😂
My friend's name is Virginiagrace. She also has a middle name and a hard to pronounce last name. Her last name is not the same as her parents, rather a family name. Her parents both had the same last name before marriage and her middle name is their last name. (like, if their last name was Jamison, her name would be Virginiagrace Jamison Lastname). Her parents and brother all kept the original last name though, so she has a different last name than her entire family, making everything seem more confusing than it is.
We just call her Grace :)
"The parents had the same last name before marriage" and that explains sooooo much.
@puppiesrule nah, just a common last name 😆
How's that possible? I thought there was some kind of law or rule that made the kids' surname the same as their parents' surname
@@s_quasimodo I don't really know how. That's just how it is!
That just sounds like her real dad is someone else..or she was adopted and they chose to keep her original last name. For what reason would you give your child an unrelated last name?
3:14 Me as someone who has to process user records. "I don't care what your name is BUT it needs to be: FirstName, LastName, A-Z characters only, no hyphens, no spaces, and used consistently across all records. Plan accordingly"
Lol I dropped my double name when I was like 8 and I think my mom still hasn’t forgiven me for it 😂
Could I ask your name to see if I agree with mom?😂
Me too! Sue (formerly Sue Anne)
@@suedorroh1566 i applaud you
@@suedorroh1566 and now its sue dorroh?
I dropped mine too! My dad is more disappointed than my mom.
My grandma would get so irritated when people would call her "Margaret" instead of "Margaret Ann" 😂
That’s my grandmas name also!!’
@Allison Gargiulo lol people are funny and fun
My great grandmother was an Anna-Elizabeth and she got irritated if anyone tried calling her anything else for short lol. As compared to my younger sister who is an Anna-Michelle and she exclusively goes by Anna besides legal paperwork
@Storm Arashi omgoodness, did she get her last rites? 😳 I'm a nurse and I always try to get what the patient goes by for names in case family calls or if the patient prefers me to call them by something specific.
@Storm Arashi that's great and I'm glad you guys can laugh about the incident with the name after the fact.
Don't have a double name but I do have a double surname. It's the norm in Portuguese and Hispanic tradition
Im lisa ann cofreros Wilson
Right? And if anybody in adulthood should make the mistake of saying your total entire name, you get flashbacks to being in the deepest shit as a kid :P :D
Triple name and double surname because, you know, Mexico! Oh! And whole my life I only used my third name but now I live in the States and only use my first name because is easiest and I am married so basically I have a name that I use in Mexico and other for the States.
I feel your pain.
@@migueldelmazo5244 my parents are foreigners
My favorite things about the double names is it tell me who’s known my family longest. People where my mother is from will call me by my first and middle even though I don’t have a double name. Same for my sister and father. People basically everywhere else don’t use my mother’s second name and at first she tried to tell them different, but she gave up a while ago. So now I know who all the old family friends are based on how they start a conversation with mother dearest.
When he got to the Marys he forgot Sister Mary Clarence.
I was waiting for Mary Ann and Ann Marie
Don’t forget Sister Mary Elephant
@@kayeb7809 it’s from sister act....
And Mary Robert, Mary Patrick, I forget the rest of the Mary nuns
@@kittyelf1485 Alma... Lazarus...
As a former database manager, I giggled way too hard at this.
You know you’re no longer a database manager when this is funny and not horrific.
@@cmyk8964 I'm a software developer laughed way more at this then I should've 🤣
Also worse if you have the W^ character in your name which isnt supported by unicode
@@Stettafire You sure about that? ŵ
One of my friends favourite tests on databases is "De'ath" because, some databases cannot handle the ' (I spent 2 years as a database tester)
A long name with a space in it is fine. The real problem is when you get into things like "I only have one name" or "I have two completely different personal names and which one I use depends on the language it's being used in.", "My name can be written in any of three different writing systems, including two that are phonetic and one that's logographic", "I don't have a surname, I have a patronymic, which is NOT a surname and should NOT be used as a surname under any circumstances", "The order that my name is said/written depends on which language you're speaking and I'll re-arrange your name and/or transpose it between writing systems to match my language's depending on whether you did the same to mine, unless you speak English.", "My surname has a prefix that should not be treated as part of the surname when sorting." "But my surname has a prefix that DOES affect how the name is sorted.", "I have a first name, a patronymic, and a surname, but the patronymic is not a middle name and should not be used as one", "I not only have a double personal name, but also two surnames either one of which can be doubled up using a hyphen." , and "I have the misfortune of being Elon Musk's son"
Thank goodness I'm from the north where there's still daylight after we introduce ourselves.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm from the north and I'd be careful before measuring time with "daylight", lol. I'm pretty sure in another month or so the sun's going to be setting for the day before it even comes up!
@@sarahdangelo3168 I'm from the North too and seasonal depression is kicking in . . . people from the South please send sunlight we're freezing up here
LOL You win hands down! That's the best one yet!😊😊😊
@@sjfrench8034 sending you sunbeams😊
I worked in education for years, and this is very true! BTW , you should do a show the WEIRD names people come up with.
My sister, god bless her, planned on naming her daughter "Darla Lee-Dawn Douell". Thankfully, she only had boys, and spared a child from being cursed with such a stupid name. XD
Thats the most southern name ever
Mine was going to be Minnesota Joseph but thank Jesus the nurse gave the paperwork to my dad instead
Good Lord have mercy.
@@HosCreates
Not sure about that. I knew a woman who wanted to name her son "Corey Lee".
I kinda love it tho
I’m not southern but my Grandmother from Missouri was Mary-Lee and she insisted that one of her granddaughters have a “Mary” name and my mother named me Maribeth. She chose to change the spelling and not hyphenate it. So I get the video a lot, I’ve had so much more difficulty with my name especially in school. And then to top it off I married my husband who has a hyphenated last name so, I’m just used to have to put a little more explanation into having people understand my name. ☺️
I think having long names is cool. I don’t have one myself, but I feel like if I did I’d announce it all the time like I was royalty
Your name could be pronounced without the hard E sound of Mary and no one would question it
I have a niece named after her grandmother MariLou. Her name is Maribeth, also.
So what would you name a child?
My mom named me and my siblings after saints and my sister is Marianna (for the same reason of not wanting a hyphen) but my brother and I joke that she is so perfect she got named after two saints😂
I know a double namer, Daisy-Alexandra. She goes by Daisy only because when got tired of explaining it to people. I knew her for a full year before I knew her name was Daisy-Alexandra.
This video spoke to my soul.
What I don't understand is how people are confused by a double name. Literally just what? I'm not even from the south, I'm in canada.... why are people so dumb to need to have a name explained to them solely because it's longer than they're used to?
We had a florist's shop downtown that was named after the owner: Jimmy Sue!
My grandson has a hyphenated first name. Two middle names. And a hyphenated last name. Bless his heart.
Bless his heart!!!😳
Bless his heart!!!😳
Bless his heart
Bless his heart!
The babies are so darn beautiful it's hard to choose the name!
The worst is when they have double names and you still cannot figure out if it’s a boy or girl.
No, the worst is when the census lists your great AUNT as a boy. Because her first name was Willie.
@@lyllydd I used to know a lady named Russel. I wonder if they’re related...
My great grandmother was named after her father and often gets "Mr"d in paperwork even though her middle name is Marie... I guess after you've had 11 boys and girls, you can't be bothered to strictly gender the 12th.
@@ThinWhiteAxe Russel’s family had a patriarch who declared that the next child born would be named after him, and so she was!
🤣😅😅🤣Bobbi Lee😂😂
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Wait, wait, if they have a double name, how do they know when they are in trouble?
Cause they usually have a middle name too or, like my mama did, she called you by ALL your names!
The middle name comes out too.
At least in my family it depended on the level of anger - name = irked. Name + middle name = mad. Name + middle name + last name = you better have a last will and testament.
My people call me by a pet name. It means no trouble.
If they call my first name or double name, there's some trouble but mostly mild
Full name means death 🙃
My son doesn't have a middle name and when he's in trouble, first and last name 🤣
I'm glad they included a few male examples as an Alabamian with a double name Tristan-Blaine this was very relatable, I have dropped Blaine in most settings but my family won't acknowledge that lmao
"This just says Mary, is that a typo?" I FEEL SO SEEN
This is so funny yall, been watching for 3 or so years, and yall have never failed to make me laugh!
I have a Trevor-Emily in my Botany class. That confused me so bad.
🤔
Soooo... You're just gonna leave us hanging? 🤣
Well I thought she was married or something and shared a Zoom account with her husband or something. It’s an online class, so I’ve never actually met these people in person.
Sounds like each parent wanted a baby of the opposite sex and refused to compromise on a name.
@@Editorknowsbest that's what I was confused about.. was it a male or female.
As someone with a Paul Don in the family, this video hits home.
Can we talk about last names as first names? My dad's first name is Briggs.
Why is this a thing in America? It’s really confusing.
@@Nadia-ox1kf often it is the child's mother's maiden name or a grandmother's. Sometimes its out of respect for someone they admire.
I think my dad said he was named after a friend of his parents, but not why or if Briggs was the guy's first or last name.
@@Nadia-ox1kf I didnt know it was a last name until I saw it as a brand name of a toilet and I asked why my dad wrote his name on our potty.
I know a girl from Alabama who named her son South. A pair of Alabama UA-camrs I watch (Cullen and Katie) named their daughter Macey Gaines and their son Brooks Walker. She goes by Macey Gaines or Gaines (never just Macey) and Brooks goes by Brooks. It’s my understanding Gaines’ name came from Cullen’s side (his grandma’s maiden name) and Walker is Katie’s maiden name. I could be remembering wrong though. And another couple I watch on a TLC show called Sweet Home Sextuplets have 9 kids and are also from Alabama. Their 6 boys are Blu Wellington, Tag Brickers, Layke Bryars, Saylor Briggs, Bridge Ryder, Wales Tucker. Their 3 girls are Rivers McCall, Rayne McCoy, and Rawlings McClaine. I’m not sure the story behind their names though. Saylor is the oldest and a singleton, Bridge and Wales are next and are twins, and Blu, Tag, Layke, Rivers, Rawlings, and Rayne are sextuplets.
@@AnadyiaHowell 😂
This is what I needed i just got through playing a really rough flag football game we got zero points and it was raining thanks so much for the laugh it really helped to cheer me up love yalls videos
The whole time my brain was saying "Lara Jean; Lara Jean; Lara Jean"
Double names always make me think of WillowDean from the Netflix Original movie Dumplin
@@bellak46 omgggg i fell in love with the name Willow Dean from that movie! so pretty
Pronunciation: lara jean, lara john,
and lara jane
Barbara Jean
Hello! A Slavic girl here. I have a patronym (father's name), but none of those double names, or middle name you guys have. Am I right that all these TJ, PJ, CJ are just initials of southern people who were struggling from people in other parts of the USA can't process their double name? When I first learned that a person may be almost officially called with just 2 letters I was astonished.
For some folks, the initials do represent a double name. But for some folks, the initials were always what their parents chose and planned to call them, while for others, they used either just their first name or just their middle name and later decided they wanted the initials. Often in that latter case, it's that the single name they were going by is hard to spell, hard to pronounce, or just sticks out in a situation where they want to blend in. Lastly, some people who use initials for their written name use a single name in person; for example, my grandpa here in Texas always wrote and signed his name T.P. _____ [surname], though everyone called him by his first name, Truman.
But yes, some people who go by initials _are_ shortening a double name.
“Don’t you think that’s a bit long for a four year old to write?”
Me with an 11 letter last name: ._.
EDIT: My last name ain't 'Productions', y'all...
My first name has 9 letters lol
21 letter. For you beat
I had 8 letters in my first name, 14 letters in my last name, a 5 letter middle name and I chose Elizabeth for my confirmation name. Most of my adult life I've just gone by Amy because my married name starts with Y so my initials are A.M.Y. Screw all that alphabet soup.
@@PaxPixie that's a good solution 😅
My last name is twelve letters lol...the full thing is 26 😅
The funniest thing is when you have someone like 'mary-elizabeth' who just goes by 'mary-beth.' Like. Picking and choosing what abbreviations are acceptable are can be amusing...
Brilliant! That's a thing you've probably inherited from Northern Ireland. It used to be common in country parts. Less so now.
I wondered about that!
It's because Southerner's are usually named in honor of a family member or a close family friend. The second name is to keep everyone else from all answering at once. 😁
I don't have an official double name on my birth certificate, but my mom's been adding -lou on for so long I used to think it was! Emmylou like the singer.
You know you can get that fixed, right?
@@Elistarielle Noooo!!! Emmylou is an awesome name! Emmylou Harris is a AMAZING singer.
I saw Emmylou and immediately thought George Strait lyrics lol
Ok, so we add Lou on to so many names around here that we've even added to our kitty.
My Aunt called me Amy Lou Who, I just hated it Just Amy please, they should do a video on the different spelling of name's, that could go on for day's 😉
My daughter has one first name, two middle names and two last names hyphenated. She was so happy to get married and get one last name. 😂😂
“I tried to go by JD, but I can’t even skateboard.”
Good on ya UA-cam algorithm for sneaking in this gem of a video.
Oh, reminds me of double names here in Quebec.
We got Jean-François, Marie-Claude, Marie-Inès, Marie-Pierre, Julie-Pierre…
Marie-Pierre (Mary-Peter) is a girl, but Pierre-Mary (Peter-Mary) is a boy, because the man name is before the woman name.
Usually, girl double names eventually become single names, like Marianne, Mariève (Mary-eve), etc.
Marie is a popular middle name here in the South. I’m Denise Marie, but I have no French heritage.
In Germany, "Maria" was often used by Catholics for a boy's middle name. You may have heard of the actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, the writer Erich Maria Remarque, or the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
"Well my name's John-Lee Pettimore.. Same's my daddy, and his daddy before.."
@Elizabeth Harper Nope - John-Lee said it the right way ! I have a "Deep Southern" grandson. When he was young and came to Ohio he needed a translator in public. We needed to have a few days of "talking" lessons with the cousins, every visit. Now- as an adult, he takes a day to acclimatize himself.
"Mary... Is that a typo?" LOLOL!!!
so I guess naming my son Riley-Montgomery is out the question?
A 16 letter name? No. I'm sorry, but no.
My cousin name is Rylee Rileigh Riley . No joke.
@@CDRiley Haha now all you need is reiley
That is like just naming your kid after a governor and the capital at the same time like a term in office.
I love that name
Thanks!