my daughter Jane Amy is in a similar dilemma. Her first name is Jane, , her middle name is Amy. THe idea was that she be known as Jamie. but from the first day she was born, she was known as Jane Amy, and the contraction to Jamie never happend. She sometimes has problems with officialdom, who want to put in a hyphen but she insists on the full name Jane Amy, no contractions, no nicknames. She also has a hebrew name, Na'ava, and if prressed to produce a middlename, will use that. But it does not appear on her american birth certificate., hilary blue ps she is 17 and therefore cares very much!!! Jo Ann Coen wrote: > > Barb - It's so funny you wrote about Goofy's middle name. Do you know I > was 35 years old before I realized I didn't have a middle name? I had to > get my birth certificate for a legal matter and lo and behold, it had Jo > Ann Sullivan. I asked my mom and she said I didn't need a middle name, > because she didn't have one. For years, I thought my parents didn't love > me enough to give me a middle name. Now at my age, who cares? Jo Ann > from Houston