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Recent Examples of middle name
Peter, Paul and Mary — Stookey performed under his more biblical middle name — hit America’s cultural sweet spot in the early 1960s.
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Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Peak Popularity: The baby's middle name has been more popular, appearing on the top baby girl names list in most years between 1908 to 1996.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 7 Jan. 2025
RuPaul loves that her middle name is Butthole, so that’s good for her.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
By Alyssa Hardy December 21, 2024 Lindy McDonough started her brand, Lindquist (the full version of her Swedish middle name), with a rule about glue.
—Alyssa Hardy, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2024
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Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Peak Popularity: The baby's middle name has been more popular, appearing on the top baby girl names list in most years between 1908 to 1996.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 7 Jan. 2025
RuPaul loves that her middle name is Butthole, so that’s good for her.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
By Alyssa Hardy December 21, 2024 Lindy McDonough started her brand, Lindquist (the full version of her Swedish middle name), with a rule about glue.
—Alyssa Hardy, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle name
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The final stage of the attack asks the user to provide details to their payment card as well as date of birth, Social Security number, mother's maiden name, and driver's license number.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
7 Nov. 2024
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Christina has also filed to legally retake her maiden name.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
16 July 2024
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Posada recently got a tattoo featuring his family name in script and wrapped in a bed of olive leaves.—
Kevin J. Farmer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Next is the Aorus Elite 16, another laptop with a family name derived from Gigabyte’s motherboard offerings.—
& Matthew Buzzi,
PCMAG,
12 Jan. 2025
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For privacy reasons, Patricia asked ABC News to be referred by her first name only.—
Stephanie Mendez,
ABC News,
18 Jan. 2025
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Fear of the Taliban is only one of the reasons the first names of his parents and siblings are not in this article.—
Jazzmin Jiwa,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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Until last year, John Henry Newman, as he is known by his baptismal name, was studying to become a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary in Yangon.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2022
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She was given the name Sister Seraphia and later returned to her baptismal name, Carol Estelle.—
Jacques Kelly,
baltimoresun.com,
22 May 2021
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The attack likely starts with either a phishing email link or attachment, although the researchers were unable to obtain the original email the nomenclature used in the filenames suggested income tax deduction and rebates as the bait.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
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Consider the teenager’s nomenclature for an erect pecker.—
Matthew J. C. Clark,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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“Middle name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20name. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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