In France, most people have ''two'' middle names, which halves the chance of ''not'' having at least one embarrassing one. Fortunately they almost only appear on state I.D. cards and Tax receipts.

This troper's middle names are his grandfathers' first names (a quite common practice), so while not ridiculous, they sound a bit archaïc.

Mine too. Also one means something in english to a degree that it has to come second or it implies a condition to the other.

This troper doesn't have a middle name, something she's eternally grateful for, especially after learning her mother's middle names. Archaic doesn't even begin to describe it.

Actually, French middle names are most of the time the names of grandparents or other older relatives, so archaism is more or less a given. This drive-by editor deems herself very lucky she ended up with Marie, probably the one name never to have gone out of fashion in two thousand years.

This Troper is German but got named after the French tradition due to a francophile mother. Both middle names are embarrassing as hell, but the second one is worse - Clothilde. Klo, in German, means toilet... you figure out why she never mentioned the name to anyone until she was well over 20. Incidentally, her first middle name is a name which DOESN'T EXIST - her mother took her grandfather's francophone name and "feminized" it in a way not usually done.

This Tropette's middle names are named after her grandfathers. One of them is a girlier version the other one...not so much.

This troper was friends once with a boy who's middlename was ''Virginia''. Also given the fact his last name was Carson and he lived in ''Carson City'' he equally hated his last name. At least his first name, Zachariah, while archaic, could be spun into a normal name. Poor guy just had an overall horrible name. (According to him.)

This troper had moved to a new school, and immediately got ridiculed for having the middle name "Nadine". It turns out they had a horrible, cruel, and awkward teacher with the first name Nadine. After half of the year, my new best friend heard what was going on and declared war on anyone who called me like that when she was near. This turned into her developing a berserk button over it. I thought it was just because I was her friend, but it turns out that she had a very close aunt with the name Nadine, that had passed away. Were still very close.

It seems that "J" names ("James," "Jacob," "Jean," and "Jane," for example) are getting more and more common to use as a middle name, and there are a lot of J initials (RJ, TJ, CJ, DJ, etc.) This isn't really a problem unless you give the child a first name beginning with B (and think of how many common names there are that begin with B- Brian, Brad, Brandon, Brittany, Brooke- just to name a few) This turns their initials into a very vulgar slang term. Add to that the fact that This Troper has a last name that begins with S, which just adds the effect of pluralizing it.

A friend of this tropers mother has a name that used to mean 'beautiful woman'. Unfortunately, through linguistic evolution it ended up meaning 'whore' in modern speech, to the point that she no longer uses it.

This troper's grandfather had his mother's maiden name as his middle name: Woodhouse.

This troper knows of a couple where the gentleman’s name is Grieve and the lady’s name is Whalen. She has expressed a desire to hyphenate at some point. We’re waiting with bated breath to see Whalen-Grieve on the back of her jersey.

In a similar vein, this troper knew a couple whose surnames were ''Wright'' and ''Pratt''.

This troper's mother once had a married name that gave her the highly embarrassing initials of APE. She (understandably) used to hate having anything monogrammed.

This Troper is fine in having a hyphenated last name that reminds folks of the band "White Zombie". Now, if she could convince the in-laws to respect and actually USE it...

This troper, she knew someone's mother (spelling changed to protect the innocent); she married into the Cane family, her full name becoming Penny Candy Cane.

Wait, her parents named her Penny Candy?

Candy Cane?

This troper knows someone who married into the Christmas family, and now goes by (first name removed) Merry Christmas.

So, that person decided to Marry Christmas?

This troper's middle name is Hannah, which compared to her first name is pretty tame.

7}} This Troper is named for his two grandfathers- Daniel on his mother's side and Carey (for his grandfather's middle name) on his father's. He's just glad that they decided not to saddle him with his Grandfather's first name. Hallam isn't exaclty common these days.

This troper's middle name is "Valentin", which leads to some rather obvious and embarassing punnery.

This troper's middle name is not embarrassing because it's funny; it's actually pretty normal, if a bit old-fashioned. She just loathes it. (Mainly because it looks dumb written down.)

This troper went to middle school and high school with a girl whose middle name was Sweetin. Were her parents major ''Full House'' fans?

Said troper also used to baby-sit three kids (two boys and one girl) who all had the middle name Warren.

This Troper has the middle name of Constantine. It's not that I'm embarresed by the name, it's that I have trouble living up to it.

Troper's middle name is Kane. This troper is ''female''. Subverted in that she doesn't find it particularly embarassing, though.

This troper knew someone from high school whose last name was Dohnt. Basically, we assumed that using the FullNameUltimatum against him would be, well, worse.

In a strange shift, this troper is just fine with his middle name. But his father hates it, because said troper's middle name is the father's first name. And his father always hated that name. While the troper in question doesn't mind his name at all, he still doesn't understand why his father gave him a name that his father found embarassing.

On the flip side, his mother was given a name that meant "beautiful and happy." Unfortunately, the middle name, "Gay", is used much differently today.

I don't mind my middle name, but I never advertised it in high school due to having the initials E.T. I had more than enough dealing with Extra-Terrestrial jokes and didn't want to add Christmas jokes onto the pile.

This Troper has the given name of Timothy Allen Bell, but generally goes by Tim. Heaven help anyone that combines the two...

First troper again. We had no problems naming our son when he was born, simply taking the two unused names from his grandfathers (one grandfather uses his middle name as his public name). After many years of conversation, we still haven't come up with a girl's name we like. If we attempted to pull the same naming trick, the poor girl would be Sue Lou (Sulu). Even worse is that her initials would SLT, and there is no way my girl is going to be nicknamed 'Slut'.

Morton. I don't know what's so wrong with it, other than if you remove the T, but people love snickering at it for some reason.

They probably think it's an geezer name.

This troper is somewhat embarassed by his middle name. The K stands for Kristian. He also hates his last name because nobody seems to be able to write, let alone pronounce, it correctly. It has two different letters! Surely it can't be that hard!

This troper dated a guy whose middle named was Pleasance. He kept insisting he liked it, but finally his sister snickered at it and he just ''snapped''.

This troper's mother not only give her a first name that needs at least two spellings before people begins to catch it, she topped it by "honoring" one of her favorite artists by giving the troper the middle name of "Daly". With ''that'' spelling. Her mother blames the lady in the register. Interestingly, the paternal side had the habit of calling people by the middle names since they used the first name slot for the embarrassing ones, but since this troper and her sister middle names are ''more'' embarrassing than their already awkward and similarly sounding first names they are even denied that relief.

This troper's grandmother is German and gave her two youngest daughters names from Wagner's opera. This troper's aunt has the middle name Seiglinde, which isn't so bad, but her younger sister's (my mom's) middle name is ''Brunhilde''. This troper's mother HATES it.

Friend of mine has the highly unfortunate initials of STD.

This troper's names (Clifford John Leslie) are from his great-grandfather, grandfather, and other grandfather, respectively. However, his parents decided when he was very young to call him by the second of his three personal names (instead of the more common calling someone by their first given name). Needless to say this has caused much confusion. Not only are his friends always surprised to find out, but it means that whenever he is required to put his full legal name on an application or form there's an inevitable "Clifford Rodger?" followed by a long pause before he realises it's referring to him. It's not so much that the name is embarrassing, but that it's one he consistently fails to associate himself with.

This troper's middle name isn't embarrassing--just inconvenient. Her middle name is "Dee," an inheritance from her grandmother that's pronounced exactly like it looks. ''Everyone'' she ''ever'' mentions this fact to, including officials of some variety, then say some variant of: "No, no. Your ''full'' middle name." ARRRRRG. Funnily enough, her mother (the one from whose mother she inherited the name) has the middle name of Kay. You'd think she'd had enough problems herself...

This troper's middle name is Kay. She understands exactly what you're describing.

This troper's middle name isn't embarrassing (it's Justin) noooooo, this troper has a far WORSE fate. My last name is Hornemann, and it's pronounced incorrectly by everyone who hasn't heard me pronounce it before. And no it's not an especially {{Meaningful Name}}.

I also went to school with a guy whose last name was Gaylord.

And then there was poor, poor Mr. Queer.

This troper's actually seen Gaylord used as a first name in movies twice, pronounced something like "GAY-lehrd".

Gaylord Perry played major-league baseball with various teams for twenty years.

This troper went to school with someone whose surname was pronounced Manmeat. Poor guy.

This troper knew a guy who's surname was Rider, which wouldn't be that bad if he didn't go by Dick.

This troper's middle name is Blue. Yes, the color. No, my parents are not hippies.

Oh my god. This troper's middle names are Blue Sky, and she always, always gets asked on mentioning it whether her mother was a hippy. (She was a biker). She now uses 'Miss Bluesky' as her username on most sites. It doesn't help that her first name is also something quite girly ('Amelia').

I like the name Blue.

This Davinston Montgomery Troper.

This troper has four names, the last two of which are Cordingley Crisp. Cordingley is the surname of his mother, Crisp his father (they're married, she just didn't change her last name for reasons of practicality). The ''number'' of people who thought Cordingley was his middle name that his parents had just conjured out of thin air...

When this troper name is spelled, it sounds like a character from some hispanic soap opera...

This troper had three middle names as a child - as the third middle name was her mother's maiden name, she dropped it along with her own upon marriage. Usually she used the middle middle name as her middle name/initial - though now that she has only two middle names, she uses the first one instead. Unfortunately, troperette has an embarrassing ''first'' name that remains unchanged only by virtue of not having come up with something to replace it with yet. It's unnicknamable, and she can't go by either of her middle names (Harriet and Mercedes, both quite lovely, really), because they're the names of her grandmothers - and choosing one would be tantamount to choosing one grandma over the other. Dammit.

This troper's ''last'' name is the problem, as he has yet to meet a person in his eighteen years of existance that pronounced it correctly on the first try, and only one who bothered to remember how to properly say it when this troper corrected him (for the record, this troper's last name is Brokos, pronounced BRO-kiss, ''not'' bro-KOSE). His middle name is actually something of a noble tradition: his maternal grandfather never had any sons, so this troper and his siblings all have the middle name Blake to honor him.

This troper knows how you feel about everyone mispronouncing your surname: his is Dylak. Anyone who correctly read that as dill-ack, and not die-lack is either one of his relatives or an IRL friend. On a related note, anyone who thinks he's missing a 'c' is an idiot for thinking he doesn't know how to spell his own name correctly.

Why wouldn't you initially assume it wasn't dill-ack? It is one letter away from Dylan, and nobody calls him Bob Die-lann...

You'd be surprised how many people don't notice that fact.

This troper's last name is Bolland. Unfortunately, people believe otherwise and pronounce it as BO-land. Cue "Boland-Ball" jokes IT'S HOLLAND WITH A GODDAMND B INSTEAD OF AN H.I also dislike my middle name, though not embarrassing, because it's my granddad's name.I hated my granddad.It's Robert BTW.Anyone who saw me and reads "Oor Wullie" comics will see the joke.

This Troper has the same problem, having the last name Coughlin. It's pronounced "COG-lin", not "COUGH-lin." Every time I'm on radio or TV for something-or-other, the announcer pronounces it incorrectly. I had a maths teacher who pronounced it wrongly the ENTIRE YEAR. My middle name's quite nice, though. It's Katherine.

When this troper discovered the embarassing middle names of one of his classmates, said classmate pinned him to a wall and told him never to tell anybody. Tarquin

This troper knows a girl whose middle name is "Murphy". Her father calls her "Murph".

This troper's boyfriend knows a girl whose name is Candy, who married a man with the surname Cane... and as if this weren't enough, the couple moved into a house on Sugartown Lane. They are rarely able to acquire magazine subscriptions.

Because we can never have enough Truth in TV, my younger brother was nearly given the middle name of Down. Granted, this is unusual, but not terribly embarrassing. However, when this is combined with his first name of Markham, and his last name of Price, Mark Down Price becomes eminently mockable.

This troper's friend has the very unfortunate name of Adam Isaac David Seabury. (He has, however, saved himself from any nasty jokes by simply neglecting to tell pretty much anyone his full name.)

This Troper's name is Robert Joseph. My mother is from the South. Do the math.

While this troper doesn't find her middle name (Claire) particularly embarrassing (she finds it pretty, and it allows her to have her first two initials as JC), she gets somewhat embarrassed/self-conscious when people find out about it and seem amazed she has such a nice middle name...she hates being teased. Just for the record, she was named for her father's best friend growing up, or something like that.

Her brother, on the other hand, revels in his middle name (Aime), as it means love in French...so he can officially, truthfully say "my middle name is love!" (Yes, he knows it's cheesy, and yes he's a dork; he doesn't care). It was our paternal grandfather's name, who neither of us got to meet as he died when our father was in his teens.

My brother-in-law's middle name is Eugene. He refuses to admit it, so I helpfully fill people in whenever the subject comes up.

Yeah, same here for me. I never used to mind when I was younger, but now I can't help but cringe when I hear it. The Eugene from HeyArnold doesn't help.

The above troper sounds EXACTLY like me.

High school friend's middle name is Wonderland. Yes, her first name is Alysin. Cruel hippy parents.

This troper's middle name is Bennett. That's a frickin' LAST name! (Though according to this...I could have copped Benedict (hopefully not as in ''that'' Benedict) as an embarrassing middle name, but "Bennett" is IMO a bit odd...vaguely culturally suave in the right company, but to most it [[{{MistakenForGay}} sounds a bit fruity...

X}} This troper knows someone whose initals spelled out A.S.S. Damned parents.

This troper's middle name is Danielle. This is a perfectly good female name. Unfortunately, primary school kids don't know this, and I was "Daniel" for several years. It didn't help that I was named for my grandfather, who ''is'' Daniel.

This troper's brother's middle name is Sheldon. For some reason no one under the age of forty can avoid snickering when they find this out.

Tell him he need not worry. It's getting cooler!

This troper's middle name- Dundalkaforth. Most of the family have places for middle names- my brothers are Inverbervie (a small village in Scotland) & Edinburgh.

This troper has a friend whose middle name, I kid you not, is 'Vinkley''. He's also the fourth to be named the same in his family. When they read his full name out during Graduation- Name Vinkley Name the fourth- many snickers were heard.

This troper isn't sure if it counts, but his ''last'' name causes him no end of grief. Not because it's embarassing, but because people constantly mispronounce it, most notably vocalizing the "E" at the end, '''which, for the last bloody time, is supposed to be silent!'''

Does that name happen to be "Howe"? That happens to this troper often and has ended up becoming a nickname.

This Troper's grandfather had the unfortunate name of Frank Allen Goldstucker (look at the initials to see why it's unfortunate). Is it any surprise that he changed it to Frank Galen?

{{@/Emperordaein}}: This troper's middle name is Robin. Which doesn't sound so bad until you know that my first name is Christopher. Christopher Robin.

No way! This troper's younger brother was almost a Christopher Robin!

This troper's middle name is Rosemarie, although it's more of a subversion, since she likes it.

This troper's middle name is "Cecil" after is grandpa. Back in High School, he liked to never hear the end of it when the bus got the impression that it was a girls name. The DS remake of FinalFantasyIV has provided this troper with a pronunciation that can remedy the situation.

This troper's middle name is only embarrassing for its circumstances, and because she's had at least ten different friends with the same middle name (Lynn). What's really bad for her is that a nurse named her. Not her parents, or anyone significant, but some random lady working in the hospital.

A rare inversion: I was lucky enough to have the middle name of Mercedes, since my legal first name is Jack and my dad thought it was a good name for a private eye...

Andrea Desiree. Make a stripper joke and I kill you slow.

This troper's middle name is Register. When some people in his class found out, they literally did not believe him. He likes it though, especially when signing up for classes.

Chinese names normally come in three parts, which led to this troper's friend having the initials "SEX". I have no idea what his parents were thinking.

One of my middle names (Gwendolen) was horrifically embarrasing as a child and early in my teen years because it's so old fashioned and it's a street name around here. I'm unlikely to come around to my surname though.

Ntando. There's an invisible 'U' at the beginning. What was worse, back in primary school I thought it was Nintando.

Subverted by this troper, in that he chose the middle name (Aquinas, for those who are interested) ''himself''. Mainly chosen because it sounds cool and also because it makes his initials "CAB".

This troper hates her last name because nobody can spell it, hates her middle name EVEN MORE because... well. Scottish lakemonster, 'nuff said. She's coming around to her first name, thanks to Tim Burton.

Subverted: My friend's middle name is Salvatore. This is THE COOLEST middle name ever.

If you put the initials of This Troper's middle names together, you get MU. As in what cows say. Yeah. She usually just uses the M, to spell AMO. (Ammo).

This troper's initials spell out AMO, too. Now if she could just get her Korean students and coworkers to pronounce her first name right, she'd be fine.

This tropers middle name is one probably no person had as first name in the last 700 years (at least in it's full form) and is the name of a saint, which makes it even worse (he's atheist). His third name (second middle name?) is the name of his father which is not much better.

This troper's middle name was ''supposed'' to be her first name, but considering it was Ghanian and very hard (even for ''this troper'') to pronounce, her parents gave her an English name to use as her first name. I (switching to first person now) was never really bothered by my middle name (only by the fact I couldn't--and ''still'' can't-- write, spell, or say it properly) until around third grade, when a bunch of guys at my table in the classroom asked me what my middle name was. To the best of my ability, I told them and they burst out laughing; now, whenever someone asks me what my middle name is, I either start cursing/yelling/chiding/ignoring them (varies by person) or tell them I don't have one. Supposedly my middle name means 'Thursday', the day I was born.

This troper knows a girl who is embarrassed by her completely normal middle name: Andrea. It's a complicated situation.

Grace. Aside from being named after her ancient grandmother who she never met (and was apparently not a fun person to be around), this Troper is not in the least bit graceful.

Subverted: This troper's middle name, Blaine, is often cited as being totally badass.

Same here. Quite a few friends think this troper's middle name, Wilhelmine (pronounced "Will-AH-meen-ah") is really cool, but it's too long for her to use regularly. It actually was my great-grandma's ''first'' name, and she generally went by "Minnie".

This troper has a friend with the middle name "Irene". Not too embarrassing, until you remember that both her first ''and'' last names begin with "T", and then realize what her initials would spell out.

This troper had a teacher who married into the name Heather Leigh Heatherly.

This troper once knew a woman at her church named Gaye Freake. She later married and became Gaye King. On another note, the surname 'Freake' is very popular in Newfoundland, causing her Mom (a born and raised Newfie) to quip "There's a loy of Freakes in Newfoundland!"

Maybe it's a different part of the province where the last name 'Freake' is common, as I've never encountered anyone with it. However, I ''can'' vouch for that last part.

This troper has a neighbor whose married name is Carol Carole.

This troper heard what might be an urban ledgend about a a Candy Barr, nee Kane. Or was it the other way around?

There was a teacher from this troper's school whose name became Jenna Raider when she married.

This tropers father is Japanese, so all of our family has a Japanese middle name. Cool in theory, but I got stuck with 'Tsuyoshi' which got me called 'Hunter Sushi X' at my baptism, and just sounds dumb.

Inverted at my school. Many, many kids dislike their first name and go by their middle name. Oddest example is a kid who goes by Gunnar. His first name is Joe.

Odd? If my middle name sounded like gunner I'd use it.

This troper's middle name is Clint... as in Clint Eastwood.

This Troper plans on giving all her male children feminine middle names (Jayne, Mariam, Lindsay, Ashley, the like)

I hope you plan on letting your kids take karate or else they'll get beat up on the playground.

Ashley is a unisex name. Where do you think all those guys named Ash came from? In fact, pretty much all names ending in a "lee" sound were men's names at one point.

This troper can never remember how to spell her middle name. Every time she'll ask her mother or father, she forgets the very next day. It's pathetic, really, in the same troper's opinion.

This Troper doesn't have an ''embarrassing'' middle name, but she does have an extremely plain one. (It's "Ann", I plan on changing it to "rose" at some point)

This troper's middle name is Mavis. Mavis is an archaic name. This troper is a teenager.

Can't compare with any of the above--this troper's name is so common that when people find out my middle name, they wonder why I never told them before. Mostly because YouNeverAsked. I'm Jacob Thomas. Note that Jacob has been the number one most popular boys' name in America for about the last twenty-five years and Thomas is one of those names that never goes out of style (and gets used fairly often). At least my last name is fairly uncommon. There aren't a whole lot of people named E------- in America. Better not give you TOO much information....

Oh, by the way, I compliment the above (and maybe soon below) tropers on their courage in telling us their embarrassing middle names.

This troper's middle name is, surprisingly, the same as first name of his father's boss at the time said troper was born. The "boss" in question was in fact the country's leader at the time, responsible for the infamous "Martial Law" a couple of years earlier.

So you're basically named after a dictator? Ouch.

This troper knows of a dude who has Dolphin as his middle name. Bonus points for AddedAlliterativeAppeal with his first name, but still...Dolphin.

This troper's intials make an inversion. WITHOUT his middle initial, it becomes the local word for bra.

This troper was working retail a few years ago and asked to see a man's ID for his credit card. The poor fellow's middle name was "Sunshine"

This troper had a classmate shocked at discovering a female classmate had a middle name ("Marcela Sílvia?").

This troper knew a guy whose initials spelled out KKK. As in, Klu Klux Klan. Poor dude.

I've always been embarrassed of my middle name being "Benjamin."

This troper has a friend whose middle name is "Zenobia". Needless to say, she doesn't like it too much!

My middle name is 'Ai Ling' (in Chinese). It means 'love, the sound of tinkling jade'. Being a mostly EmotionlessGirl who does not believe in love does not help.

My middle name is Cole. That is a boys name. I am a girl. I got teased. End of story. Now it's a secret.

Not that I'm embarrassed of my Chinese heritage (although I am most certainly a shame to it, not being a big fan of Chinese food), but my middle name is Ta-wen. Which is apparently a bastardized form of ''Da''-wen, which is my Chinese name. I guess this is a subversion in that most people who find out about that name think it's pretty cool, but then, my ''last'' name is all that people have ever needed to make fun of me (because it fits ''stupidly'' well into "Matthew had a [LAST NAME]" sung to "Mary Had A Little Lamb," a nursery rhyme I will hate forevermore).

This troper's middle name is Clair. I'm a guy. No, not Clair as in Clarence, and yet I'm supposedly named for my adoptive paternal grand''father''.

Also, at some point, I'd like to invert this by changing my name to Christopher Blaine Bacon.

This female troper's middle name is Joseph. I'm named after my ''aunt''.

This troper's middle initial is E, and that's all anyone ever gets out of her. If pressed, she tells them it stands for Embarrassing. (It's not that it's a horrible name by itself, it just doesn't suit her at ''all.'')

This troper's mother's middle name is "Larysa". Even through this troper believes it to be really unique and pretty, her mother begs to differ and completely hates it. She also believes that everybody who says "nice name" upon learning it makes fun of her.

This Troper's middle name is Staples. She shares it with her sister- it's her mom's maiden name.

Are you a fan of CSLewis?

This troper has not an embarrassing middle name, but an embarrassing ''last'' name. And really, it beats every other name listed here. In my language, my last name literally means "chick" (as in the offspring of hens). But it's ''far'' more used as an informal term for... penis.

This troper took a middle name which he would have found very embarrassing during his formative years (Götrik), because there has been one in every generation of his family since 1610, but the tradition skipped his grandfather and father, and was in danger of vanishing.

This troper has a particularly interesting case. Her mother decided that it would be a good idea to pass down her maiden name by making it her daughter's middle name. This wouldn't be so bad if her maiden name wasn't "Pierobon". And it's even worse since her first name '''rhymes with it''' if you add an "a" to the end of her middle name.It pisses her off. And ''then'' her mother complains because her middle name is Joann. WTF? Hypocritical much?

This troper has the middle name of "Patricia". On those class lists, my middle name is shortened to "Patric", so my friends have sometimes called me "Patrick".

This troper has a horrifically embarrassing middle name. YourMilageMayVary since everyone she tells it to loves it but to said troper it's a BerserkButton. The middle name in question? [[spoiler:Irene.]] Since her middle name is horrific and her first name is constantly misspelled she will be going by her {{Badass}} last name in college.

This troper's middle name is P. To clarify, that's "P."; not short for Peter, Paul, Pea, or Priyadarshan, and not capital P. P dot.

Just Rudolph. Thanks Mom and Dad, but did you really have to give me that name?

This troper's name is archaic and she doesn't like is, but it's not emberassing at all. The problem is her last name, ''Kalashnikov''. But she feels sorry for her cousins with the same same surname. The girl's full name is "Tom Claudette Kalashnikov". yes, a girl, ''Tom'' - and she still insists to be called that, and not by the other two names. Her brother has a more standard first name, but his full name is still "Michael September Kalashnikov".

Also, this troper a pair of twins with a weird mother who named them "Ginger Tea" and "Honey Candy". The "Tea" part was pronounced as "Te-ah", but it doesn't really help. The father recently made the mother agree to rename them as long as it sounds close enough, but Ginger is probably not too worried since she chose the name "Ginny" as a tribute to Harry Potter, and "Tea" written differently like the girl from Yu-Gi-Oh. Honey Candy, on the other hand, already decided on Hannah, but from some reason she thinks that Candy and Kendy and anything that sounds close enough to satisfy her mother also sounds like a porn star name, so that will probably become a very objective case of emberassing middle name.

This troper's real first and middle name are truly Embarrassing Middle Names when they are put together, as they are archaic, rare, have the same inflections and -rhyme.-

Averted for this trooper. I have a first name and a last name that both start with a Z, which I occasionally get picked on for. Luckilly, my middle name doesn't, otherwise it would be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

There was a kid in my school whose middle name was "Lidl" (as in the supermarket). I also knew a boy who had the middle names "Erinn Sunshine" and another whose middle name was "Rainbow". I wonder about these people's parents sometimes..

Once upon a time, I worked in a call center, so we got to know each other's names pretty well. One phone goon was a SesquipedalianSmith who was named by hippies, so it was not surprising that she shortened her first name. It did, however, result in... Sunny Lane.

This troper sports the middle name Pearl. With no family tradition, she was saddled with a middle name which hadn't been popular for a good 80 years before she was born. She embraces it now, but found it painfully embarrassing as a kid. The one relief is that her mother intervened, because her father wanted to make it her first name.

This troper's sister's middle name is Henry, allegedly because that would have been her first name had she been a boy (it was also our great-grandfather's name). As far as I'm concerned, that would have been even worse.

This troper has two middle names (Morgan and Victoria). As a kid, I always hated Morgan, a fact which my older brother exploited shamelessly.

This troper's middle name long embarrassed him, not because the name is intrinsically embarrassing, but because it was mocked by other children back when he was about age 8 or 9. However, years later, this troper's nephew was given that same middle name in tribute--which suddenly changed the name into a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.

Not me per se, but the main character of my story has the middle name of Tabitha, mean while on the other side of the spectrum, the lead female has the middle name of Maverick.

I've hidden my middle name for all of my life for three different reasons; when I was little it was because I didn't know how to spell it, when I got older it was embarassing, and now it's because I like the fact that it's a secret. I've started giving it out to people who I really trust, partially to use as a question to confirm their identities. This only ever comes into play online, though. Still a fun secret, though.

This troper has a friend called Donald Eugene (Last Name). His little sister is a total tomboy whose middle name is Ashley. Joseph Robert is only amusing because A) He's Korean, and about 99% of the other Korean students have Korean middle names at our school, and B) It really, really, really, REALLY doesn't suit him. There's also a girl at our school whose middle name is Young-Jee, which my advisory monitor said it sounded like a rapper's name to him. My own middle name isn't terribly embarrassing (Elizabeth), its just.... common as flutes in a band for a girls' middle name. An AMUSING middle name instance is this troper's friend's pint-sized little sister's middle name is ALSO Elizabeth, while her best friend's middle name is my first name, which I have to admit, I have never heard used as a middle name before.

My name is Cianne. The middle name is pronounced 'Cyan' and people often spell it like 'Cyan'. Uh, it gets rather embarrassing when you have friends saddled with middle names like Maggie or Jennifer. :\ I honestly have no idea whether Cianne is a made up name or not. Then again, my dad is a big Spawn fan, and he wanted to spell it like Cyan...

This troper's mother decided early on that she wanted her first child to have her father's name as a middle name, and was not discouraged from this when said child turned out to be a girl. It's not a common girl's name (or at least it was before modern parents started getting creative with names for their kids), but later on it turned out to have the side benefit of giving me an instant drag king name to use.

A classmate of this troper had the middle initial "Z", and somehow managed to hide what it stood for all the way through middle school and high school. It wasn't until the National Honor Society induction ceremony (where they call each inductee by full name) that we found out it was "Zosia".

This troper has the unfortunate middle name Robyn. Not too bad, really, but it leads to a lot of 'Boy Wonder' jokes, because nobody realizes it's spelled differently.

This troper's middle name is Ruben. I don't like it very much. ^_^

This troper's middle name isn't so much embarrassing as it is... annoying. My middle name is the same as my father's first name - which would be fine, "Kevin Richard" is an okay name, if not for the fact that I also look practically identical to my dad. We live in a small town, so my dad is pretty well known, and the endless comparisons to my dad really get on my nerves. It just really bugs me that people see me more as Richard's son than as Kevin.

This troper's middle name is "Micheal." Not the AwesomeMcCoolname "Michael," but a slight mispelling that changes the pronunciation to "Michelle."

This troper's middle name is Bosque. Yeah. I dunno. I think it means something in Spanish, but I've never really looked into it. In fact, I try not to think about it too much. ... -.-

A friend of mine knows someone with the middle name "Spacecake".

If people ask me my middle name, I'll lampshade with this: #QUOTE# Some old red-necked southerner who knows nothing about modern politics decided to name me after a treasonous Confederate major...

La'Nita. *sputters unintelligibly* I hate my middle name. Sounds like something a Mary Sue on Fanfiction.net would have. I don't know what my parents were thinking.

Subverted: This Troper has what many would consider to be an EmbarassingMiddleName (It's Adair), and it is treated as much by everyone who finds out what it is (''"Your middle name is '''what'''?''). However, this troper actually likes the name, and is quite happy to have it as a middle name.

Inverted: This troper isn't embarassed by his name, and in fact his middle name is fairly regular. His first and last names, however... the first is a common name that has one single letter changed. That, unfortunately, causes people to frequently mispronounce it and try five different spellings before managing to get it right. The last name is worse, being (if I remember right) and Americanization of a Germanic name... or something. People ALSO have trouble getting it right. Throughout my ENTIRE school years from kindergarden to the end of college NOBODY could get both my first and last name right on the first try. Except one professor, upon which I found myself visibly shocked that he got them BOTH right the first time.

This spanish troper has a pretty unusual name, Arturo (Arthur). The problem is with the embarrasing middle name Ernesto. Since neither of both names are that unusual, the combination of both is totally unheard of. My combination of names make me appear as an english royal duke.

This troper's middle name is Adrian. No, really. I wouldn't mind as much as I do if it was spelled Adrienne, but it isn't. Plus, I absolutely ''hate'' the way it sounds.

Subverted with her two surnames. This troper thinks they actually sound pretty cool, but most people don't feel that way, thinking that someone just stuck random syllables together. Not many people can spell or pronounce them correctly, even though it's actually pretty easy to do so.