""People have a lot of anxiety around middle names. It's on your passport and when you're filling out official documents, you use your middle name. But your co-workers aren't going to know your middle name. Your friends aren't going to know your middle name. The amount of time you're going to say your child's full legal name out loud is very small.""
""There is one major difference between first names and middle names: People don't care whether middle names are popular or not. The Social Security Administration releases an annual list of the most popular first names, but there is no easy way to track the popularity of middle names.""
""If you grew up in the 1980s, you likely know exactly what a 'filler' middle name is - and chances are that you have one yourself. In 1980, 10% of all female babies born in California received the middle name Marie, and 25% received one of the following five middle names: Marie, Ann, Lynn, Elizabeth, and Nicole.""
Dr. Hannah Emery, a naming expert, found that 56 children in California were given Danger as a middle name in 2017. She emphasizes that middle names are rarely used in daily life, often only appearing on official documents. Unlike first names, middle names do not follow popularity trends, as there is no comprehensive tracking. Emery categorizes middle names into three types: filler names, family names, and fun names, noting that many common middle names from the 1980s were often used as fillers.
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