Middle Names 2012: The New Connectors

Dec 24, 2024 12:40 AM

　　There are several hot trends in middle names 2012.

　　One is the Middle Name with Meaning — family surnames, place names, virtue names you might not use in first place but that make for distinctive middle names.

　　Another is using two middle names, often to honor family members.

　　And then there are The New Connectors.

　　These names don’t mean or stand for anything or anyone special. They just sound good, bridging the first and last names with a euphonious single syllable.

　　How do they differ from the standard middle names of yore, the Anns and Lees and Johns that might be thought of as The Old Connectors?

　　They don’t, so much, except that they’re not Ann or Lee or John.

　　Here, the New Connector Middle Names 2012:

　　girls

　　Bee

　　Belle

　　Bliss

　　Blythe

　　Bryn

　　Claire

　　Eve

　　Faith

　　Fay

　　Fern

　　Greer

　　Hope

　　June

　　Kate

　　Lake

　　Lark

　　Mae/May

　　Maeve

　　Page/Paige

　　Pearl

　　Rose

　　Rue

　　Tess

　　Wren

　　boys

　　Beau

　　Cash

　　Chance

　　Finn

　　Fox

　　James

　　Max

　　Penn

　　Reed

　　Van

　　Vaughn

　　West

　　either

　　Bay

　　Blue

　　Gray/Grey

　　Kai

　　Lane

　　Pax

　　Poe

　　Quinn

　　Ray

　　Reese/Rhys

　　Sky

　　True

　　Win

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