why do we have 2nd names and what are there meanings?
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If you're talking about last names, it's a little complicated. Last names were a way of identifying yourself back in old times, as where you came from or who your family was, your village, or your clan/tribe. It's been around since before the biblical age. Watch Braveheart with Mel Gibson in it, and pay attention to how they introduce themselves. You'll see what I mean.
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Just to correct you, it's a first name that you're asking about.  Here's a Web site that has lots of examples.
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I'll use the name Jane as example: Jane Jane bo Bane banana fanna fo Fane me mi mo Mane, Jane.\n\nBasically you start with the real name twice, banana fanna fo, rela name, only first letter replaced with an F, me mi mo, real name, only first letter replaced with an M, real name.\n\n\nPS- Why is this listed under government?
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In all actuality all we are are numbers. Nobody really cares what your name is when they are getting money from you and when the government looks at you.\n  To put yourself out there by helping people, volunteering, spending time with your brother or sister, and/or having a child is when you really have a name. Now think would you rather be a number all your life or be a name?
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Because they're names.
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Because there are so many people with the same first and last name. You can better identify a peson with their full name and date of birth.
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Why do peoples' parts have different names if they are all joined together?
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At birth - to reomve the first sin ASAP. \nThe name - that is sth different. Changing the name, in literature, sometimes signify the change of personality, of wievs, new role, destiny - like in a bible...
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In many cases last names derived from what people did for a living. Imagine a village where several men named "John" live. In conversation, you might distinguish between one John and all the others by saying "John The Blacksmith", or "John The Baker". Eventually, human nature being what it is, people would drop the "The", and you'd be left with "John Blacksmith" and "John Baker".\n\nAnother way last names came into being was as a method of indicating lineage or parentage. "John MacDonald", in Scotland, used to literally mean "John, son of Donald."
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a name is only special to the person giving it to you. The only way people really care what their names are is whether or not people give them crap about it! My mom and a million other mom's at that time thought Jennifer was a great name. There were 26 people in my graduating class, eight of us were Jennifer, 7 with the same middle name. ORIGINAL
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as a first or last name?
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Probably someone who is having a bad day or decided that your name is better then theirs.  I like your name.
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It means 2 things that you had a past girlfriend and could have one in the future. Would you like to be referred as the current boyfriend think abt it
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Many people's names include one or more middle names, placed between the first given name and the surname. In the West, a middle name is effectively a second given name and is frequently abbreviated by its possessor to its initial letter.\n\nDespite their relatively long existence in the Western world, the phrase "middle name" was not recorded until 1835 in "Harvardiana" a periodical of the time. Since 1905, "middle name" gained a figurative connotation meaning a notable or outstanding attribute of a person. This figurative use is especially popular in films (see "Quotes" in External links).\n\nThe use of multiple middle names has been somewhat impeded recently by the increased use of computer databases that allow for only a single middle name or more commonly a middle initial in storing personal records, effectively depriving persons with multiple middle names of the ability to be listed in such databases under their full name. Especially in the case of government records and other databases that are used for legal purposes, this phenomenon has sometimes been criticized as a form of discrimination against people who carry multiple middle names for cultural or religious reasons.\n\nIn United States, the middle name is rarely used on official documents. The middle initial is used instead on most identity documents, passports, driver licenses, social security cards, and university diplomas. Examples of this form include George W. Bush and John F. Kennedy.
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i don't know why we have middle names, but you parents decide that, i know people with 4 names(2 middles) u don't need one but if u want one go to the courthouse or where ever u go to get your name changed.
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Seems there are quite a few people who are your namesakes out there. Just Google your name to see for yourself.
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I agree most strippers use stage names. If you want to have a stripper name use your middle name as your first and then the street you grew up on as the last. Hasn't everyone gotten that e-mail when it went around.....