middle name

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First recorded from Harvardiana in 1835.

Historically in the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines, the Spanish naming customs traditionally displayed the full name as: : first name + second name + father's surname + Spanish y (“and”) + mother's surname During the US colonial era of the Philippines, the US naming custom took effect where the mother's maiden name is used as a middle + name, which displayed the full name as: : first name + second name + middle name (“mother's surname before marriage”) + last name (“father's surname”)

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: segon prenom — name between given name and surname
• Catalan: nom del mig — name between given name and surname
• Chinese Mandarin: 中間名字 /中间名字 (zhōngjiān míngzi) — name between given name and surname
• Czech: prostřední jméno — name between given name and surname
• Czech: druhé jméno — name between given name and surname
• Faroese: millumnavn — name between given name and surname
• Finnish: toinen nimi — name between given name and surname
• Finnish: välinimi — name between given name and surname
• French: deuxième prénom — name between given name and surname
• French: patronyme — name between given name and surname
• Georgian: მეორე სახელი (meore saxeli) — name between given name and surname
• German: zweiter Vorname — name between given name and surname
• German: Zwischenname — name between given name and surname
• German: Zweitname — name between given name and surname
• German: Mittelname — name between given name and surname
• Icelandic: millinafn — name between given name and surname
• Irish: lárainm — name between given name and surname
• Irish: dara hainm — name between given name and surname
• Japanese: ミドルネーム (midoru nēmu) — name between given name and surname
• Korean: 미들네임 (mideulleim) — name between given name and surname
• Macedonian: сре́дно и́ме (srédno íme) — name between given name and surname
• Polish: drugie imię — name between given name and surname
• Portuguese: nome do meio — name between given name and surname
• Russian: второ́е и́мя (vtoróje ímja) — name between given name and surname
• Russian: сре́днее и́мя (srédneje ímja) — name between given name and surname
• Russian: о́тчество (ótčestvo) — name between given name and surname
• Slovak: druhé meno — name between given name and surname
• Spanish: segundo nombre — name between given name and surname
• Swedish: andranamn — name between given name and surname
• Tagalog: gitnang pangalan — name between given name and surname
• Tagalog: gitnang apelyido — name between given name and surname
• Vietnamese: tên đệm — name between given name and surname
• Vietnamese: tên lót — name between given name and surname
• Finnish: toinen nimi — figuratively a trait, activity, or action closely associated with or aptly describing a person
• Polish: drugie imię — figuratively a trait, activity, or action closely associated with or aptly describing a person
• Spanish: apellido — figuratively a trait, activity, or action closely associated with or aptly describing a person
• Spanish: segundo nombre — figuratively a trait, activity, or action closely associated with or aptly describing a person
• Spanish: apodo — figuratively a trait, activity, or action closely associated with or aptly describing a person