Fillers.

[bree019.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else annoyed when a personal name is used as middle name filler again and again? For example...

My grandmother (whom I adore) is named Marie. She named herself, actually. She was 7 or 8 and was called "Baby" until that point because, well, she was the baby. Her mother finally decided to give her a proper name, but my grandmother hated her mother's choice. Her mother said, "Fine, choose your own name."

..and she chose Marie. She's in her 90s, so this was quite a while ago.

I've seen *so* many people pair Marie with a cutesy first name because it fits well, and it never fails to irk me. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect to be the only one on the planet to use it (especially since it was popular when my grandmother chose it) but, I don't know...it means something to me. And I hate that because I'll choose to give my future daughter the middle name Marie, it'll seem like it's just a filler. Like Elizabeth. Or Michelle. Or Renee.

Anyone else feel this way? No flames, please...I'm absolutely aware that I'm being irrational.

Comments

[k-t-bug.livejournal.com]

I feel that way about Grace. That's actually one of my nicknames. I was Grace and my brother was George. I always thought it'd be sweet to carry it on with a daughter, but that was before it became one of the three filler middle names of this decade. It does seem to take something away from it. Irrational or not, I agree with you.