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

[mysticamor.livejournal.com]

my middle name IS marie and I hate it. My grandmother named me after Jackie O and couldn't think of a good middle and just decided to put marie as my middle name. It was a toss up between marie, elizabeth or ann. Any of those suck! I think if it has significant meaning to you then use it but filler names need to be outlawed for sure.