If I had to do it over again...

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Mine is Marie. Every Catholic girl's middle name is Marie.

There's a scene from, maybe the first episode of the TV show Brooklyn Bridge, where Alan is being introduced to a bunch of girls . . . "This is Mary Ann .... and Mary Jane .... and Mary Elizabeth ... and Mary Louise . . . . . . "

We tried to pick very straight-up, obvious names that wouldn't be hard to pronounce or spell. I'm happy with them.

However, my dad's middle name is Allen. (In fact, this is what his mother and all her relatives called him, though nobody else ever has to my knowledge.) When I got hold of a genealogy of the family one of his distant cousins did, I learned that Allen had been a middle name for 4 or 5 generations back. If I had known that before my son was born, I'd probably have suggested that for him.