My middle name is my mother's maiden name, which makes that as a security question kind of stupid. Not as stupid as people whose mother's maiden name continues to be her last name, but still. Everyone in my mom's side of the family has a family name as a middle name.

I am named after several dead relatives, on both sides of my family. My brother is named after a New Bedford cooper from the 1840s, who was a distant forbear. We're very good recyclers that way.

an old family name: Rising.

I knew a kid named Josh Rising when I was in high school. Nicest guy ever. Of course, irony being what it is, he wiped out skiing his senior year, had a compound fracture of his lower leg, and was ever after known as Josh Falling.

Yay Issac!! It's a good name.

I have friends who are going to name their 2nd child (due in 6 weeks) Lolly Cinnamon - surname Darling. If they are fooled and it ends up being a boy, he will be named Elvis Henry "Superman" - surname Darling. I love them, but they take wacky to the extreme.

I knew a kid named Josh Rising when I was in high school. Nicest guy ever. Of course, irony being what it is, he wiped out skiing his senior year, had a compound fracture of his lower leg, and was ever after known as Josh Falling.

I can think of worse ways to be teased with that name.

I have known both a Lolly and a Cinnamon, but the Lolly was a nickname for I forget what. Actually, each of those women was fairly wacky in her own right.

Dude, Rob Morrow is on Ellen talking about his daughter Tu. Tu Morrow. For reals.

You guys identified the same problems I had with the "depressed cities" list. Of fucking course NYC has high rates of AD consumption.

And growing up with a boy's name is not a huge deal.

A friend's husband is called John. Except that's not his name. He never has used his firstname. His lastname is Johnson.

This confuses the hell out of people.

"Issac" was my paternal grandfather's middle name.

I'm kind of surprised we don't have more wee or adult Elvises running about.

And growing up with a boy's name is not a huge deal.

That's what YOU say!!!

Yay for Isaac!!!!

My middle name is my mother's maiden name, which makes that as a security question kind of stupid. Not as stupid as people whose mother's maiden name continues to be her last name, but still. Everyone in my mom's side of the family has a family name as a middle name.

My last name is the same as my mother's. I feel like a jackass every time I answer the stupid security question!

My poor mother got a family middle name, but hers was bad-- McClellan. So she gave me one of what i think are the two most popular middle names-- Marie, because she hated her middle name. I then hated mine because it was too boring. I use my grandfather's middle name (which is his mother's middle name) as my middle name, Brooks.