My boyfriend and I have recently started calling each other by our middle names every now and again. We love it, him especially.
I think it’s a cute thing to do because middle names are never used other wise, when I have kids I’ll probably end up calling them by their middle names from time to time as a way of being endearing and such.
[name]Do[/name] you use your middle names in this or any other way?
Well my first and middle names are [name]Angel[/name] [name]Starr[/name]…
I actually do get called by both. My grandmother calls me [name]Angel[/name] [name]Starr[/name]…she hardly ever calls me by just one name or the other. She calls me by both, like it’s a double barreled name. She does the same with my little sister, she calls her [name]Amber[/name] [name]Dawn[/name] like it’s double barelled. I’ve had friends call me [name]Starr[/name] too.
I think it’s a great idea to use their middle names to be endearing.
My sisters used to call each other by middle names a lot. I was never in on it, I guess I was too old. The middle name did stick as a pet name for one of them for a couple of years. It’s a fun way to use the middle names.
My SO dislikes his middle name, mine is a common one for when I was born. Growing up I knew I was in trouble when I got called by my first and middle name together.
However, at work I get called by my first name and a middle name thats not mine every day! And it changes based on who’s calling for me! So now at work people think that [name]Mae[/name] is my middle name, even though it’s not…it started because my coworker thought it was my name, and now its stuck and become a work joke…Oh well!
I use my eldest son and daughter’s middle names with their first regularly. I like it, it feels like a special name just for us. My second son’s middle name doesn’t flow as well, because my OH chose it, I occasionally use it, but he has a nickname I use more often.
I go by my initials [name]IRL[/name] (my middle name is similar to [name]Bea[/name] in that it sounds like the initial), so I kind of use mine. DH’s middle name is the same as my brother’s first name, so we never use his. DD [name]Grace[/name] [name]Patricia[/name], is called [name]Gracie[/name] [name]Pat[/name], [name]Pat[/name], [name]Patsy[/name], and [name]Patty[/name] by me more than her first name.
I don’t, but several of my family members (including my brother) are called by their middle names.
I think it’s a good idea as middle names are so underused which is such a shame! Unfortunately my parents weren’t kind enough to grace me with a middle name so mine will never be used 
I never use mine, but I know a couple family members that go by theirs. My grandma is called her middle name by her sister and her family, and my uncle (her son) goes by his middle name. I’m not sure why they do.
I don’t have an issue with someone choosing to go by their middle name, but it’s a pet peeve of mine to name someone [name]Michael[/name] [name]Andrew[/name] and call them [name]Andrew[/name] from the start. Why not just name them [name]Andrew[/name]? But like I said, if it’s your preference that’s fine!
If I went by my middle name it’s another popular name from the 80s so it wouldn’t be that exciting 
This is going to sound really weird, but here goes. I don’t call my boyfriend by his middle name and he doesn’t call me by mine, ever, but sometimes I call him by a fake middle name? The story goes like this. We met in college and we were friends for two years first, and he used to do these funny things like pop out from behind a chair to scare me or tickle me (not just me, all his friends who were girls) incessantly. When I get frustrated, I do the “First Middle Lastname” scolding thing… only I didn’t know his middle name. So one day I just popped out with “[name]Christopher[/name] [name]Wolfgang[/name] _________, STOP tickling me!” and it kind of stuck. So when we write each other emails or letters since we’re long distance right now, about half of mine are addressed to [name]Wolfgang[/name], or [name]Johnny[/name] [name]Wolfgang[/name] _______. (The [name]Johnny[/name] comes from Dirty Dancing, since that’s the first movie we watched as a couple… he calls me baby so I figured why not? lol!)
His real middle name is [name]Raymond[/name], which is his father’s name and they’re not speaking currently. So for me to call him [name]Raymond[/name]/[name]Ray[/name] wouldn’t go over well. And mine is [name]Aileen[/name], which is pronounced EYE-leen, but he is stubborn and pronounces it AY-leen which he likes better. He doesn’t even usually call me by my whole first name, it’s always either [name]Baby[/name] or [name]Kate[/name]/[name]Katie[/name].
Aw, that is so cute!
It’s always confused me that people do not use their middle names or when they are naming kids insert filler names because where I grew up and particularly in my family, middle names were very important, you either used them in combination with your first name or used them as a ‘backup’ name if you didn’t like your first name. It’s been that way for generations, making use of middle names. I’d agree, it can get confusing if you plan to never call your kid by their first name you give them, but I enjoy the notion of having a name to fall back on if I get tired of going by my first name, and I have on many occasions used my middle name as the name I go by.
So I get frustrated when I try to explain to people my dilemma in picking an awesome middle name for my daughter because I just get ‘oh why do you even need a middle name?’ and/or ‘oh it doesn’t matter, she’ll never use her middle name anyways.’ Then they proceed to suggest to me the most common filler middle names in use, not even ones that give the name flow or a rhythmic sound, names that would make it short and choppy and run together with the last name. I think to myself, why did I even bother engaging this person in a discussion about baby naming. This is why I like posting on the internet and getting feedback, I tend to get a much higher quality of it. 
[name]Love[/name] the idea, but my middle name is nowhere near usable (in my opinion at least) for an American teenage girl. It’s the first name of my grandmother who immigrated here from Germany, and so it sounds totally foreign :D.
My boyfriends Dad is called [name]Kieran[/name], I call him [name]Kieran[/name], everyone calls him [name]Kieran[/name], but a few years ago I learned his name is actually [name]Stephen[/name], and [name]Kieran[/name] is his middle name, no idea why he doesn’t use [name]Stephen[/name].
I think middle names are very important, I changed mine when I was 16, I had a middle name I HATED, some people in my family said I was silly because no-one uses their middle names but I couldn’t keep that name on my legal doctments like my drivers licence or passport. I always told people my name was [name]Laura[/name] [name]Kate[/name], so when I was 16 I legally changed it by Deed [name]Poll[/name], so that I was offically [name]Laura[/name] [name]Kate[/name].
I was born [name]Laura[/name] [name]Muriel[/name], which is a horrible horrible name (sorry to offend anyone but I hate it) I hated who was named after and changing it was the best things I have ever done, I don’t think she knows i’ve changed it yet, and that was 4years ago.
As PP said, middle names are there incase you dislike your first name, so if you dislike your middle name, why not change it?