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Old 03-24-2019, 06:28 AM
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Robert Louis Steveson

Why do we have a middle name? We almost never use it.

But there is actual history behind it, and it dates back to ancient Rome.

Many Romans had three names, a praenomen, which was a personal name, a nomen, which was a family name, and a cognomen, which indicated what branch of family you were from. The more names you had the more respected you were by others. Women only had two names, and slaves typically had one. An example you may be familiar with, Gaius Julius Caesar.
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