middle name 的詞源
middle name(n.)
"中間位於名字和姓氏之間的個人名稱部分"，1815年，來自 middle（形容詞）+ name（名詞）。作爲“一個人的傑出特徵”，口語，來自1911年的美國英語。
According to Mr. H.A. Hamilton, in his "Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth," the practice of giving children two Christian names was unknown in England before the period of the Stuarts, was rarely adopted down to the time of the Revolution, and never became common until after the Hanoverian family was seated on the throne. "In looking through so many volumes of county records," he says, "I have, of course, seen many thousands and tens of thousands of proper names, belonging to men of all ranks and degrees,—to noblemen, justices, jurymen, witnesses, sureties, innkeepers, hawkers, paupers, vagrants, criminals, and others,—and in no single instance, down to the end of the reign of Anne, have I noticed any person bearing more than one Christian name ...." [Walsh]
根據 H·A·漢密爾頓先生在他的《伊麗莎白女王的季度會議》一書中的說法，在斯圖亞特王朝時期之前，英格蘭沒有給孩子起兩個基督教名字的習慣，在革命時期之前很少採用，直到漢諾威家族登上王位之後才變得普遍。他說：“在查閱如此多的縣記錄卷時，我當然看到了成千上萬的適當名稱，屬於各種等級和程度的男人，貴族，法官，陪審員，證人，擔保人，旅店老闆，小販，乞丐，流浪漢，罪犯和其他人，但在安妮女王時代結束之前的任何一個時期，我都沒有注意到任何人有超過一個基督教名字....”[沃爾什]
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