Show middle name custom the practice of giving a middle cameto name to children was wag unknown in england before the period ot of the stuarts and it did not become at all common until georgian times there wae was in fact a law on the statute books forbidding parents to give more than one name to their children the same conditions prevailed in north america not a member of the mayflower party had a middle name and there are only three among the signatures to the declaration of independence the first five presidents of the united states had one christian name came only |