Show middle name custom cuttaia the practice of giving givin a middle name to children was ita unknown known in ell ens land before the period of the stuarts and it did not become at it all common until georgian times there was in fact a law on the statute boo books ils forbidding I 1 parents to give more than one name to their children the same conditions prevailed in korth North america not a member of the mayflower fay flower party had a middle name and there fire are only three among the signatures to the declaration of independence the I 1 first five presidents of tile the united states had one christian name only |