For at least some people, how we sign our names, especially on an official document, is often just a matter of habit. Some years ago, for whatever reason I had at the time, I started signing almost everything with my full name. Now, 20+ years on, I still sign all documents with my full name. Other than personal correspondence, I haven't felt there's been a reason to change this habit now. 🤷♀️🙂
I was named Deborah Elizabeth Pattullo when I was born. If you count all the letters, that’s 24 letters, nearly 26 letters like in the alphabet. When I got married, I honestly thought about hyphenating my maiden name with my married name as there are no male children left to carry the Pattullo name which means that my grandfather’s lineage ends at this point as I have no children.
If you count all
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The initial represents the middle name.
When I sign my full legal name, I include the initial J since my middle name start with a J.
Where I come from, it is not compulsory to include a middle initial in your signature, but some people do, by choice. If someone used their first initial and full middle name, I would assume they were usually known by their middle name. The surname is the one thing that is normally written in full.
There are several James Buttses in existence, and a few in my area. Go to any search site and type in your first and last name. Now, check to see how many of those have your middle initial. There might be a few, but not nearly as many as with just your first and last name.
in my case I always put my middle initial in as there is another person in our location with exactly the same first and last name as me.
It stands for your middle name, if you have one. Suppose your name was something fairly common, say you were called Fred Smith. If you had a middle name eg Fred Thomas Smith, the T would help to distinguish you from any other Fred Smiths that might be confused with you.
It's making your mark.
You sign in full in the signature space - my signature is my first two initials and full surname - and initial anything significant along the way to show you've seen and agreed it.
I did it when I was 27.
I was born in 1950, and was given the name Gay Elizabeth Flygare. My parents had some friends with a little girl named Gay who had red hair, and she was darling. Mom being a redhead, my parents fell in love with the name. Naturally, my paternal grandmother detested it and begged my parents to use their original choice (and oh, how I wish they had), which was Karen Elizabeth. But my mom had quite had it with her mother-in-law telling her what to do, so she stuck to her guns - and Gay I was.
Of course, it meant - at the time - “blithe, cheerful, joyous.” The problem was tha
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I believe the middle name is part of your legal name, so the entire name woud be required on a legal document.
Names, in English, have one’s surname last sometimes preceded by a middle, given name. The first given name comes (surprise) first. any of those name may be represented by an initial letter. Now, what was your question?
Your question is very timely to me. My wife and I are in the middle of re-financing our home mortgage and the loan processor called me with this exact issue this week. I am also a notary signing agent who has closed hundreds of loans over the last ten years.
In our case, my wife’s original maiden-middle name is on her driver’s license. But, on her social security card, tax records and home title, the first letter of her maiden-last name is used. For example, the driver’s license says “Jane Linda Smith” and “Jane D Smith” on our home title. In this example, “Linda” is her maiden middle name and
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Because it is my full name, but I sometimes do it just to confuse. when people are being pedantic.
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I often use my middle initial because there are other people with my first and last name. This helps identify me.
No. And members of my family are good examples.
My mother, born in New York in 1910 to immigrants from Eastern Europe, had only a first name, Goldie. That was fairly common among Jewish girls in her day
I was born in New Jersey in 1945. I was given a first name, Sharon, and a middle name, Ann. I generally sign my name using my first name and middle initial unless I am specifically requested to write my full middle name.
I adopted my daughter from China in 1997; she was born in 1995. Her birth name is unknown, but she was called Zeng Chufang by the orphanage, with Zeng being her surname. Once in D
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The first thing you do is read the instructions. If it asks for your full legal name, then it wants your complete first, middle, and last name, no initials unless your middle name on your birth certificate is just an initial.
If it doesn’t specify what the document wants to be properly executed, use your regular signature, whatever that is, the same one that’s on your drivers license, the one you use in daily life, on your credit cards, the one that is legally and normally you.
If you are filling out legal documents from the beginning, when you are asked for your name, unless instructed otherwis
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If it is a document with legal purpose, such as a contract, a will, an application for a passport, etc., it is normally signed with your full name rather than just initials or an initial and last name to prevent confusion over who signed it. In a multi-page document there may be other places where initials are required. For example, when I had a Power of Attorney drawn up, I signed it with my full name but also initialed each page to show that I had read the full document and no extra pages had been added without my agreement.
I usually sign just my first and last names, but for some documents
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On a legal document, use your full given name.
If you can’t stand your name, get it changed legally from “Joseph” to “Joe,” after which you can sign legal documents with “Joe.”
P.S. as I was getting ready to submit this answer, I wondered whether it was a QPG-bot question. (I just checked, and, YES, it is. Sigh.)
This icon is the “tell”:
A deed is a legal document that transfers property from one owner to another. Once a deed has been recorded, that document can not be removed or modified. As such, there is NO way to “remove my name off the deed to the house my husband and I share”.
That said, and as others have mentioned, you can record a new deed that transfers the ownership that was granted to you in that prior deed to your husband. This is typically done using a quitclaim deed, in which you give up any claim you have in the property to your husband.
If you are still married and live in a community property state, such a quit
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Technically, yes.
However, I wouldn't recommend "First Initial + Middle Name + Last Name" format on resume or CV for the following reasons:
- Your second given name Shekar is actually your father's first name used as your middle name since birth.
- The format "First Initial + Middle Name + Last Name" is not widely recognized in India. Whereas the format "First Name + Middle Initial + Last Name" is popularly known worldwide.
- You don't want people to call you Shekar because that is not your calling name. Your are known by your first name Hardik which is your actual calling name. I'm sure you are known a
My full name is 19 letters long. It's not really a very long name, and I can imagine there are countless people with longer names.
However, I do find occasions that I can't fit my name into the space needed. Even more so, my work email address, which is my 15 letter name, a dot between the names, the @, then another 20 letters for the domain.
So what do I do?
I just squash it in as best I can.
If it's supposed to be one letter per box, I can see that my name won't fit. So I'll just ignore the boxes and write my name over the top of them.
If it's a single box or space, and I don't realise it will fi
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Yes, if you used your middle name on legal documents, instead of your first name, and started doing that today, that WOULD be a problem, because your name in your new legal documents would not match your name in your previous legal documents. Every time you need to use or show or submit your new legal documents, you would have to prove that you are the same person whose first name is different in all previous documents. That would be a serious hassle. And, in some cases, they may not accept your new legal documents.
How do individuals with different last names, whether married or not, use each other's first and middle initials on legal documents?
In the UK legal documents usually require all of the names of the negotiating prties. Normally people haave three names, but not alwys. If parties are married, they nevertheless enter into a legal conract using their full name.and as individuals. If they are “joint and several” they may of course be negotiating as one party with a second party. If they are negotiating “in common”, then the negotiation will be for their individual benefit or liability against a thi
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There is a place for a middle name on almost every single form in America.
You don’t have to have a middle name. It is OK not to.
But, if you don’t, then you still need to put SOMETHING on the form where it asks for middle name.
Fortunately, you’re not the first one to be in this situation. “No Middle Name” is abbreviated nmn, and John Doe would enter it on forms like:
John <nmn> Doe
That’s how you can answer the question, yet not have a middle name, and not leave the person who will read the form wondering why you refused to disclose your (assumed) middle name.
Yes, in many cases it does. If the document calls for a middle name,
then give it. If it calls simply for a middle initial than just write the first
letter of your middle name. No need to use either, if you do not have a middle
name. There are several reasons for use of a middle name. One is to name the person
after someone in the family, a dear friend of just to make the person’s name more
important sounding. The use of a middle name helps to identify and distinguish one
person from another, who may have the same sounding first and last names.
John Smith as say John R Smith. The middle name also hel
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Your legal name is your legal name and that’s how your name should appear on legal documents. In this day and age, DO NOT PLAY WITH THAT UNLESS YOU GET A LEGAL NAME CHANGE. I know a woman who used a middle initial on her marriage license, but when she divorced, the case was filed and the divorce granted without her middle initial (in CA). She moved to Georgia, tried to get a driver’s license, register to vote, etc. and spent three years having to straighten out the mess because Georgia wouldn’t accept her divorce judgment that changed her name back to her maiden without it matching her marriag
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Your signature is your signature, no matter how you do it. Some people make an “x.” Some people sign initials. Some people make a squiggle. It does not affect the legality of your signature. You cannot alter your signature for any document and then later complain that that is not your signature. Doing so would be a form of fraud.
Obviously, if you aren’t required to put in a middle name, then leave it blank.
I’ve worked with a lot of human resources systems and data over the years and in most cases, they don’t force you to have a value for middle name. Unfortunately, some systems, especially government ones, do require something. Putting in “N/A” would be good, if allowed, since the slash would be a good visual flag for someone looking at the data. However, the most common way I’ve seen a middle name designated for someone who doesn’t have one when a system requires it is as “NMN” for no middle name. Typically that valu
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The law normally does not care about minor mistakes that have no relevance as to the intent of the document. People can sign their name using their nickname [Bob instead of Robert], have a typo in their printed name, have a mistake in the date, etc. You can file with the County Recorder’s Office a Declaration that the correct middle name is “X” but it is not necessary. All that is required is that it is clear who the real buyer/seller was.
It is wise to use a middle name, or (in the case of people who have changed their last name due to marriage) their “maiden” or “birth” name, in addition to first and last names.
The fact is that simple first and last name duplications usually occur quite frequently. (Just look for your own name on any social medial platform.)
I have encountered at last four or five instances of people with the same
… (more)In the UK, your second given name is what is usually meant by a middle name (there is no formal distinction between all your given names). I have two given names and I think of the second one as my middle name, and if I wanted to include a middle initial in my signature it would be E, for my second given name Elizabeth. My mother’s maiden name has never been part of my name. It is not on my birth certificate and it would be actively unusual for me to start using it as part of my name. I don’t know if you could do that in some parts of the world but it would cause all sorts of administrative pr
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It’s not necessary to have a middle name. My parents didn’t give me a middle name, and I got through school just fine. However, most people do have a middle name, and computer forms, applications, and the like are set up for three names; if you don’t have a middle name, you end up having to explain over and over that you didn’t just skip that field on the form or whatever. When I got married, I took my husband’s last name, and used my maiden name as my middle name. I gave all of my children middle names because life is just a little easier that way.
I once allowed someone to call me the wrong name for 5 years before they realised they were calling me the wrong name, i never corrected them and responded to them normally. The reason for this is becasue it did not matter. Names are techniclaly arbitary, they perform the function of identification only, they could be anything that seperates you from the person next to you, as long as everyone accepts the name as identifying you, it is permissable.
Thus, the government does nto mind (generally speaking) what your name is, as long as it helps identify you. This means that if you use the same nam
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It would be all three (even if one was misspelled) for Social Security records — to get a full match. However, even SSA could likely match you with First, Last and middle initial and maybe even just first and last.
I can’t think of any consistency otherwise at least with schools or employers I’ve ever had. I never use my middle name unless a form clearly asks for middle name (not optional and not just the initial), which no employment application I can recall ever has. My current employer even after 27 years has no official knowledge of my middle name … I go by my first and last or “pmk” and it
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In California (where I practice, and the only state whose laws I can address in this answer), an individual’s fictitious business name can consist of one’s first and middle names, excluding the surname. Business and Professions Code Section 17900(b)
states:As used in this chapter, “fictitious business name” means:
(1) In the case of an individual, a name that does not include the surname of the individual….
I recommend that clients who use fictitious business names sign contracts and other legal documents with their full name followed by the DBA, such as:
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I suppose the answer to your question depends on the intended use for your initials. For instance, my initials are KGB - the same as the police force in the now dissolved Soviet Union. As a teen and young adult, I NEVER used all three initials to identify myself. I do not like unwanted attention so I only wrote KB. My husband’s initials are BRB - not the exact same first and last name, just same first letters if both names. His construction business is B and B Construction based on his first and last initials. I would DEFINITELY use my middle initial as identification if there is another famil
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If there is simply NO way for the system in question to allow for a second middle name, I just enter:
- First name,
- First middle name (ignoring my second middle name even though I use it professionally and personally as the name I go by)
- Last name (which you will note I also had to jam together early on in computer history because computers couldn’t figure out someone with two last names either)
All of them are imperfect solutions, but we just do the best we can.
In the US, your last name or surname is usually the last name of one of your parents, or your spouse's last name. As an example, my last name is Kaufman, because my father's last name was Kaufman. Of course, my mother, whose birth surname was Weinroth, took my father's last name when they married about three years before I was born, because that was customary in those days, so she also became a Kaufman.
When I married, I took my husband's surname, which was Shattuck. When we divorced, I asked the court to let me return to my birth surname, which was granted. I never remarried, so I kept my birt
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