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What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

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My middle name is Gene. Named after my father Eugene. Odd name for a girl but there are others, Gene Tierney an actress from the 1940’s.

I never knew my father. My mother left him when I was just a baby. He was an alcoholic and he abuse and beat her regularly.

Therefore all my life I have been saddled with this name of a person who did nothing more than contribute his DNA. Just before covid I had completed paperwork to change my middle name as it was nearing the time to renew my passport. However, I wanted to keep the same initial. I tested many “G” names, I liked Grace but there was already a Grace in the family. I thought of just adding a ‘T’ to the end to make Genet’ — very French sounding or just be plain ‘G’ like the agent on NCIS Los Angeles. My husband was very fond of Genevieve or Guinevere being the Englishman that he is.

Then covid came and the courts narrowed the hours and places you could request a name change and I never got around to getting it done. I sent in my passport renewal last week. So for at least the next ten years – I will be just plain Gene.