A girl might have a middle name 'ying', as a mark of a female child.
The journalist's name herself is distinctive, with a number for a middle name!
Indeed, he suggested that pessimism was his middle name.
We know of the signature which misses out the middle name, or is slightly different from that on the electoral roll, and so on.
He has written about himself, "hyperbole is my middle name".
I think his middle name is consistency.
Courtesy is my middle name.
It is also due to the misunderstanding that the second syllable is a middle name.