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

My mother named me Rita Elaine after my beautiful Aunt Rita from England. I went by my middle name all through my childhood and still am called Elaine by family and friends.

Thirteen months after I was born my mom and dad brought home a brother for me. His name was Dewayne Clyde appropriately named after my father Jesse Clyde.

Now bless my dad’s heart he was named after his grandfather Jesse so he went by his middle name also, Clyde. It’s almost as if names were meant to be completely confusing!

It really isn’t though. Think about it! Elaine Rita just doesn’t roll off the tongue as captive as Rita Elaine.  Clyde Jesse sounds decent, but Jesse Clyde the sequence of names demands more attention.

So I understand why the position of names. It’s all in the way the names sound together in my family. Which explains Momma calling me and my only sibling rhyming names Elaine and DeWayne. Only in the South!