Middle names are a weird custom.
It's like a semi-secret part of your name that you only randomly use sometimes, and usually only in initials, and which no one else knows except your family.
It is as if the Anglo-Saxons were preparing for a real world Death Note attack I know your true name-style.
Many East Asians, notably Chinese immigrants, choose to adopt a Western name pseudonym to make it easier for Western people who don't speak the language to call them and remember their name.
Cowards! Ciro Santilli would much rather just torture foreigners into learning his language. But fair play.
More interestingly however, some of the names chosen are not typical names, and some end up being very cute or mildly funny. Perhaps it is partly linked to given names are getting weirder.
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