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Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by oriolid on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:55AM (#28537544)
Is there a limit that a person can have only one middle name?
Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by denton-scratch on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:29AM (#28538793)
In practice, yes.

I have two middle names; most financial service providers decline to recognise my second middle-name. Same goes for the taxman and my pension provider. It seems that a "full name" is no longer a canonical identifier for a person, just really a kind of nickname; the canonical identifier is now an account-number, employee-ID or whatever.

Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by michaelt on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:44PM (#28543487)
Thanks to marriage, names were non-canonical before the computer was even invented.
Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by IIsi50MHz on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:38PM (#28545907)
And thanks to people moving house, or even changing profession, or acquiring some defining trait or accomplishment. With most people being undocumented throughout history, names could be much more fluid, like the way a person's "nickname" may change many times with or without consent.
Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by IncRnd on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:42AM (#28539730)
No. There is not limit. That can by proven by seeing people with multiple middle names or by naming your child with multiple middle names. How could there possibly be a limit? Even with the case where systems can not store or recognize the length of such a name, the middle names themselves are not limited. People's names are not entries in a compiler's symbol table.
Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by bityard on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:51PM (#28542183)
My son has two middle names (one for each grandfather), but he's still very much a minor and so not in very many "systems" yet.

(Although probably a lot more than I know about.)