Chinese people do not have middle names. Traditionally, there are several types of middle names in East Asia. One of the middle names of Chinese Han names is the character for generation, which has the function of distinguishing seniority. It also has the character for ranking to indicate the order of the family, but most people no longer mind the middle name. meaning, forming a single-character surname + a two-character first name.

The middle name refers to the words between the first and last words in the names of people of some ethnic groups. It can have one or more words. Or called "the second given name" (the second given name), "the third given name", etc.

In the United States and Canada, names usually include only one middle name, which is often abbreviated ("middle initials") when writing (especially in signatures), for example, James Robert Smith is written as James R. Smith, or even omitted directly to James Smith. In other English-speaking countries people often have multiple given names, although their first given name is better known.

In some other countries, the term "middle name" only refers to those names that are at the end of the name but are not part of their surname (for example, a person can be named after his mother's maiden name) surname as middle name).

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South Asia:

The Rajputs use Singh (lion) or even Kumar (child) as their middle names.

Sikh men, for religious reasons, should call Singh as their surname. Sometimes they use Singh as their middle name instead, such as Mudhsuden Singh Panesar, better known as Monty Panesar. Sikh women, for similar reasons, often take the surname Kaur and instead use it as a middle name; an obvious example is Parminder Kaur Nagra.

In South India, initials are frequently assigned to each specific family member's surname, usually in addition to the surname. It is composed of each member of the paternal family.

For example, YeduguriSandintiRajasekharaReddy can be decomposed into Yeduguri, (theSurname); Sandinti, (theFamilyname); Rajasekhara, (theFirstname) andReddy, (theMiddlename).

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