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Help[Facts] Middle names in Greece
in reply to a message by Daividh
Welcome to the club, Hid Diva. As in the case of SarahJeanne, you are now officially a Sorceress's apprentice, to be trained, tagged, and released in the wild in due time.
And now for the "C" mystery. It is common practice in Greece for a person's middle name to be his/her father's first name. My father's name was Constantine (Konstantinos), and that is my proper middle name. Spriros is not exactly my middle name; my first name happens to be a hyphenated (yikes!) Pavlos-Spiros. My parents named me after two byzantine icons they treasured, St Paul and St Spiro. I eventually ditched Spiros and just go by Pavlos (or Pavlo or Paul etc).
And now for the "C" mystery. It is common practice in Greece for a person's middle name to be his/her father's first name. My father's name was Constantine (Konstantinos), and that is my proper middle name. Spriros is not exactly my middle name; my first name happens to be a hyphenated (yikes!) Pavlos-Spiros. My parents named me after two byzantine icons they treasured, St Paul and St Spiro. I eventually ditched Spiros and just go by Pavlos (or Pavlo or Paul etc).
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