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I have a filler middle name and I hate it. I wish I had a name I could be more proud of. My name is Amy Lynn with an ugly very long Polish last name that sounds completely different in English than it does in Polish. My parents had no reason in particular for choosing my middle name, just that it was short and went well with Amy. But people never have to write their full middle names anyway, so the idea that my name had to be short I don't think was well thought out at all. That's the whole problem with it. I feel like they did not think out my name well enough for me to find any meaning or take pride in it. It feels like such a generic combo. I even know another Amy Lynn. I can't help but wonder why they gave me a middle name at all. All I can do is take what pride I can in my first name, although that's taken me a while, and look forward to changing my last name to that of my future husband's. I just know I want to think long and hard before naming my children. A person's name should never be given to take up space.