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in reply to a message by Felie
My understanding is that statistics are not officially collected for middle names. The U.S. Social Security Administration publishes data about first-name usage only.
In addition, the SSA data does not allow non-alphabetic characters or spaces in a first name, nor capital letters apart from the first letter.
So, if parents give their child a first name such as Mary-Ann, it will be recorded as Maryann, with the hyphen and capital A removed.
If they name her Mary (first name) Ann (middle name), even though they intend to call her by the double name Mary Ann, it will be recorded as Mary.
In addition, the SSA data does not allow non-alphabetic characters or spaces in a first name, nor capital letters apart from the first letter.
So, if parents give their child a first name such as Mary-Ann, it will be recorded as Maryann, with the hyphen and capital A removed.
If they name her Mary (first name) Ann (middle name), even though they intend to call her by the double name Mary Ann, it will be recorded as Mary.
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