> > My paternal grandmother's middle name is Maxine.
> >
> > My maternal grandmother's first name was Maxine.
> >
> > I didn't have a prayer of escaping it.
>
> My mother's name is Maxine. For some weird reason, they decided not to make that my middle name. I have no idea why not.

My best friend had her first son's name picked out long before she had her husband picked out (as do most of us girlie-girl types), using her mother's maiden name and her own maiden name, so he became Boyce Warren [LastName]. When her daughter was born first, she used her mother-in-law's maiden name and someone else's, but I forget who, so she became Temple Day [LastName]. So so cool.