What is your MIDDLE NAME?

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Raymond. I hate it. It's after my douche-baggy uncle.

I want to change it to something like Skywalker or Tiberious or something sci-fi

That depends. In many cases, only one part of the double first name is used, which might be either "Lisa" or "Marie" in this example. Sometimes though, both parts of the double first name are used when adressing a person. It depends largely on how well the two individual names can be pronounced one after the other and which part of his or her name a person likes better.

My father for example has a double first name, Klaus-Otto. Most people prefer to call him just Otto, which is in part due to Otto being a rather rare name in Germany nowwaddays whereas Klaus is very popular. So using the second part of my father's double first name is a way to distinguish him from other people called Klaus who might be around during the conversation. A few people refer to my father as Klaus-Otto when they speak to him, but that is rather uncommon and sounds a bit weird to us. I'm not certain he would even respond if anybody called him just Klaus.

In official usage, the rules are a bit different though. Sometimes double first names do not have a hyphen and the law then treats them like a first and second name. (The difference here is subtle; mostly it is that with an un-hyphenated double first name both parts of the name are used when addressing a person whereas in a first and second name case only the first name is used when somebody speaks to the person.) A person with an un-hyphenated double first name may only use the first part of their name in official documents (baring ID-cards and the suchlike), but a person with a hyphenated double first name must use both parts of their name in official documents; they count as a unit. Signing a contract with only the first part of a hyphenated double first name and the family name even renders it invalid in most cases.

Mine is Jillene Marie.

Francis

My middle name is Mary, which is the same name as my mother.

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Danger

We have those in Denmark too. Anne-Marie, Jens-Christian, and the like.

My middle name is Illeborg. But that's a surname, my mother's maiden name that they chose to call me and my sisters because it is unusual.

Maria.

I have to use both names in official situations too. Contracts and other documents would be invalid if I used only first name.
But generally I use only my first name. That's enough. Many people even don't know what's my middle name. Teachers like to use both, probably for fun.

Mine is Vermont.

That's my sister's middle name, after my mother.

Mine's Enough-to-get-my-identity-stolen-when-shared-online. Bit of a mouthful really

Evert named after my Grandpa. My initials are KES.

Trivia:
Harry S Truman (US President from 1945 - 1953) had no middle name and just a letter. Here is a quote from his page on Wikipedia.
"His parents chose "S" as his "middle name" in an attempt to please both of Harry's grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young"

My real middle name is Anne.

Another Marie here. I only know one person with the first name "Marie", but many people have that as a middle name, it seems.

Dawn. My Grandfather was named Donald, he died before I was conceived. Don = Dawn. The end of his life was the Dawn of mine or something like that.