What's with all these variants of "Helen"?
Parents of today pull out all the stops when naming their children, in the mad delusion that somehow if their child is not given a unique name, then that child will fail to be unique and special and accomplished and wealthy enough to take care of them when they retire. Except for one stop: the middle name.
So what’s my middle name? MARY - and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Fr. Bryce Sibley is kind enough to point us to the Institute for Naming Children Humanely
So I couldn’t resist checking out how I did with the spawn.......
Emily - OK - Dates back to Chaucer
Frances - not on their charts; what are they thinking?
Bridget - OK -Although there has never been a dark-haired "Bridget" in history (not as long as our Princess is stalking the Clairol aisle.)
Martha - OK - Apparently, "Pat" is a nickname here. Hmmm
Charles - OK - Plenty of famous namesakes, from Darwin to Brown
Edward - OK - Use "Ted" as a nickname for "Theodore" (oops, too late for us. We have a Ted, as in Edward - gulp - Kennedy. Everyone knows the nickname for “Theodore” is “Beaver.”)

And the middle names? Smith Louise Caroline Lenor RIchard Smith Nicholas Smith.