Do You Like Your Middle Name?

This one really flows off the tongue.

Howdy! It’s Joey, back with more Fun Fact Friyay. Before we dive in…

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Macaulay Culkin’s middle name is Macaulay Culkin.

It’s been a big week for the Culkin kids. Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor for his role in A Real Pain, something I’ve been in since starting a new workout routine.

Kieran and his wife Jazz Charton share a pact to have another child anytime he wins a major award. So, we may be congratulating his growing family, too.

It was also around this time in 2019 that Macaulay Culkin legally changed his middle name. He was born Macaulay Carson Culkin, but, as he told Jimmy Fallon in 2018, he was looking at his passport and decided Carson could use a little sprucing up.

Would he have been so brash if he were speaking to Johnny Carson? Who’s to say?

Anyway, Culkin, who had a sturdy Twitter following before Elon Musk bought the platform and ran it into the ground, told his followers that he was going to legally change his middle name—and they could choose the result.

Users got to submit their best monikers, and Culkin picked his favorites to run in a poll.

The runner-up was TheMcRibIsBack. Rumor has it McDonald’s is still distraught to this day. Other finalists included Shark Week, Publicity Stunt, and Kieran, suggested by the younger Culkin himself.

Culkin made the announcement on Christmas Day, 2018. In April 2019, he said the name change was complete, though the process took longer than he expected. That means it’s been about six years since he’s officially been Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin. Amazing.

I like my middle name, so I won’t be making a similar change anytime soon. But if you’re thinking about switching yours, turning to a public poll might yield you some creative ideas.

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