I think it's a Filipino tradition to have your mother's maiden name as your middle name. In my family, we were also given unique middle names so that our mother's maiden name is our second middle name. I guess we were lucky that our great grandfather changed his last name when he came to the US or we all would have had Protiniak as a second middle name, which doesn't flow too well with the rest of our names.
My mother also wanted us all to have something else to share in our names, so she gave both of my older sisters the same middle name, and my first name is a combination of their first names. My middle name is my mother's middle name as well. All three of the boys' names start with the same letter (as well as the name that was lined up for me in case I had been born a boy), but they got unique middle names for some reason.
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