Hal, meet my daughter Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal. She's a news reporter. You might have seen her on TV.
But I agree. I had a client once that had 4 kids, (3 fathers) and each one had 6-7 middle names. To this day, i can't remember the kids first names. I remember hers though, she was a stripper.
And the unique spellings are as bad. I think I saw on ESPN, (the network, not the children) that there are about 6 diferent ways that you can spell Dion/Deon/Dionne/D'On/etc. Enough. If you can't find it on a pencil, then spell it some way you can. All the little 1st graders will have pencils with their names, but not little Mykale. All his pencils say Michael.