Nope, sorry I meant that she has her first name, 3 middle names and then her surname. She also has a nickname that everyone calls her (not close to any of the four names). She was named after her aunt.
I have a first name, middle name and then surname. I have my gran's names.
People used to have a load of names as it was the norm to pass down the family names. You would be extremely unpopular if you did not give your child his/her grandparents' names.
Thankfully that has come to and end :-) People are moving away from family names and the norm nowadays is to have either just a first name or at most a first name, one middle name and then the surname.
I'm not quite sure but if I recall correctly, my dad said that people would call the first son after the fathers family and the second son after the mothers' family - something to that effect ;-)
Give away all - not a chance. Give away some - of course.