How do Americans choose their names? Why do some names have more than two words? Sometimes one word is a surname, and sometimes it becomes a name. And why are there letters?

Americans generally have three names

The first one is the first name, the last one is the last name, and the middle one is the middle name

The middle name is OK Written in abbreviated form

That is, the first letter

For example:

Douglas J Spinella

That’s it

Douglas is the first name

Spinella is the last name

J Jone is the middle name, usually abbreviated to J