Middle Names

While at the airport we took a peek at Anastasia's passport to see what her middle name is. I was like, what is that, it looks like a man's name with a ending added to it. Well, sure enough it was. After researching online, I figured out why her name looked like that, and what her father's name most likely was. I'm not going to type it on here for the whole world to see. But we don't know what to do about her name. It's a debate a lot of adoptive parents have, a lot leave it up to the children, and a lot just rename them without asking. We are going to keep her first name, no we are not going to ask her if she wants a new first name. Gosh, when I was 7 I named everything Susie, I don't think a child that age needs to be naming themselves. Just my opinion. Well, her middle name is out-there here in America, I can guarantee noone here could even round about pronounce it.
So, what to do? What if we give her a new name and her father was this super wonderful man. What if we keep it and her father was some sort of monster?

Here is the explanation I found online:

A Russian name generally has three parts: a given name, a patronymic,
> and a family name.
>
> The given name is like a first name in English. Most male names end in
> a consonant, and most female names end in the sound "a".
>
> The patronymic is the one that's unusual from an English perspective.
> It's name that is based on the person's father's name. It's generally
> formed by taking the father's name and adding -ovich for a man, or
> adding -ovna for a woman (these endings can change to -yevich and
> -yevna if the father's name ends in a "soft" consonant).
>
> The family name is like a surname in English. For a woman, the sound
> "a" is tacked on to the end of the surname, but it's considered to be
> the same surname. There are also some surnames that end in -sky (or
> -ski or -skiy, depending on the transliteration). This changes to
> -skaya for a woman.
>
> Some examples:
>
> Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
>
> His given name is Vladimir, his father's name is also Vladimir, and his
> family name is Putin. His daughter is Yekaterina Vladimirovna Putina.
>
> Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova
>
> Her given name is Anna, her father's name is Sergei, and her family
> name is Kournikova (or Kurnikova if you want a more accurate
> transliteration). Her father's last name would have been Kournikov.
>
> The most common way for two adults to refer to each other is by their
> first name and their patronymic. The patronymic would be dropped only
> in the case of a very close relationship. Using the last name would
> generally be seen as being extremely formal.







So, any input? If we give her a new middle name, I am leaning toward giving her mine, Anastasia Michelle, but that is really long. I don't know!!!
Oh, and if we keep her middle name, her initials would be A.S.S.