Isn’t the middle name normally your mother’s maiden name?
It was his father’s middle name. His father was born into a Muslim family and left his religion.
His full name is Barak Hussein Mohammad Obama and the name was given to him by his Muslim father. In the Muslim world, a woman has no say, so there was no way she would give him her maiden name, as is sometimes the case in the Western world. However, there is nothing printed in any etiquette book that says the mother’s maiden name should be given to a son or daughter as a middle name. More and more women in this country are hyphenating their maiden name and their husband’s last name to get their children named, says Chelsea Rodham-Clinton, even though it’s not the real name Chelsea – just an example.
I know that’s how Spanish culture works, but in America our middle names are usually a family name or just a name our parents liked or made up. It is almost never a surname.
Not like you say no. In Islam, the son inherits the names given to him by his father, as well as his religion. ALL 3 names of Obama are Islamic…first and last African Islam…middle, Arab Islam. His full name is Islamic.
It was given to him. Not everyone uses their mother’s maiden name. The Jewish approach is to use the first name of a deceased relative.
Answer 6
my middle name is not my mother’s maiden name
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He himself chose to change his name from Barry Soteros to the name he has now because he wanted to more closely align with the image of his father’s legacy.
Source(s): Audacity of Hope
He chose it after his idol Saddam Hussein when he graduated from his Muslim school.
Everyone’s toy.
For what? It’s a very common Muslim name, isn’t it?
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He is named after his father, of Kenyan Arab origin.
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