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> Around these parts, middle names are not a thing.

Not sure where you’re getting that from. Middle names are very much a thing in Brazil. You don’t often find forms with separate fields for middle names but middle names are ridiculously common nonetheless.

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What I was trying to convey is that there are people with more than one name that are not their family names, but "middle name" as a concept does not exist in the same way it does in other cultures. It's not an expected component of a person's full name.