Middle Name Pride Day (MNPD) is a day to celebrate middle names. MNPD is celebrated as other than a legal or civic holiday. Middle Name Pride Day occurs in March on the Friday of Celebrate Your Name Week which takes place the first full week of March. Middle Name Pride Day encourages people worldwide to step beyond tolerance or even acceptance of the name or names that fall between his or her first name and his or her surname. MNPD is noted across the United States in newspaper articles such as the St. Louis Post Dispatch and this one from the Oakland Tribune .