mail sender name repeats middle initial

I am seeing this as well. Since I have multiple accounts setup for myself I will actually see it for my own other email addresses that are not in the Apple Address Book. Very irritating. I found that I too can manually remove them from the Previous Recipients but they will crop back up again in no time.

Looks like I've found "a" solution, hopefully "the" solution by stumbling around in the address book after checking user account, remote server and this here thread.

I have several email addresses and all of them have my name associated with them but ONE "card" associated with address in particular had a MIDDLE INITIAL entry field, where the rest did not. My hard headed /pragmatic (and i'm sure in the frenzy of setting up one or more of the POP accounts EXPEDIENT) solution was rather than figure out how to access the middle initial window by second guessing some over-clever Cupertino interface guru who made the function of this middle initial this option "so obvious" that it's eludes yours truly I cheated and put the initial in the first field... and since my name W T works like E. B. White's etc etc. this worked fine until ONE of the accounts like this started picking up the initial from the ONE in particular which HAD the initial field and utilized it as designed... Once that was deleted and harmonized with the other myriad "mickey moused" ones it cleared up the problem.

How to make the middle initial field reappear in all the other address cards save for the ONE is still beyond my understanding so let me know what I'm missing if ya'll know the easter egg to make this reappear...

Here's to hope this sticks and helps ya'll out, cheers –wt

2.93 GHZ Intel Core Duo yadda yadda running OSX 10.5.8

Are you saying that you got rid of the issue by NOT using the middle name field? I've got one user with this issue and so far I have not figured out how to fix it. I've turned off all syncing, as I thought it had something to do with Mobile Me or our

I've also got a similar problem with the medical suffix on the contacts for my parent's names. I keep putting them in as <First as first name> <Last as last name> <D.O. as suffix>, and they end up as <First as first name> <"Last D." as middle name> <O. as last name> <nothing in the suffix field>. I thought this was caused by my Gmail syncing, but I'm not sure now.

If you want to add a middle name field (or others) to a record in Address Book:

have a contact selected that you are currently editing

click Card --> Add Field --> Middle Name

We're definitely seeing this in 10.6.8, I may be seeing the suffix issue in 10.7.2.

I am still (as of 10.7.3) seeing the doubling of my middle name and suffix in certain emails that I see and it shows in previous recipients. A fix would be great as it draws questions often. Hope springs for resolution with Mountain Lion.

Did you try deleting that one in Previous Recipients?

Do all the cards have a Middle initial field?

SElec All then Card>Add Field>Edit Template... does Middle show there?

I have been deleting all the entries for me that show an iteration of this problem in previous recipients everytime I get an email that shows my name incorrectly. It is sometimes difficult to tell whether their (the sender's) computer has it wrong or mine but I have seen at least one or two instances of either the middle name or suffix being doubled when I check each time.

The frequency of this has diminished over time so I suspect that deleting the incorrect entries is helping or the bugs are slowly getting removed.

As to the cards question, my problem is just for me and all the relevant email addresses are on my address card so there shouldn't be an issue there.

I suspect that this could be related to perpetuation of things when my multiple Macs and phones got synced way back when with Mobile Me and now iCloud.

With everything tied to one synced-up address card though, this really shouldn't be an issue that recurs by my thinking.

Thanks for the suggestions.