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I don't refuse to use names in combos. There are names that I view as filler and I still like them, though then I'm more likely to use them as first names. There are filler names that I refuse to use just because I find them excruciatingly boring and don't like them, but not solely because of the fact that they are filler.
I do think Rose and James (but especially Rose) are filler middle names. Generally I guess the phenomenon is more present in girls' names. I don't see Samuel or Jonathan as filler middle names, and Jack much less than John. But then I am not an English native so my perception may very well be skewed.
Names I consider filler middle names: May/Mae, Rose, Ann(e), Lyn(ne), Fay(e)/Fae, Hope, Joy(ce), Faith, Katherine/Catherine/Kate, Mary/Marie, Louise, Lee/Leigh, Jo, Jane, Jean, June, Sky(e), Grace, Elizabeth/Beth, Michelle (or perhaps these people I've come across with the middle name Michelle just were named after a relative, I don't know, I know or have heard of a lot of younger women/girls with middle name but haven't ever heard anyone say it's a filler), Rae, Shay, Kay, Jay, Belle, Jayne.
John, Michael, Jack, James, Joseph, Joe, George, Owen, Patrick, Jay, Lee, Wynn, Reid, Ray, Thomas.

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Emilia Anna, doting cat mummy to Russian blue Misha.
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