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babynames2005-11-02 01:50 pm
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Okay, here's my dilemma, I promised my best friend ( ERIC ) I'd name my first kid after him, no matter what the sex. So I've already decided if it's a girl, her middle name will have the name Claire Incorporated in ( E-R-I and C are all in Claire and I hate the name Ericka or any version of it), but the boys is a little more complicated. Eric's middle name is Randolph so I had decided on the name Payton Randolph, but I don't really like Randolph all that much, and any person I can find named Payton is a girl.
Do you have any ideas for me?
Do you have any ideas for me?
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1) Use the person's first or middle name (assuming you and/or the person whom you are honoring are part of a culture where it's okay to use the name of someone who is still living. If not, adjust according to what is acceptable in your respective cultures). Eric's not an automatic kick-me name, so I think it could work very nicely as a middle name for your baby.
2) Use a version of the name that is used in a different country. (This works best for names that are used widely.) Eric and variants are used mainly in Scandinavia, and most of the variants look an awful lot like Eric, so I'm not sure that'll be helpful here.
3) Use a name with a meaning that is the same as the meaning of the original name, or a name that contains an element with the same meaning. Eric is composed of elements meaning "one" and "ruler" so I think any name meaning ruler, king, etc., could be justified here.
4) If you think the honoree enjoys puzzles and word games, you could stretch it and use an anagram. (For instance, if you were honoring a Diana, you could name the baby Nadia or Aidan.) Oddly enough, that's not out of the question here - I knew a little girl named Ceri who was absolutely beautiful.
Beyond this, IMO, you are really getting too far away from the original name to really justifiably claim that you are naming the baby "after" the person in question.
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Personally I find, "this baby is named after you but I hate your name so I used this completely vague relation of a name instead" to be a pretty empty gesture. Either it's a namesake or not imo.
Other ways to honor someone in a name is by using a name they like, a name that has meaning to them (his favorite athlete/artist/author etc), a place name/noun name that ties you two together... something creative along those lines.
But calling Claire an Eric namesake... it doesn't really make sense to me sorry.
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"I want to name my baby after my friend Eric. What should I name my baby?"
Hmm.
:)
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