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[scottish-diva.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the amount of posts in one night, i'm bored and have no life lol.

WDYT of sons/daughters being named after their mothers/fathers?
Eg. Daddy is Oliver so first baby boy is automatically Oliver etcetc.

My SO's family is like that. His name is Malcolm, as is his dad's, and his mum's new husband is Paul, their new baby boy is Paul.

I'm not to keen to be honest, i kinda want everyone in my household to have their own name and individuality kind of thing, and also, don't want my son and SO turning if i shout 'Malcolm' lol.

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[hopscotchn9.livejournal.com]

my brother father and grandfather are all Davids, My cousin, unkle, and other grandfather are all Johns,
My first name is Patricia, both of my grandmothers, two of my aunts and three of my cousins are also Patricia. Now i have always gone by Ashley.. but I have an unkle that also goes by Ashley.

I HATE THIS!!!
My son does have the middle name David and his first name (Theodore) is after someone who is dead but he goes by Theo and the other Theodore went by Ted.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

My mom's side of the family, her step siblings and cousins in Germany, are like that. Everyone named their kids after themselves, and then their siblings, and then if they still had more, after their parents. There's like only 5 different names in that generation and branch of the family, people have to be called by nick names.

However, on my husband's side no one is named after someone living because they are Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish and it is considered bad luck. I like that tradition way better!

[morgainlefee.livejournal.com]

Yes! One of my professor's husband is from Eritriea (?)and they have something similar. She wanted to name their daughter after his mother and her mother and he said that was impossible. In his country naming someone after someone else is basically saying, "I hate you. I hate you so much I wish you were dead and I have your replacement right here."

[quite-rosie.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! It is so easy to make a cultural blunder without even trying. That would be a terrible thing for a mother-in-law to have to think!

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

...I wish we used that philosophy here. My mother-in-law has lovely first and middle names, but she's a terrible person. I also have the same first name as an aunt who is a terrible person; my mom probably would've appreciated this philosophy when I was a week old, trying to explain to my aunt that I was not named after her.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

For Eastern European Jews it's like tempting fate because what if the angel of death comes for the older person with the name but takes the younger one who is named after them by mistake.

[morgainlefee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it causes lots of confusion. James is a huge name in my family, held by my great-grandfather, grandfather, uncle, and cousin. We all live in the same county and the local pharmacy has accidentally given the wrong prescription to the wrong James Morgan...scary.

I think you can still honor family members by giving middle names or name variations.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Bad pharmacy! My husband and his dad have the same name now and go to the same clinic and pharmacy, so the staff always checks the birthdate to make sure they're looking at the correct file.

[morgainlefee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the James Morgan's have started to become very cautious after that snafu. It's most confusing because my grandpa and my uncle only use their middle initials to differentiate between them (James Frederick and James Kevin) but my cousin does the full James Jerome. Insanity.....

[quite-rosie.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of it, but it doesn't cause huge chaos in a house.

My dad is Randy and so is my brother. Honestly, not a huge deal. When he was little he went by Randy, Little Randy or Randy Jr., or just Junior (hehe my mom's friends still call him that, which is funny because he is all into weight lifting and jiu jitsu [sp?])

Now that he's older, the only thing is when the phone rings, he has to ask which Randy the person wants. And they think it is hilarious, but theh again, they are nerds :-D.

My husband is James and is dad is too. His dad went by Jim his whole life, and my James goes by James. Tada! I also babysat for an Anthony who's dad went by Tony.

[countesscain.livejournal.com]

If I had been born a male, I would have been named Randy after my father too.

[luvahs.livejournal.com]

I don't like it just for the fact to me it seems like you didn't name your child, somebody else did

[arbus.livejournal.com]

my brother and father are both chris owen, but it didnt cause much of a problem since our dad didnt live with us.

my boyfriend and his father are both john jude, but his dad goes by john and my boyfriend has gone by jack his entire life.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a fan. I have a friend whose name is a combo of her parents' first names. It works for her but I wouldn't do it.

SO and I are planning to pass down his (and his father's) middle name to our future son. I think its reasonably tributary, but without going the whole Jr. route. There are just so many other ways to do that.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

We have two cases of this in my family. My dad is a Paul Jr., and got stuck with the nickname "Little Paul" when he was little, so when he and my mom started dating in high school, she said it was mortifying to have to call the house and ask for Little Paul. LoL But it did get confusing in a bad way when my grandfather got into some financial trouble, and everything that didn't have a "Sr" on it was first attributed to my dad instead. (And, no, he's no longer called Little Paul).

My dad's brother is Michael Anthony and he and my aunt named their first son Michael Vincent (the middle name after my aunt's dad). And since my uncle has gone by Mike most of his life, we call the little one Michael, and it's not really confusing at all. My grandmother (his mom), is really the only one that calls him Michael instead of Mike.

Personally, I don't think it's so bad as long as there is an alternative name/nickname they could be called to differentiate them from the person they are named after. I think it's nice to an extent, but I'd probably only use family names as middle names on my own future children.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I'm not keen on it, just because it would be confusing to have two people with the same name in the same house. That's the same reason I'm not keen on naming kids things that sound similar.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i think it's okay. i'm really not into the whole jr. or III or anything like that. i think making the mother or father's first name into their child's middle name is okay though.
i plan on passing my middle name down to my first daughter.

[xmeganx327x.livejournal.com]

My fiance wants to name our son, if we have one, with the same name as him. Norman. Its his dad's name also so its a family thing. I secretly hate the idea b/c it seems like an adult name, not for a little baby and b/c there are no nice nicknames to use. His parents called him Normey or NEM for his initals ... ugh!

So i am praying this baby is a girl!

[shortbutfast.livejournal.com]

i don't like it and wouldn't do it.

[countesscain.livejournal.com]

I don't like it. I think people should be creative.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

If it's done in the extreme, I don't like it at all. (For instance, a family of 4 I once knew had exactly two names between them; even the parents' middle names were passed on to the children. I always thought the parents were uncreative bordering on stupid, and had large egos.) If it's a few family names, I don't mind it so much; there are a lot of Mary Louises on my mom's side of the family, but none of them have been siblings or mother/daughter relationships. I might consider naming my child after one of my parents, but not after Hubby or myself.

[a-minor-third.livejournal.com]

I think it's stupid. There are so many names out there and they use the same thing over and over again? Nah, that's pretty lame.

[aimeewins.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who is Donald Melvin III... and he's 18, and if his dad is still alive when he has kids, his first son has to be Donald Melvin IV...
sometimes the names don't keep up with the times, really.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I don't like it. It's too confusing.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

I hate it. I think it is ridiculous to have to name a child after yourself. They're still your child whether you name them junior or not.

My sisters and I (and my cousin) all share the same middle name as my mother and while I hate my middle name and the fact that it isn't my own and I have to share it with my sisters, I can accept using your name as a middle name for your child.