Naming little girls after their mothers.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I'm watching Intervention, and it sparked a question in my mind.

Often, we see little boys named after their fathers, and it is never questioned. What are your feelings on naming little girls after their mothers?

For instance, in this family on the show, the woman who is being interventioned-on, her name is Marie. Her mother's name is also Marie. She named one of her daughter's Clorinda. That daughter named her little girl Clorinda.

For some reason, it scrambles my brain a bit to see girls named after their mothers, and I don't know why! And yet, my middle child is named (first name) after his Father (different middle names, my exhusband is Christopher Paul, my child is Christopher Thomas Paul), and that doesn't seem odd to me at all.

ETA: To clear up any mix up, I meant solely referring to first names, not middle names! :)