Naming trends/traditions

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about naming tradtions/trends lately... and in my family there really isnt any. 

For awhile on my dad's side what they did with baby boys was give them a name, of their own, then for middle names they would have their father's and paternal grandfather's name so there's:
Ryan John Gerritt
Jason Peter Gerritt
Derek John Bernard
and after that the trend sorta died but it was almost revived with my little cousin who was named William Gerritt (after both the grandfathers)

My mom sort of did the same thing with me: i was named Jennifer after my Grandmother (Jenny-her original dutch name was Jantje) and then she wanted to name me after herself but 'Jennifer Joanne' doesnt have a nice ring to it so she kep the 'anne' and Jennifer Rose-Anne I became.

In my friend's family her parents gave both their kids the same initials as they have, so the parents names are June and Edward (Ted)  and then they gave the kids their middle names so they are Jennifer Mary and Eric Wade.

What are some naming tradtions your family has?

Comments

[arbus.livejournal.com]

my mothers middle name is marie, after her mother, whos name was mary. and my middle name is marie also. im planning on using marie as a middle name for a daughter someday.

my brother and i both like to make middle names have some kind of meaning, his daughters middle name is the same as her mothers middle name, and his sons middle name is our maternal grandmothers maiden name. i will be using marie, like i said, and also various other maiden names / first names of very close family members that my fiance and i have lost. i guess that really isnt a tradition. so the middle name marie is the only (unspoken) tradition really.

my brother is a junior, which isnt any kind of tradition.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

My family has too many diverse cultures and not enough children for their to be much of a naming trend or tradition. My husband's middle is his dad's middle name, though, and my FIL's mn is his dad's mn. I don't know how far back it goes, but Chris is stuck on it, so Christopher is the future mn of our first boy, if we have a boy. If we don't I wonder if he'll insist on Christina or something. Actually he'll probably insist on Rose, my name. That's ok with me, since my #1 right now is Susanna.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Susanna Rose sounds very pretty but is it redundant? I think that Susanna might mean rose or lily

[oh-snitch.livejournal.com]

My family is the descending line of Henry Clay, a statesman back in the 1800s, so my maternal Grandmother's name is Sharon Clay, and my little brother's name is Mitchell Clay. Strange thing about that, both my father's side and mother's side is related to Henry Clay! How weird is that?

Another tradition I'll continue is my paternal Grandmother's name, Ann. My name is Chelsea Ann, and I'll give my daughter that middle name as well.

[cherryrider.livejournal.com]

I know someone whos done the parent/kid same initial thing too.
I think its a good idea but never did it.
I don't have any naming traditions in my family.
But my daughter and I both have a y replacing i's in our names.
Not really a tradition but I like its theme.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

we don't really have cool traditions like that in my family. here are some names that run in my family, though: andrew, william, paul, and joy.

[scottish-diva.livejournal.com]

We don't really have any but i did start one by naming my son kade (David Walker) after two of his grandfathers David and Melvin (last name is Walker and i think it's nice for a boy's name).