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[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

What do you think of parents naming their children after them? For example, recently a friend Alexandra "Alex" Heather and her husband Louis called their daughter Lexi-Lou. I've also met a Joseph "Joey" Russell who's mummy is Josephine "Josie". But what raised this question is that Belinda"Billie" is planning on calling her child William Martin/Billie-Mae (sibs and step sibs are Conner, Connor, Morgan-Jean (f), Sarah-Lou, Charlie-Paige) and I can't decide what I think about it?

Also my at my twins playgroup there was a new family (unsure of age order but they're all under 4) Elsa "Elsie" Bryony, Olive "Olly" Maria, Harriet "Hattie" Anneliese, Mabel "May" Francesca. Mum (Francesca/Fran) was pregnant with Theodore Peter and Greta (possibly as a nn for Margaret or Gretchen, but likely just Greta) Lillian. Dad was "Eddie".

ETA: Just realised Alex spelled her daughters name Lexxie-Lou, not Lexi.. Sibs are Lucy-Lou, Luca-Lee, Louisa-Lee and cousin Lacey.

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[stellarichards6.livejournal.com]

i named my daughter emma kind of after her father emanuele, so....yeah.

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

See, I think it's really cute that your daughter is named after her father. The thing I wasn't sure about is the mother and the child going by almost exactly the same name. I'm also unsure how I feel about juniors so maybe that what my problem is.

[stellarichards6.livejournal.com]

oh! yeah, that's a bit weird, i agree.

[mscac.livejournal.com]

my dad's name is Howard and each time I was pregnant he insisted on Howina. yikes I thought, lol

[thelasttruth.livejournal.com]

I am very against naming my own children after someone who has been important in my life. Each child is their own unique person and should have their own unique name.

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

Lexxie-Lou? Really...

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

Yeah.. I didn't hate it when I thought it was Lexi.. This spelling makes my eyes hurt.

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

Someone I know named her daughter Sadie...but spelled it Sadieee. Yes. Three E's. At first I thought it was just her being a girl, and adding extra letters to draw it out on facebook. Nope. Her legal name is Sadieee.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

why...? :-/

Do you pronounce it with extra long eee at the end?

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

No, it is pronounced like Sadie.

Not a clue why she did it, other than to be "creative"

[mscac.livejournal.com]

that's terrible!

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

I hate hyphens in names. Just seems so superfluous. I feel like Luca-Lee and Louisa[my name!]-Lee are a bit of a mouthful. Particularly since Louisa has three syllables already.

I don't really mind naming after as these ones seem to be like the opposite genders and a bit more creative. I'm not like a huge fan of direct 'Jrs' if you will. One of my friends is called Robert and so is his dad. Mail and phone calls are confusing :p

I really like Olly for Olive and Greta Lillian is pretty :)

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

I think what threw me was that Belinda goes almost exclusively by Billie, so the child will have basically the same name Billy/Billie-Mae. I do like that she's using family names though. William/Billy/Billie is in honor of her grandfather and great grandfather as well as herself, Martin is to honor her brother and Mae is to honor an elderly deceased relative called Mavis.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I love the name Olive, but oh my god I would never call them Olly. That is such an ugly nickname for such a pretty name.

Hattie is pretty. Greta is nice. This group all has really old-fashioned, pretty names.

As for naming kids after yourself. I wouldn't do it with my name, but I'd probably do it with my (hypothetical) husband, if he had a nice enough name.

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

The nicknames don't seem to be used all that often and seemed to be more of a pet name. For example, my kids have played with the family for a couple weeks both at group and on play dates and I've only really heard Fran refer to them by nicknames occasionally. The nickname I noticed her using most is Elsie/Elsa B, but I assume thats because of my daughter Elsa and the confusion of them having the same name. At group, I've never heard any of the children be refered to by their nicknames.

[jexia]

A friend has an Olive who they call Ovvy.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I know a family where the grandma is Julie (they are Hispanic so its pronounced Yulie), the daughter is Yulie, and the granddaughter is Yulissa who goes by Yuli. Yes, all three generations go by Yuli(e).

Personally I am not a fan.

But I also don't like Jr's.

My boyfriends tradition is to give boys their fathers name as their middle name. I like this, as it honors the name but doesn't lead to duplication.

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

I like your boyfriends tradition too. I think it's really great to honour a friend or family member and have done so with my own children, I'd just prefer, in this scenario at least, to use a variant or to make the child a junior or to give them a completely different name.

[jessicamariek.livejournal.com]

Eh, my family does it - firstborn sons tend to be William *middle name varies* LastName - my brother is William LastName IV, and my boyfriend's family does the same thing with David. There's a bunch of nicknames and people going by middle names, though.

It did get confusing when my brother was little and my dad still went by Billy. One Billy had just gotten out of diapers and the other had just gotten a promotion - and it was very easy to confuse people on the phone. :)

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

The reason I'm not so sure about it, is that the baby will be going by almost exactly the same as herself. Had this baby been a junior then there would have been plenty of other nn options and the child wouldn't necessarily HAVE to be known by the same name as the mother. For that reason, I'm hoping the baby is a boy. To me, (as well as being a nicer, more complete name) William will age nicely and has plenty of nn options and because the childs a boy, it's somehow less weird for me.. I'm not sure why.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I don't mind... the women in my family have a naming tradition and I carry my mother's name. I have never minded and our personalities could not be ANY MORE different. It's never been annoying or weird and I've never felt pushed to be like my mother because we share a name. I am actually proud to share the names of two very important people in my family and that they are both female as it seems more common for guys to be named after family members but not all that common for girls to carry their mother's names.

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

See, if the baby was going to be called Belinda in honour of her mother then I'd think that was totally fine. I haven't got an issue with other people having juniors, but it's something I would never do.. Possibly because I've never really met a junior. I think the reason I find it weird is that it's her nickname shes reusing, rather than a variant of her own name/her actual name.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I am not a Junior o.o my name is Monica, my mother's name is Monica... I hate the idea of calling someone Jr.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I'm all for double names (having one myself) and I've heard hyphenated names are a growing trend in the UK, but four kids with hyphenated names in one family seems a bit much.

I do like the concept of naming a kid after a parent of the opposite gender, like Joseph for Josephine (or vice-versa). I'm not a fan of juniors, though---too egotistical for my taste. My maternal grandparents did it, though: the first child was James Francis, Jr., and the 11th (out of 13) was Anne Ellen Swetnam*, Jr.

*Swetnam is my grandmother's maiden name.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Belinda"Billie" is planning on calling her child William Martin/Billie-Mae

William Martin is ok, but Billie Mae is just awful. I would much rather she named the child Belinda if she was set on calling her Billie. That way the girl would have a full name to fall back on and could use a different nickname when it gets too confusing having two Billies in the family.

Lexxie-Lou, Lucy-Lou, Luca-Lee, Louisa-Lee...

This is a horrible sib-set. The names are waaaaaay to similar. Plus, that spelling of Lexi is atrocious.


I don't really like juniors or giving a child the same name as a close, living relative, especially a parent. My oldest sister is named after my father (Sheriden-Sharon), my other sister is named after my mother (Merry-Mary) and I'm named after my grandfather (Robert-Robin). I don't really like it at all.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

no. NO. one criterion for naming my babies is that I can't know anyone with the name. middle names are family names.

also, Gretchen is a nickname for Greta, not the other way around. the -chen is a diminutive, like -y in english.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Lexxie-Lou, Lucy-Lou, Luca-Lee, and Louisa-Lee.

Ugh. That almost sounds like a satire of this entire dumb (IMO) trend in the UK right now with all of this -Lou and -Mae stuff, as if the population of the UK just escaped from an episode of the Dukes of Hazzard. I thought it was cute when I saw the first one or two, but now it's just like an avalanche of treacle.

Out of curiosity, what is the reputation or stereotype (I can't think of the right word) of these kinds of names in the UK? Are they lower class, upper class, a particular culture, or just plain vanilla mainstream?

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

Well Belinda is a stay at home mum to Charlie-Paige (CP) and the bump. Connor visits during school holidays etc and the other kids are CPs dads kids. All three will have different dads and if it makes a difference she grew up in care.. So I suppose lower class.

Alex however has just left university and her husband has a good job etc. Lacey, Alex's niece lives with them (as the mother is deceased which is why I mentioned her in the post) and they also refer to her as Lacey Lou..

So I suppose there isn't a specific type of family that follows the trend.

[mscac.livejournal.com]

I was just about to ask what country you're posting from and then noticed your location is united kingdom. I am in America and couldn't help think, "how in the world did she end up in a setting with this many odd names". Interesting. Do these nick-names assigned to names originate in England (should I make this question a post)? On my grandmother's side, I always wondered how jim was a nickname for james and other similar name incidents in her family like I didn't realize until now that mae is short for martin. Her parents were of english/german decent if that makes a difference.