Weird?

[Quasilulu]

My friend is expecting her first baby, a girl. Her OH has 2 previous children. He eants to call them a combination of their names eg Michael and Kayla Michaela. Not that but hope you get my drift. My friend is wondering if this is weird or not. I personally think it is a bit. Your views?

[MattDillonsPants]

Very, very silly.

Like those houses you see called things like "Joantom" and "Salsteven"

Naff, naff, naffity naff.

[manicinsomniac]

I think it would depend on the what the 'mixture name' is. Michaela is a perfectly normal kind of name so I think it's fine. If it ended up being something more like Renesmee then no!

[honeysucklejasmine]

Michaela is a perfectly normal name. Is that what it would be?

[FellOutOfBedTwice]

You actually could legitimately put mine and my husbands names together and make Flora. I wouldn't name a child that but it's a legitimate name at least. However if my name was Stacey and his name was Ronald and our potential child's name was Roncey or Stanald... Well that's a different kettle of fish and shit!

[mouldycheesefan]

Michaela is a fine name by itself but sure Michael, kayla and Michaela sounds naff

[IWILLgiveupsugar]

It's not just his baby though - does he not think his partner might like a say in the name of her own baby,rather than having some possibly weird combination?

He needs to get a grip, although I do see that he is possibly trying to include his kids in the arrival of a new half sibling. If I was the exw I wouldn't like this much either.

[AHintOfStyle]

I think OP means he would then have 3 children called:
Michael
Kayla
Michaela

Which is a bit weird no?

[Veterinari]

Bayreuth the new baby deserves a name of her own

[mouldycheesefan]

Even worse if name is spelled Mike-kayla

Surely his new partner doesn't want her child called a combination of thr names of his children with his ex partner?

[HighDataUsage]

Bit Jeremy Kyle style....

[OnceMoreIntoTheBleach]

Horrible idea IMO on many levels as already stated by PP, but apart from all that, I personally think babies deserve their OWN name and identity.

We lost a significant family member when I was heavily pregnant with DS and lots of people asked if we would name him after that person. It was a resounding 'no'. I vetoed the idea of family names with both my DCs from the outset.

They are new people who deserve a name that is all theirs, IMO.

Each to their own though, of course.

[Quasilulu]

Thank you! I've shown her this and she's going to show her OH. She's also said I can share the names so Stephen Melanie and Stephanie...which she dislikes anyway. Sorry chap...You're outnumbered 😂

[WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant]

Stephenie in its own is quite sweet.

No way with Stephen though!

[SerenityReynolds]

Agreed it's a weird thing to do. The new baby is an individual in her own right. Not an amalgam of her half-siblings!

[GunShotResidue]

I think it would be quite sweet as a middle name. DD has similar, a mix of her Grandmothers names (which is also a real name).

I love family names but would only use them as middle names. As a pp said, babies should have their own first name.

[LadyAntonella]

I guess maybe he's trying to make his existing DCs feel included(?) which is understandable, but I don't think it's a great idea myself. I agree with pps re babies having their own identity. I know someone who was going to name their DS after their DD's favourite toy. Thankfully her favourite toy is a teddy bear so the DS would have been Teddy which is a nice name anyway. Could just have easily been My Little Pony . They went with something else completely in the end.

[1horatio]

I think that's a bit odd... But we are going to use my mum's initial for the 2 middle names (the middle names will start with the same letter), so I'm probably not the one that should say this is riduculous
As long as it's a real name it's ok imo.

[diddl]

Maybe the siblings could choose a middle name to feel included?

[elor11]

Very silly. Maybe would be nice as a middle. But come up with something yourself. Not a combination of his ex's fav names.

[AwfulBeryl]

I love the name Stephanie, although that's completely irrelevant. I don't really like the idea of having children with similar sounding names and Stephanie is way too similar to Stephen.

[Stripedduvet]

Stephanie is one of my top girls names.
But if I had a son called Stephen already I wouldn't call my daughter Stephanie. That's weird. Though I know a family with kids called Jack and Jackie!! Lot of people do these things!

[julfin]

I agree it's weird.

Now that we've all agreed on that, please can we turn the conversation to what our children would be called if we combined our own names with our partners'? Mine would be Jett - which has a certain ring to it.

[Quasilulu]

Ha ha Julfin! Mine would be Embert! Awful!

[Oysterbabe]

At least it's a real name. But agree with others- no.