Would it be weird to name your ds a version of your name

[FattyMcChubster]

That's it basically.
I know a lot of men name their ds after themselves but why if you gave your son the masculine version of your name? Is that odd?

Like, simone-Simon

That might not be my best example but don't want to out myself!

[FattyMcChubster]

What not why
Stupid fat fingers

[LoriGrimes]

I know a little Nigella named after her dad. Unfortunately he left a few months after she was born.

[LoriGrimes]

Ignore what I just said. It's not what you meant is it?

[savoirfaire]

I was very nearly called the female version of my dad's name. Fortunately at the last minute my mum saw sense, put her foot down and I got something else. As a teenager I had a massive falling out with my dad and we have never, really, recovered our relationship. For that reason, I would never do this. I would utterly hate having 'my dad's name' and would have been very aware of it and I'm sure very uncomfortable when we were going through that phase particularly (and let's face it, difficult relationships between parents/children during teenager-dom are hardly rare!).

[FattyMcChubster]

Sav, would it have been different of it had been your mums name?

[savoirfaire]

Well in my case it might have, because I got on well with my mum. I know many girls who had mega fall outs (short, or longer term) with their mums too. Teenage girls are just as likely to have volatile relationships with either parent IME.

[BabyStone]

How about changing it slightly like Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith has done with their 2 children. They have Willow after Will and Jaden after Jada. I quite like the idea for myself but seeing as I have a unisex name and named after a male relative, it wouldn't really work! :(

[MrsFrederickWentworth]

Why not?

Frederica/ Freddy
Thomasina, Tamsin / Thomas
Josephine/ Joseph
Joanna, Jane, Jenny/ John
jaquetta, jacqueline/ jack, James
Willa/William
Louisa/ Louis, Lewis
Nicole, Nicola/ Nicholas
Augusta/ Auguste, Augustus
Pascale/Pascal
Clementina, Clemency/Clement


I think it is a lovely idea.

[FattyMcChubster]

Ooh mrs f you've got it!
I've just never heard of mum-son names, it's normally dad-child names isn't it?

[MardyBra]

Yes. But I don't like Dad-child names either. I'd rather just think of something original rather than going for a mini-me.

I find the Will/Willow/Jada/Jaden thing a bit disturbing for some reason.

I know it's a personal preference, but fwiw you will find some people who are a bit freaked.

[SpecialAgentTattooedQueen]

My mum has the female version of my grandfather's name, and all my aunts have Mary as one of their middle names and my uncles have Patrick as one of theirs...

[FattyMcChubster]

Hmm. We do have a 'family' name which every bugger seems to have and even in my closest family try all have names starting with the same letter apart from me!
It alwys sounds odd when outsiders start asking questions...

I do however love this boys name.

[IsThisAGoodIdea]

I'd love to name my DD a lengthened version of my name but am worried people would find it narcissistic. Such a lovely name though.

Imagine Julie calling her daughter Juliette. For example. Not my name but would you find it weird?

[curlyclaz13]

slightly different but we have chosen a name with the same meaning as OH for a middle name. still feels like naming after but not exactly. Also we would have ended up with omg as initials if we used exactly the same name !

[WhiteBirdBlueSky]

I think it's a bit of an odd thing to do.

[nooka]

I think it is a bit self indulgent, but I'd think the same the other way around (e.g. I thought it was naff that Nigel Lawson called his daughter Nigella) and think that parents who call their children the exact same name as them are both self indulgent and unimaginative!

However I think it depends on how closely the names are related as there are quite a few names (esp. girls names) that are derived from other names but were you wouldn't immediately think that the child was called after a parent. Like a father called James with a daughter Jacqueline sounds very different to a Paul/Paula type combo.

[HappyAsASandboy]

Our children have one of our names each as a middle name. DS has DH's middle name as his middle name, and DD has my first name as her middle name.

Sometimes I wonder if it is a bit odd, but we have nice names and they make nice names for the children

I think it used to be a lot more common for children to take older generations names (mums, dads, aunties, uncles) and I quite like the sense of family.

[mathanxiety]

I wouldn't consider Julie - Juliette weird at all, or any names on MrsFrederickWentworth's list or similar.

However, if a name was one you would hardly ever hear used for a boy or girl and if it stood out as a near copy of a father or mother's name then I would wonder if they couldn't have been a bit more original.

[mathanxiety]

Family names are still very common in my family -- it helps that it's a huge family, with previous generations having 10+ children so there are many names to choose from.

[ghislaine]

I have done this, although not on purpose and it's not very obvious. (More like Rupert/Roberta than Simon/Simone.) No-one has ever commented on it.

[milkymocha]

I have the female version of my dads name and live it although we both have the same nickname that gets confusing for DP.

[FattyMcChubster]

Thing is, I love the name and had to have it pointed out that it's the masculine version of my own name

So it's not that I would use it as in naming after myself, only that I love it and it just happens to be similar? But that's a pretty long story to get into!

[dufflefluffle]

Leah/Leo?
Thea/Theo?

I don't think it's be too weird