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Name a boy after his Dad..?

29 replies

SunSoakedStone · 02/04/2011 20:21

Anyone else done this? Is it really as confusing as I imagine it to be?

I do like the name and DH dead set on the idea (obviously).

Would use a nickname day to day, but fairly sure he would drop this nickname as he got older.

Still, feels slightly unimaginative!

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shmoz · 02/04/2011 21:11

Don't see a problem with it, especially as you both like the name anyway.
Give him a different middle name, this gets around the post issue.

Cattleprod · 02/04/2011 21:10

I hate this tradition. So unimaginative and frankly arrogant on the father's part.

A surname is for passing on the family name, maybe a middle name to honour a loved relative. A first name is intended to give your son his own identity, not to resign him to a life in your DH's shadow.

sweetkitty · 02/04/2011 21:06

Not keen either, we have say John Smith in our family 3 generations, so grandpa John Smith got called Old John, Dad Big John and son Wee John. Wee John is well into his forties and 6 foot and still gets called Wee John, Wee John had all girls so never got to have Wee wee John Smith!

DS has DPs name as a middle name, it was DSs Grandads name as well so a family name.

notanumber · 02/04/2011 21:03

No, absolutely not.

As a teacher, whenever I see the name Junior, I wonder why his parents bothered to have a child if they can't even be fucked to think of a name for him.

It ss the least imaginitive thing you could possibly do. Seriously, there are millions of name out there - give him one that's his own, for pitys sake.

Also, the privacy issues for post will be a pain later on.