Would you ever name your baby after yourself?

I have relatives in France and the son is named after dad and daughter is named after mum. As I have grown up with this, it doesn't seem weird. They just have nicknmes. Also, i know someone who remarried and her new husband had the same name as her son so they used nicknames. There's always ways to avoid confusion. I think it was pretty common up until a few generations ago. My mum did some research on our family tree and there were loads of examples of this in girls and boys. If you've got a nice name, why not?

DD is called Catherine. (catey)
I am called Catherine. (Anne) dont ask
My DGM was called Catherine. (Irene)
Her Aunt was called Catherine. (Cathy)
Her GM was called Catherine.
And so on...
The surnames change, so there isnt really a problem. Although before DGM passed on, I was occasionally told that I look good for a 65yo!

I'm not keen. My DP Is a 5th generation William - I had to fight for our DS1 to have his own name and upset the family but glad as I want himto be individual and know I put thought into his name not just name him William because 5 generations ago someone else called their son William.
It's not that common for girls but no not a fan of it really. Could use your name as a middle name to carry it on?

I know somebody who named both their kids after mother and father and gave her other daughter her name as a second name.So Tim and Anna twice and then Rosanna.Then to make matters worse they then named another daughter the same name as their sils daughter.Wouldnt have been so bad except they both had the same surname as well.

It gets really confusing in that house.

We are considering using of DH's middles names a first name if we have a boy - but like one of the nicknames, and may use our dad's middles names as child's middle names.
for a girl, might use grandparents names/middle names as middle names.

Not quite a direct answer to original post - but similar.

Think it's rather narcissistic to give DCs your first names as their first names - it's not as if there's a shortage of lovely names out there! But just about permissible if there's some long-standing family tradition.

You are right about problems with post etc....in later life too!

As a middle name, it's ok, but I think it is really bad form. It makes me cringe and I judge people who do this, harshly.

I think it's less bad if you are Italian or Spannish etc. I keep harking back to that twat on One Born Every minute called Richard. His wife had just given birth and he got a sulk on because she didn't want to call the baby Richard after him and his father (ugh). Poor woman conceeded to "Richie".

I love DH's name: Tim, which I know is loathed on MN. I love it, it was my favourite boys' name, but we just had to keep it as a middle name, unfortunately.

Dd4 has my name as a middle and if dc 5 is a boy it will have dh name as a middle. Family tradition and I think our names are lovely.

My DD has my middle name as her first name. Me and DH just really like the name and it's meaning. MN jury thought it was a nice idea at the time. Draw the line at giving kids their parent's first names as their first names though.

No dp is named after his dad and it's been a problem at times, especially when he moved out of the family home and the council tryed to charge us ct for both property's. Then after his dad died they refused to get it into their heads that dp was still alive.

Also trying to figure out which name works both backward and forwards - Jellycat - please tell us!!

I once met a woman called Gilllian (sounds like a bad rhyme) who called her sons Giles and William to sound like her name.

I think Rachel is a lovely name, I'm unashamedly bias

It didn't occur to me to name dd it tbh although interestinly when I mentioned naming her (when sex was unknown) after him he refused saying he was named after his dad and didn't want that association for his ds but it was announced that his possible ds with new woman WOULD be named after him...dont know what changed, his dads still a prick like father like son

Fine as a middle name, don't like it when the exact same name is used.

Our old next door neighbours named their son the same as the dad. They also used to have loud sex. It was very odd to hear the mum late at night through the bedroom wall moaning 'Come on Joe, keep going, that's soooo good Joe!', then the next morning shouting 'Come on Joe, keep going, that's so good' as the son cycled up and down the street .... I just would find the same name in such different contexts very odd!

MrsKwaHaHaHaAzii Snap on that one. I know a Noriko, her husband is Nori-something and the son is Nori. So they are all known as Nori in some form. How confusing is that? (It also means seaweed, but I digress)

I once knew a family where the Mum, Dad and first son all had the same shortened version of different names. It was odd.

Also knew another family with four children where all of them had the same first inital - imagine what post was like in that house! Bit like the 19 kids and counting family. Madness!

I would avoid having same name or even similar name or even same initials - it just gets too confusing. And if you get into family trees it gets really confusing when the same name appears generation after generation.

No not our first names.

But I might give dc's my or my dp's middle name but that's only because I really like our middle names. I wouldn't do it for the sake of it.

I love my name, I would use it for a DD if it wasn't my name but it is, so no!

My ex's sister was named after her mother, I didn't realise until I told him I thought it was weird! Plus it was an old fashioned name and the sister wasn't even the eldest daughter.

Erm, no. Much too narcissistic.

I would prefer for my daughters to choose my name or DHs name as a middle name (maybe) for their DCs in the future. That's lovely, as it would be something they'd decide to do based on their feelings for us (I'd not sway them into it, btw!)

I guess it made more sense when people had huge families - you named the firstborn son and daughter after the parents in the knowledge there'd be plenty of opportunities for imagination further down the line... or a younger one when you'd run out of ideas!

My middle name is my mum's first name (and a family name on both sides) - DD also has it as her middle name, but after her granny rather than after me...