Would you ever name your baby after yourself?

Ha ha ha.
Dont want to out myself on this one!

Doesn't bother me in principle, DS has a mate named after is dad.

We gave DH's forename to DS3 as a middle name (Peter Pan reference, too). All the DC have family names.

However I was named after my mom & I changed my name to something totally different when I was 7yo. So let that be a lesson to you?!

It seems to be a thing in Scotland for boys to be given their Dads names. Not sure why.

oh yeah! thanks. BIT much 'L' for twins but nice for father and son I think.

Jenna / Jellykat: Leon and Noel? (Names of twin boys of a friend of a friend!)

No. I really loathe it.

I worked with some one called (for eg) Anne, and they had a daughter called Anna, which I always thought showed a real lack of imagination rather than egotism.

I know a lot more little boys with their dad's name as a middle name than I do girls with their mother's. Do you think that men's names tend to be more "traditional" and handed down?

Well, here in the States it's the done thing in some parts of the country. A lot of men who are the third (as in John Bartholomew Whitehall III or whatever) are called Trip or Trey as a nickname. And then initials, etc.

FIL and BIL (his son) are both James on their birth certificates, but FIL is always Jim and BIL is always Jamey.

I think it's nice if you can use a different nn...I suggested naming DS Andrew after DH and calling him Drew, as DH is always Andy, but he said no.

what boys name backwards is another boys name!?

jellykat!?

Only if it were a real family tradition.

Unlike the NCT friend who called their daughter a different form of their name without realising (Isobel and Elizabeth) and a neighbour who called their son the same but different spelling (Stephen and Steven). First example a bit amusing and not many people well, those without baby name books will realise; second example, IMHO, just weird

No I wouldn't give a insect my name

Awful for a first name, but I really like the idea of using a family name as middle name, although I prefer using a grandparents name rather than a parents name.

I have my middle name as a possible for a DD, but that's just because I really like the name and my middle name never gets used so there wouldn't be any confusion.

What about what Will Smith and Jada Pinkett have done, boy called Jaden (after mum) and girl called Willow (after dad)?

No, because a name is supposed to identify a person which isn't really achieved by calling 2 members of the family the same name...

No. DH & I were very careful to choose names for the DDs that no-one we knew had - I hated the idea that people would say things like, "oooh, you're all grumpy, just like the auntie you're named after" etc

DH did say that if we had a boy he would want him to "continue his family tradition" of giving the child his name as a middle name, but as that "family tradition" only started with his grandfather, I wasn't that fussed about continuing it. Luckily, we have never had to have that argument!

Ds1 is called after dh, who is called after his father, who is called after his father, and so on going back about 10 generations. It's just a family tradition that I wouldn't want to be the one to mess with.
We've avoided confusion by calling ds1 the Irish version of the name.

DON'T DO IT!!!

My DF named me after my DM and it's a nightmare. Not only is the name traditionally impossibly to abbreviate (we now both go by names derived from opposite ends of our Christian names) but growing up and as a young adult...
"Please may I speak to Ribena"
"Which one, mother or daughter?"
"Ribena Fiend"
"Yes I appreciate that, which one, mother or daughter!"
"Erm, which one is a driver"
"Both"
...you get the general gist right?!... DP and I will NOT be inflicting this on a DD.

I wouldn't do it as a first name, but as a middle name it's fine, I think.

Mind you I called DD after me - by mistake! I used an old form of my name that sounds completely different, and didn't realise it till a few months after I had her. No one has ever commented though, so it's not widely known.
(if I had realised I would have called her something different for her own identity IYKWIM)

I know a family who have 5 generations of a name, let's say Daniel. It went; old old Dan, old Dan, Dan, young Dan and wee Dan.

I only know of one woman who has called her dd the same name as her, it was quite a dated name and it just seemed a bit egotistical tbh.

If I had a ds, I probably would have used dh's name as a middle name. It's in my late dad's name and my db so that would have been quite nice. No way would I ever have used any if my names for my dds though even though I like them all.

I gave dd1 my middle name as her first name. It's a traditional, pretty name. It is also my Nan's and my cousin's middle name and was my great grandmothers first name, so I think of it as a family name rather than 'my' name.

I know a good few people that do this - Joseph - Joe, John - Jack, a few Catherines - Katies. Its not my cup of tea but its pretty common where I am. My 3 daughters have middle names after relatives - granny, great granny etc. My middle name is my Mums name.

Oddly enough DS2 has his dads name backwards, i never realised until he was @ 4 yrs old [thicko]

My ds1 has my maiden name (a boys name) as his middle name and my ds2s first name is Dhs middle name

Well.... maybe Alex?

Now I'm dying to know what your name is, OP!

If it's traditional (if DH was Richard Smith XII DS would be Richard) or a middle name I think it's a great idea.

If you're called Keith & Barry and want to have Keith Jr & Barry Jr running around it's a bit odd. But that could just be because I hate my name!