DS having same name as his Daddy?

Dad names are more often than not cringey and embarrassing for children. All names apart from very, very, few names come in cycles. People always think wtf did you call your child x then it becomes apparent when dads name is mentioned.

I really loathe it when people do this, I find it egotistical at best. It’s such a strange thing to do. Your child isn’t an extension of you, they deserve their own identity.

My dB has the same name as my df. Well, it’s the English version of dfs name. Very bloody confusing with the post and phone calls. I wouldn’t.

I wouldn't do it.. Use a similar name or use for the middle name

No, no, no

My sister and I have a diminutive versions of our relatives names and thats bad enough. I am named after my nan and she has been dead 15 years yet my family still get muddled sometimes and call me her name (i.e the full version).

There is also the fashion for names.

Some like say Derek haven’t made a comeback and sound ‘old’
Or there could be an association with some mad-man (Adolf anyone?) What happens then?
Others like Cody are more American imports but sound fresher and younger.

Names have to stand the test of time.

If you are in the U.K. there’s a big risk he’ll get called “Little X”, - which is shit. I went out with “Little Roy” his dad was “Big Roy”.

I agree with the majority view on here. I think the confusion re post etc would be annoying but not entirely insurmountable. But I think the lack of a sense of an identity of my very own would be horrid for me. I would hate to be named after a parent. Paradoxically, I’d also hate if my sibling was named after a parent - it seems like saying this one child (usually the eldest) is so special in their father’s eyes (or v occasionally the mother’s), that they get the very same name. It implies subsequent children are less special somehow.

Totally agree on Trump as an example of the kind of person I’d imagine does this! I can’t believe I’m saying this though but in fairness to him, his eldest daughter is also named after her mother which is either equal opportunities or double the ego - you decide (Ivanka’s real name is Ivana just like her mother, the -ka ending is an affectionate nickname).

We have our Baby's names chosen ready for when we conceive. Partners name will be Baby's middle name if it's a Boy

One of my uncles had the same first name as his father (my grandfather). What was odd about it was that he was the third son, not the eldest.

A friend of mine is the 7th. His dad is called "Bill" (name changed), and my friend was always "Billie" until he was about 25 and started going by "Bill" as well. It's not confusing when used in context, for the most part.

For me it would not be a good idea.

It may be a long way ahead, but I have seen it cause conflict with items of mail being delivered and opened by the older person, and the younger getting quite annoyed.

I suppose it might be handy for a nosy Mum....

Use his dads name as a middle name instead

Hi maima that’s my comment in bold, we knew we were having a girl and it was the female form of my husband’s name that someone suggested so his aversion applies despite not exact name (and she has my second name, I didn’t change mine on marriage so we opted for mine for her so it would still not be the exact same name even if a boy). it would still recognisably be female form of his name and people would obviously have picked up on that and it was just the idea of naming after yourself that felt odd and egotistical (to him). I asked the OP about naming a female child after herself as she mentioned she wanted to name her son after her husband and not whether he actually did so I wondered whether she would like it in her shoes.

Incidentally I really like my name too but wouldn’t (didn’t!) use it for my daughter as didn’t feel right to me for a number of reasons including my husband’s own reasoning.

It's pretty lazy, isn't it?

Like you simply CBA to look round for an individual name for that individual little person, so just went with the first thing you saw?

We only have the same initial and surname and the post is a pain
Letters come fior Mr J Crowther.
We don't know if it is for John , Jordon or Jonathan!

Unless there is an identifying mark on the envelope it's a case of first home opens it!!

It makes sense though I mean would you name your daughter the same as you?!

I probably would. I love my name. It's a family name, means something nice and also has some rather great and Versatile nickname opportunities. And it's also genuinely rare without being weird (there's a saint, some mentions in classic literature etc)...

I don't think we will actually use it but I absolutely would. Or at least a version of the name.
Using it as a middle name is however sort of non-negotiable.

I'm also in favour of using the male version of my name (as a first name. if the LO is indeed male.)

However: the child won't have my surname. So it's not like we'd have exactly identical names (which is too much imo).

Does the son also have his daddy's surname? If yes: this seems imo very excessive. Not due risk of confusion but because a name is a part of a person's identity (and your son obviously will not have the same identity as his father).

That's however simply my personal opinion. I understand that this is a personal preference and that are cultural differences etc.

Using the name as a middle name is however nice.

You could always use the more modern '2.0'

Someone asked my husband this when I was pregnant and he was vehemently opposed to child having his name, aside from practicalities, he thought it was strange, egotistical and not nice for the child to feel like a trophy or to not have have their own full identity in a sense. It makes sense though I mean would you name your daughter the same as you?!

Benefits: None that I can think of,
Disadvantages: everything already listed.

Poor child.

It's not confusing at all.

It is, on the contrary, unambiguously egotistical and silly.

Unless your husband is an 18th century aristocrat or something.

It is very egotistical & makes a family look very unequal - to me it implies a weird sort of ‘man of house’ followed by ‘first born male’ of the house etc. I can’t explain why I feel that way but when someone commented Trump did this - I think that just reaffirmed my view

It is very egotistical & makes a family look very unequal - to me it implies a weird sort of ‘man of house’ followed by ‘first born male’ of the house etc. I can’t explain why I feel that way but when someone commented Trump did this - I think that just reaffirmed my view

I don't like it, children deserve their own name and identify. If you like it so much use it as a middle name but let them be their own person