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Naming after parents

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Cupofyorkshireteaandrichtea · 24/06/2022 08:26

I would like to honour my parents in some way but I don’t actually like their names much. Has anyone had this dilemma ?

I got round it with DS by giving my maiden name as his middle name, or a variation (so like John for Johnson) but not sure for another baby.

<outs self> names are Anita and elwyn

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toastofthetown · 24/06/2022 08:37

That’s what middle names are for! Claudia Elwyn Anita (or whatever name you like) sound fine to me and gives the advantage of the child having their own first name. We plan to give our daughter our grandmother’s names as middle names and while neither are names we would have chosen in a vacuum, the meaning of them is more important.

People will say you can use Eliana (has the El from Elwyn and An from Anita) or similar, but if I were one of the parents, I really wouldn’t feel like that was named after me in any way (with the side effect of telling me you think my name is hideous). Could you ask them each to choose a name for her?

stormelf · 24/06/2022 08:35

All three of my children have my maiden name as a second middle name to honour my side of the family, is this something you could do?