to think it is odd to call your children your name

[CheeseEloise1]

Found it very strange when my brother and his wife named their daughter after wife's name. She is Mexican so put it down to tradition. They are about to have a second child and are going to call it my brother's name.
I can't say anything to them but find it very odd that daughter has mother's name and so has father's name. What would a third child be called? AIBU to find the whole thing a bit odd?

[MrEBear]

It's debatable chicken & egg. Where did the Clan (family) name come from was there a Donald who was the original / first clan chief?

To the person who mentioned McKenzie being used as a first name traditionally in Scotland the Mc would be dropped.

[Baconyum]

Just a wee note mac does mean son of but, Gregor, Donald etc were surnames originally not forenames. So eg

Macdonald means son of the family (clan) Donald not son of the person Donald.

[Andrewofgg]

Interesting: Jewish people do not normally do it except for a posthumous son or a daughter whose mother died in childbirth. You don't name a child after any living rellie. In fact some Jewish people won't name a child after a deceased relation of one parent if the other has a close living relation of the same name.

[TroysMammy]

My Grandparents had 12 children, 6 of each. None of them were called after their parents even though each child had 2 or 3 names.

However a couple of their 32 grandchildren had the name David in their names and one girl had Grandmother's name in hers, although thankfully we call her by her second name.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

The Scots have done that for centuries.

[user1465023742]

Odd, but not as odd as the silly American custom of giving people surnames as first names. McKenzie, Jackson, etc. That I do find ridiculous.

[whois]

Odd.

My friend is named after his dad and I think that is strange. But to clal both siblings after mum and dad is even worse!

[hahawoteva]

I was named after both my parents. My first name after my mothers first name and my middle name after my fathers middle name.
I was brought up using my middle name.

I don't know if it's a family thing , my siblings are known by their first names but my grandmother was know by her 3rd name and one of my cousins is known by their middle name.

They did try using my first name when I was around 8 yrs old but it was confusing. It was also a right pain as both my mother and myself had the same initials as well.

I dropped my first name by deed poll several years ago as it caused quite a bit of confusion especially with medical appointments and paperwork for work ( I got fed up having to explain why it was actually me , where paperwork said slightly different).

Much easier now .

Ds1 first name is not after anyone, middle name is after my husbands first name. Ds2 first name again is not after anyone, middle name is after my fathers first name.

[LordoftheTits]

I really dislike it but can't get myself too worked up about it. One that does annoy me though is my mum's cousin. He is the fourth John SameMiddleName Surname, then he had two children called John (of course) and... Jack

[itfcbabe]

All my children have 2 middle names,1 from my family 1 from DH family.
1 of my daughters has my name as her 1st middle name and she loves it.

[steppemum]

my dh is dutch, and apostrophe's system is still really common.
It is also common to use both grandmothers' or both grandfathers' names
But then they have often a nickname which is what they will be called every day.

so dd will be named:

Whilhemena Theodora
Her 'called' name will be
Lisa.

It is often a mish mash - so Caroline Louise will be called Carry-Lou or Carla, or Carolise.

In dh family there is a tradition of naming the eldest son which alternates names through the generations. Trouble is one name is veyr old fashioned and the other quite nice, ds struck lucky so we used the nice one.
eg:

Alfred
Jack
Alfred
Jack

etc

[Beeziekn33ze]

A matriarchal GM insisted that all GD should have her name, Jane, as a middle name. All GS, what middle name did they get? Not GF's name but the nearest to hers - James!!
Jewish friend told me her parents followed the custom of giving a baby the name of a deceased GP, sort of. The family had recently lost GPs Isadore and Bella, my friend was very happy to be named Isabel.

[hellsbellsmelons]

My Exh has his dad's first name and a male version of his mum's as a middle name.
Always worked OK. He was the 1st born.
I just always called his dad 'Name' Senior!

[AliceThrewTheFookingGlass]

I know someone who has recently named their child a combination of her and her partners name. I've changed the name slightly but think along the lines of Gemma+Tyler= Gem-Ty. I think that takes naming your kid after you to the extreme.

[Pinkheart5915]

My DH has his dad's name I think it's sweet. When he had ds we called him DH name but the other way around so he had DH middle name as a first name and dh first name as a middle name.

[DownInFraggleRock]

Oh, I like apostrophe's system too! My dad and Granda had the same name, which is also my married surname! So DS1 and DS2 would be similar to Mark Mark and Mark Mark II

[trafalgargal]

I'd rather have a traditional name than something outlandish (but the parents think it's original ).........or even worse a perfectly good name spelt "alternatively" (I usually assume the parents are illiterate and didn't know how to spell it correctly rather than thin king they are koowl

[CheerfulYank]

Reveal it depends on where you are. In some areas it's a very upper crust thing to do.

Cuppa I did that :o I'm Megan and my daughter is Maggie. It's because it was our favorite name though, not after myself.

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

Talking of James. I used to know a bloke called Jimmy who had about four sons, named after cognates of the name James things like - Jago, Jacques, Hamish, Jamie.

[TheRollingCrone]

I know a woman whose three dd (including a set of twins) ALL have her name as a middle name. I just find it odd.

[areyoubeingserviced]

In some cultures it's quite normal to do this

[skivvywoman]

My aunt and uncle called there 2 kids after themselves I've always thought it was weird

[lurkingfromhome]

My mum's neighbour's dad was called James. Her brother was called James after the dad. She married a James, who was called after his dad, another James. Neighbour and husband had a son. Yes! Called him James. Son & his partner had a baby last week. Do I even need to say what they have called him?

Dear god, people. Show a BIT of imagination ...

[specialsubject]

my partner is the fifth in a line with the same first name and surname - it was a tradition until relatively recently. Family history research reveals on my side that many people are named for grandparents.

top tip (He says) is don't do it - two of you in the house with the same name is a pain, and then it is a lifetime sorting things out because he usually goes by his middle name but all his ID is in his first name. He answers to either now!

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

Buttfuck Nowheresville, USA.