Naming a child after a parent

[OVienna]

Just to be clear - I mean a living parent as opposed to honouring someone who had passed away. And I mean first name (pretty much.)

I think of this as relatively rare in the UK and to express dissatisfaction that it didn't happen to be quiet self-centred/obnoxious/possibly borderline narcissistic.

AIBU? Or is it sort of normal for grandparents to hope this might happen.

I can see being a bit cross if the other grandparents' names were chosen, but that is not the case here.

My DS(10) has two middle names, one of which is his Grandads (My DF) and one which is his Great Grandads (My GD).

His 1st middle name is fairly common, but his 2nd one isn't and we love it.

Incidentally, my children each have 3 names- 5 out of the 6 has some family connection. They both really like this- and enjoy having the connection with pretty scattered family members.

My FIL didn't visit DS for 18 months after birth as he was so upset that we hadn't passed on his name. (DS had my surname as a middle name instead). It just reinforced the fact that FIL is a jackass.

From the sounds of it, we need a bit more context.

We gave our son my Dad's name as a middle name. My Dad is entirely indifferent to his grandchildren and I sort of regret it, even though my son quite likes his middle name and it goes nicely with the first name and blah blah blah.

Just think of the middle names that my husband would have vetoed we could have had. Tarquin! Atticus! Crispin! Lysander!

I was never lobbied. We just used my dad and dhs dad namr as middle names.

I wanted to use dads as a first namr but dad hates his own name so we had it has a middle one.

Oh and the reason i wanted my dad and fils name is because thry are both amazing people.

All three children have family names for first and middle names (some are female or Welsh/ Scottish versions).
One grandparent hates it (but then my exMIL hates that I never had a boy with my exh i suspect so nothing i could do was right).
Another grandparent was really over the moon but had never said anything.
My parents were more pushy saying grandparent would have been so pleased etc.
I changed all the names a little (except one) so it's a bit of family connection but also clearly "new" for them.