AIBU to think DD hasn't honoured me with DGD's name?

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Can I just say, I don't mind. I don't expect her to name her baby based on my name at all.

My name is Alison. She has named DGD Madison. That's fine. However, she keeps saying "she's Madison after my mum" and it's quite frustrating! That's also her reply to anyone who says anything negative about it.

AIBU?

I immediately thought Mad Alison too!

Do you go around doing daft things and saying "I'm mad me"?

It rhymes but it is a real stretch though your Dd is bonkers bless her

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That's wierd!

If the child was called Aligranddaughter I might possibly understand it but to take the '-son' part of a woman's name and give it to another female is a bit weird.

I think this has to be a case where it's the thought that counts.

They're totally different names that's hilarious.

Mind you, it's a foolproof way of preempting unfavourable reactions to an unusual names: "Meet Arbuthnot - we named him after my Dad, Norman".

I think it's cute! They are similar sounding names, but you won't have any confusion even with nicknames because it's the first part you'd use for nicknames and the second part which is the same.

How old is Madison if she has just been born now isn't the time but maybe in a few years gently point out that she is nuts not right

In the name honouring* sorry posted to soon

Oh leave the poor new mum alone!

Both names end -ison
I think that's enough to create a wee link.

I'd be touched that my daughter was prepared to say she wanted to honour me. That's lovely!

Yes, that's a new one.
" I'm going to name my baby after you but using a different name that has some letters and sounds in common. It'll be a bit of a convoluted association requiring a lot of laboured reaching and some suspension of actual logic but trust me, it's totally a tribute to you." Bless her heart.

Or maybe it's like a unique spelling thing like 'this is Alison spelt M-a-d-i-s-o-n' ?

I even looked up name meaninngs to see if they matched they don't

It's nice that DD wanted to chose DGD's name to honour you though isn't it? Even if she has done in a pretty discreet way .

I wouldn't have drawn the link between Madison and Alison either. In fact I decided against using my DM's name as a middle name for DD as neither her nor I liked her name, and the closest name I liked was one letter different - so not the same name. (Think Jenny & Jenna).

For me, you either use the name to honour someone or you don't - but that's just me. I do think the thought counts for something .

But then you only have to read baby name sites to see the convoluted lengths people go to to "honour" other people.

Like "my dad's name is John which is Sean in Irish and I knew this Irish wolfhound called Conan so we're calling our DS Conor and it's like totally honouring my dad lol"

'This is my new baby, Beatrice; she's named after my mum, Sharon'.

There are often posts on the baby names thread from people wanting to be told that this sort of thing is OK.

They want to name a child after someone, but they don't actually like the name (or to be charitable, sometimes it doesn't work with the other names). So they try to stretch the association to a name that they do like.