To wonder why it's mainly boys that are given their parents name?

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By that I mean naming a boy Fred jr when Dad is Fred? I know a fair number of boys with their dads name but absolutely no girls with Mums name as a first name.
Not quite as random a thought as it sounds as someone I know has just done this with their son yet daughter doesnt have Mums name or any variant of Mums name.as either a first or middle name.

I agree it’s rare and I do think it’s a patriarchy thing, maybe mixed with an ownership thing as in who would know who the dad was if they didn’t have the same name where as if mum does most of the childrearing everyone already knows

I find it more odd when people don’t name the first boy after dad but do with future ones. My DB names his DS3 after him?!

That said a girl I went to school with has the same (rare but not youneeq) name as her mum and her brother had the name (rather dated) name as her dad. I mean really, could they literally come up with no other names

It doesn't seem as common as it used to be but you're right OP, I've rarely heard of examples of female children being named after their mother. Not sure how common it is outside of Western culture. In Judaism for example, specifically Ashkenazic Judaism, it is not the custom to name a child after a living relative.

My son has my maiden name as his first name. (and its not a particularly 'surnamey' name) If he was a girl he would have had a different version of my first name.