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Would it be awful to re-use a name for sibling?

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staylucky · 02/01/2012 22:06

As in when we had our son we presumed he would be our last and used all our fav names (two middle names) we are having another boy shortly and DH is absolutely set on DS1's first middle name but i'm a bit meh at the thought of nicking my poor boys middle name. Like we were just too lazy to think of anything else

[totally sick of looking at babyname lists emoticon]

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SoupDragon · 02/01/2012 22:07

I think it is a little odd.

fivegomadindorset · 02/01/2012 22:08

It didn't bother George Forman.

CatPussRoastingByAnOpenFire · 02/01/2012 22:08

DD is the 5th generation of Catherine at least! We have a photo of four of us together. George Foreman has 5 kids called George! Go for your life!

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rachel1970 · 02/01/2012 22:09

Not awful but a little unimaginative. Also, your ds2 might feel why he didn't get his 'own' names? Any others you both love?

fuzzpig · 02/01/2012 22:12

I think it's weird sorry OP's DH - there's hundreds of others to choose from!

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staylucky · 02/01/2012 22:13

Not as yet rachel... That's kind of the rub for me, feel like he needs his own little story.

Don't get me wrong I LOVE the name George by what kind of madman would you be to name all five of your boys the same??

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fivegomadindorset · 02/01/2012 22:15

I know, I think he had the idea that if his brain got totally addled by boxing at least he would remember what his boys were called, seeing as his grils all have different names, I guess he is not to bothered about them

jellybeans · 02/01/2012 22:17

I know a few families with children sharing the same first name. All were known by their middle name in general and full name formally.

I personally wouldn't do it as would feel like taking something of a childs own. Unless it was for family reasons etc.

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staylucky · 02/01/2012 22:20

I wouldn't use the same first name, DH wants to use DS1's middle name as a first name for DS2.

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Acanthus · 02/01/2012 22:22

The poor boy will just wonder why he didn't get his own name. It'll piss him right off when he's older.

catsareevil · 02/01/2012 22:22

Your DS2 may feel that there was a lack of thought if he doesnt get his 'own' name.

SoupDragon · 02/01/2012 22:25

What's the name?

Nagoo · 02/01/2012 22:27

Really, think a bit harder.

A few people do it, but really, there are a lot of names.

BrikSchittHaus · 02/01/2012 22:28

Please don't do this, similar things have happened in my family, especially as the chap who's middle name it is prefers to be called by his middle name.

Think Henry Alexander for person 1, and Alexander James for person 2.

Causes no end of drama especially as they're fairly close in age.

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staylucky · 02/01/2012 22:28

Ernest. Which I LOVE but chose as a middle for a reason.

You guys have backed me up, I love you all! Now back to the goddam lists...

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Oneofthechildlessones · 02/01/2012 22:32

Someone I knew kind of did this - she gave her 2nd son her 1st son name as a middle name in case the 1st son died - they would still have a bit of him in the 2nd. There was nothing wrong with the 1st son.

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staylucky · 02/01/2012 22:34

and

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krustyloaf · 02/01/2012 22:34

He might feel like you couldn't be arsed but alternatively he might like it as a 'how funny/lazy are my parents' story (endearing emoticon)
Also you could just elaborate that if you had had more sons that they would have been given his middle name as their first name... HTH

CecilyP · 02/01/2012 23:31

My mother's middle name was her next sister's first name. I thought it was odd but, apparently, that kind of recycling was more common in those days. Personally, I would try to find something new that you both like.

OvO · 02/01/2012 23:43

My DS3's first name is my DS1's middle name. To make it less a big deal ( we hope) we gave them both an extra middle name. It didn't cost much to add the names in.

I didn't want to give my DS3 a so-so name when there was a name we LOVED. And as frequently pointed out on other MN threads hardly anyone ever uses their middle name.

My boys are only 4 and 7 so still time for them to get arsey about it but they certainly don't mind for now.

broccolitrees · 03/01/2012 09:51

just tell them it was a name you loved, rather than suggesting you couldn't be arsed. they'll ask you if that's what they think.

one of my best friends younger sisters has my best friends middle name, and two of dh's brothers have combinations of each others names - doesn't seem to bother any of them.

ilovemydogandMrObama · 03/01/2012 09:54

I used my 'boy's name' on the dog, who was named first and had a moment when I thought about it, but DH was fairly insistent that it would be weird

3boysgirlontheway · 03/01/2012 09:55

We were considering it if this baby had been a boy. DS2 is Levi Reuben and then DS3 has two names of his own, but, Reuben was still a huge favourite of mine and a name I wanted to be calling out in the playground IYKWIM? There was a good chance that if we had been having DS4 that he would have been Reuben and I didn't think it was that weird

CalatalieSisters · 03/01/2012 09:58

Did I ever tell you of Mrs McCave
Who had twenty-three sons and called them all Dave?

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