Would you ever name your baby after yourself?

[AlexanderS]

Would you ever consider naming a DD after yourself? Or a DS after your DP? Have you, or do you know anybody who has? I can't work out if this is nice (name the baby after somebody who they will love/loves them and who will hopefully be an inspiration to them (!)) or egotistical.

Ds1 is called after dh, who is called after his father, who is called after his father, and so on going back about 10 generations. It's just a family tradition that I wouldn't want to be the one to mess with.
We've avoided confusion by calling ds1 the Irish version of the name.

No. DH & I were very careful to choose names for the DDs that no-one we knew had - I hated the idea that people would say things like, "oooh, you're all grumpy, just like the auntie you're named after" etc

DH did say that if we had a boy he would want him to "continue his family tradition" of giving the child his name as a middle name, but as that "family tradition" only started with his grandfather, I wasn't that fussed about continuing it. Luckily, we have never had to have that argument!

No, because a name is supposed to identify a person which isn't really achieved by calling 2 members of the family the same name...

Awful for a first name, but I really like the idea of using a family name as middle name, although I prefer using a grandparents name rather than a parents name.

I have my middle name as a possible for a DD, but that's just because I really like the name and my middle name never gets used so there wouldn't be any confusion.

What about what Will Smith and Jada Pinkett have done, boy called Jaden (after mum) and girl called Willow (after dad)?

No I wouldn't give a insect my name

Only if it were a real family tradition.

Unlike the NCT friend who called their daughter a different form of their name without realising (Isobel and Elizabeth) and a neighbour who called their son the same but different spelling (Stephen and Steven). First example a bit amusing and not many people well, those without baby name books will realise; second example, IMHO, just weird

what boys name backwards is another boys name!?

jellykat!?

Well, here in the States it's the done thing in some parts of the country. A lot of men who are the third (as in John Bartholomew Whitehall III or whatever) are called Trip or Trey as a nickname. And then initials, etc.

FIL and BIL (his son) are both James on their birth certificates, but FIL is always Jim and BIL is always Jamey.

I think it's nice if you can use a different nn...I suggested naming DS Andrew after DH and calling him Drew, as DH is always Andy, but he said no.

I worked with some one called (for eg) Anne, and they had a daughter called Anna, which I always thought showed a real lack of imagination rather than egotism.

I know a lot more little boys with their dad's name as a middle name than I do girls with their mother's. Do you think that men's names tend to be more "traditional" and handed down?

No. I really loathe it.

Jenna / Jellykat: Leon and Noel? (Names of twin boys of a friend of a friend!)

oh yeah! thanks. BIT much 'L' for twins but nice for father and son I think.

It seems to be a thing in Scotland for boys to be given their Dads names. Not sure why.

Doesn't bother me in principle, DS has a mate named after is dad.

We gave DH's forename to DS3 as a middle name (Peter Pan reference, too). All the DC have family names.

However I was named after my mom & I changed my name to something totally different when I was 7yo. So let that be a lesson to you?!

Ha ha ha.
Dont want to out myself on this one!

I guess it made more sense when people had huge families - you named the firstborn son and daughter after the parents in the knowledge there'd be plenty of opportunities for imagination further down the line... or a younger one when you'd run out of ideas!

My middle name is my mum's first name (and a family name on both sides) - DD also has it as her middle name, but after her granny rather than after me...

Erm, no. Much too narcissistic.

I would prefer for my daughters to choose my name or DHs name as a middle name (maybe) for their DCs in the future. That's lovely, as it would be something they'd decide to do based on their feelings for us (I'd not sway them into it, btw!)

My ex's sister was named after her mother, I didn't realise until I told him I thought it was weird! Plus it was an old fashioned name and the sister wasn't even the eldest daughter.

I love my name, I would use it for a DD if it wasn't my name but it is, so no!

My name, for the person who asked further up the thread, is Rachel. Well, the general consensus is it would be a bad idea so I guess it's back to the drawing board.

No not our first names.

But I might give dc's my or my dp's middle name but that's only because I really like our middle names. I wouldn't do it for the sake of it.

I would avoid having same name or even similar name or even same initials - it just gets too confusing. And if you get into family trees it gets really confusing when the same name appears generation after generation.

I once knew a family where the Mum, Dad and first son all had the same shortened version of different names. It was odd.

Also knew another family with four children where all of them had the same first inital - imagine what post was like in that house! Bit like the 19 kids and counting family. Madness!

MrsKwaHaHaHaAzii Snap on that one. I know a Noriko, her husband is Nori-something and the son is Nori. So they are all known as Nori in some form. How confusing is that? (It also means seaweed, but I digress)

Our old next door neighbours named their son the same as the dad. They also used to have loud sex. It was very odd to hear the mum late at night through the bedroom wall moaning 'Come on Joe, keep going, that's soooo good Joe!', then the next morning shouting 'Come on Joe, keep going, that's so good' as the son cycled up and down the street .... I just would find the same name in such different contexts very odd!