Giving baby a version of your own name

[DigUpTheRoad]

Would you find this narcissistic? I know boys often have their fathers names and no-one thinks much of it. How about mothers? I wouldn't actually be doing it to reference myself at all. Just a name I love that happens to be really close to my own.

Examples: Clare and Clara
Emily and Emilia
Anna and Annabel
Katherine and Katie

See what I mean?

DigUp, I would name your baby, whatever you like 😄

One of my friends at school was named after her mother - the exact same name. I thought it was odd until it was pointed out to me that men do it all the time and it's seen as an accepted tradition, even if not to everyone's naming taste.

I don't see anything with using your name, or a variant. I draw the line at things like Angusina or Donaldina, though!

I have no problem with that. Actually I think it's quite nice unless more than one sibling has a variation of that same name. Then it would be confusing.

In the last year I know of a Joanne (known as Jo) who called their son Joe, and a Danielle who called their son Daniel. I do find it odd, there are so many names out there why pick one so similar to your own?

I'm a Kate and I love the name Kit for a boy. I think it'll only be weird if you introduce yourselves at the same time, e.g at baby rhyme time or some such. I think if you like it, go for it.

It's not unimaginative...

What is unimaginative is naming your daughter the name you were going to be called but weren't.

Yes DM I'm looking at you, giving me your leftover name.

My name is Rachel, my sons name is Archie. See what I did there? ;)

I know a woman called Teresa who has a daughter by her first marriage called Therese and a daughter by her second marriage (big age gap, 14 or 15 yeas( called Theresia! Now that does seem narcissistic!

The older DD lives with her dad a long way from her mum and only visits in the summer wonder why so I didn't initially know, when I met her with her newborn 3 years ago, that both her dds were basically named after her! I didn't think that much of the baby being named after her but certainly did when I met her dd1!

She has 3 boys by her first marriage with totally individual names, though I have never asked what her first husband's name is...

Mind you I have worked in a care home and people in their 90s almost all seem to be named, or have a sibling named, after a parent or grandparent (they mostly had biographies on the wall so we could discuss their parents and siblings with them as it's a dementia centre) so it obviously used to be normal.

My DD has a Irish version of my name. We couldn't decide on her name so exH suggested it and I didn't hate it so said ok. It wasn't until she was a few months old that I noticed we have basically the same name.

When I was pregnant with DD3 exH suggested a name that is in my name, think Georgina and Gina, but I said that was a step too far!

No i wouldnt,a child deserves their own name,i have a sil whose every child she had bar 1 is named after someone.She even called her daughter the same name
as another sil child wbich wouldnt be as bad.They basically have the same name.
Dont do it

I hate all the alternative versions of my name through years of people getting my name wrong and using them instead, so definitely not. There aren't really any male versions.

At a baby group I met a Charlotte, whose baby was called Scarlett. Rhyming names: nope, don't do it!