Naming a boy after his dad

[Whatsthatgottodowithmyknob]

Think of naming DS who is due in November after DH but would it be too confusing? A bit odd?

I think it's chavvy.
It s very well saying the queen is named after her mother but they would not both be called the same would they.
The queen mother was Lady Elizabeth Margurite Angela Bowes Lyons ( if I remember correctly). She was the kings wife.
Elizabeth 11 is called the queen or queen Elizabeth the second. She had the same fist name as her mother but her surname made her Elizabeth Windsor .
Anyhow the royal family can hardly call their children Kai or Cass can they.
Their choices are more limited.

We do like the name, it was one of my favourites before even meeting DH. He'll have DH surname so that would be really confusing

Could you not use it as the middle name (my DH's family have this tradition with first born sons) and then your little one can have his own? 😊

I remember talking to a little boy many years ago.
I asked his brothers name.
Rodney.
No, sorry, your brother. Not your dad.
Yes. Rodney.
My brother is Rodney. My dad is Rodney. My grandad is Rodney. My uncle is Rodney. (I think uncle was a coincidence. Married to an aunt?)There were 5 generations of Rodney. It was confusing.

I dislike it for several reasons. The "own identity" issue already mentioned above. And also the fact that it somehow makes that son more "special" than any other son who is called something else. I wouldn't like to be either sibling in that equation.

I know a man who is one of two male twins. This man had his father's name. I thought it very strange when there were two boy twins to single one out in this way. And there was an older sister who was calle a double name, like Mary Jane, neither of the names were after the mother.

Robson Green's dad was called Robson Green.

my son has the same name as my husband first and middle name(we added a second middle name to show a difference). just like the op i liked the name also...nothing to do with his dad being erertistical and his middle name is my dads first name as well as my husbands middle name. We use an abberatived version to. I do draw the line at jnr as i dislike it. call your baby whatever you like dont worry about others

My husbands brother has their dads name.
They are big Dave and little Dave (not real names) Even though little Dave is bigger than big Dave. ridiculous in my opinion. Never met a woman who's gave her daughter her name. So weird.

It was tradition in DP's family, but we'd already had hassle with DP and various bank account things, so we didn't follow it. He did get DP's name as his middle name though, just to pacify relatives.

It's up to you OP, for me it's a no though.

I really like DP's name and would be OK with it, but his first name is dated so I would probably swap the order of the names around, and use DP's dad's first name as a middle name.

When I got divorced I changed my surname to my dp's first name!!
When we had ds he has First name with Surname (his df's first name!)

I don’t really get this - I’ve never come across a mother wanting to give her daughter the same name as her so don’t understand why it’s a thing for some men, other than ego.

I understand giving middle names which are the names of grandparents, other special family members etc but the same first name as a parent is just a bit cringe imo.

Give him his own name. I speak from experience.

I was named after a relative, but my younger sister was given a name my parents spent a long time agonising over and for a long time I was a bit jealous because I didn't like my name, whereas hers always seemed very glamorous and feminine. Now it doesn't bother me at all and I named DS after a relative - but I also love his name so would have picked it anyway.

I know a guy who named all four of his sons after himself

Example
Father: John Paul Smith
1st born: John Paul Smith
2nd born: David John Smith
3rd born: Alan John Smith
4th born James John Smith

I found this weird and it put me off naming children after parents.

I also know a Stanley with two son called Stanley and Stan

Didn't George Foreman call all his children George Foreman?

I personally think it's a really weird thing to do but each to their own

I think it screams of a narcissistic wanker who feels he "owns" his children.

DS1 has his own first name, Husband's middle name and then my brothers name.
DS2 has his own first name, FIL first name then DF first name.

And DH is Scottish where it seems to be some kind of shite tradition to give kids exactly the same name as the parents but there was no way on gods green earth that I was t going to give my children their own names.

My kids are individual - they should have their own names to identify themselves by, not "Little X" or "X Jnr" - anyone who does that makes me think "twat".

Thankfully my in laws nor DH have ever felt it appropriate to name kids after themselves.

I am named after my mum, grandmother and great-grandmother. And it's an unusual name

The 'confusion' thing isn't a big deal

It's a kind of honour and a 'nice thing' because it's not common for women

But if I had my choice I wouldn't have this name because it's unusual. And there are so many other nice names out there I wouldn't want to be limited to one name for my own child.

Stroke

Interestingly, I've never felt like that about my female relatives who chose to do that - maybe because sharing a first name is the antidote to 'losing' your surname when you marry

We planned to for 8 months and even set up clothes with husband's name and junior and lots of other named pieces... Everyone and I mean EVERY ONE we told were such massive A-holes about it saying we were stupid and was ridiculous and bla bla that we changed name :( I still sometimes call him the wrong name and he's 6 months! I think do what you like but alot of people have an opinion! Also my reasoning was Henry 8th was the 8th Henry! English people have been doing it for years! (Lots of people telling us we were trying to be American)

My DH is named after his Grandad (first &middle) and was raised by his GPS, he said when his gd died it was hard for him to see his name on a death certificate. To cope he had to look at dob to remind him it wasn't his death certificate.

My son has his dad's name and I love it and he really suits it. I think it's a nice tradition but only if the name is nice.

The thing is Feb you are not members of the royal family.
You do know that they go by other names in private and have an official name which they use for public engagements.
E.g. Edward v111th was called David.
Queen Mary was given that as an official title, her 'real name' was May.
It's fine if you are Lord x of y to be the seventh Lord with that title.
Daft if you are a commoner.