What are your thoughts on naming DS the same name as DH ?

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That's about it really !

What are your opinions on DS's having the same name as their fathers ?

Contemplating it with DC3, always said no straight away previously (fortunately we had girls) but am finding myself actually consdering it should this one be a boy

spotty, did he not think passing his surname on was enough?

tigerfeet lol at Kevin!

That's the issue IMO - most DHs' names probably not one quite in fashion today for small boys - I know a lot of 40yo Marks, Martins, Daves, Jims, yes, Kevins (tho do know a 7yo Kevin), Keiths, Pauls etc. All fines names but not quite what one meets at the school gate amid the Matthews, Jameses, Thomases, Alfies and Joshes.

miaou lol at big Willy and little Willy

foghorn reading further I see that my point above does not apply - but there will be a lot of Thomases in his class.

My dad and his dad etc going back years all had the same first name and an alternating second name (ie Albert George/Albert Edward etc) but my parents wisely imo broke that tradition when naming my brother.

do not like it

It's very American. DP Jr.

I always thought it would be weird to name my son after the person I have sex with. Odd perspective maybe but it's how I feel.

Really, really hate it.

It seems like a bloke is trying to create a"mini me" .
(its totally ok for a mum to do it though!)

My daughter has her great grandmothers name (dh paternal gran) as her first name - her great grandmother was called X but known as Edna.
She has Y as her middle name which is both of my grandmothers middle names. When she got confirmed SHE choose her confirmation name and blow me, she chose her dads mternal great grans name as her confirmation name. In other words all of her names are from her 4 great nans. Its ok but none of them are HERS.

Aaaaargh, hate this. DH + FIL share a name - makes for v.annoying conversations with MIL "do you mean your x or my x?" and when DH lived at home, ridiculous postal mix-ups. Thankfully we had a daughter.

My mum and her sis each married men with the same name. They each had a son and named him after his father. So, I have a brother, cousin, uncle, and father with the same name.

To some extent it depands on the name and how many varietions there are. Like, if the name is Derek there's not much you can do with that. But if it's Andrew I guess one could be Andy and the other Drew or something.

But, I still find the whole practice very sexist.

Well, I had a name 'bagged' for any potential ds.

Then I married a man who happened to be called that.

So ds has a similar name (eg. Robert/Robin - not those but similarly similar! ) with the same possible diminutives.

It doesn't confuse us but has led to various family & friends thinking it hilarious to speculate whether dd1 & dd2 were going to be Roberta, Robyn, etc...

LOL Edam - you'd think eh?! Bloomin egotistical men!

That said - my DS ended up with my grandad, my bro and my cousins/DH grandad's names! I only chose his 2nd name to be after my brother on purpose - the others were purely coincidence though coz we liked them!

In Scotland it is extremely common to do this. For hundreds of years there has been a pattern- i think its oldest son after paternal grandfather, next after maternal grandfather etc and the same for girls. Even in my generation almost everyone i know has one of their grandparenst names as a middle name and/or their mother's maiden name

Its considered completely normal still and not at all egotistical. And no, they don't have numbers

Sixspot - you were funny!
Like the Dave poem.
Family middle names here too but a first for the family first name. If that makes sense. We had a dd but I wanted to use DPs name as the middle name if it was a DS.

There are 'traditional' names in my family. I used them as middle names to keep them going, but used the names of my choice as given names That way I'm keeping the tradition alive without feeling pressurised into using a name I don't want to use every day.

I hate it. I am half Irish and its really popular thing over there...cant keep track of all the Johns, Martins, Paddys, Liams etc. (and I think, being called "wee johnny" when you are 58 is a bit silly)

Have just found out I am expecting another boy in September and really like the name Harry, but then my SIL pointd out that her grandad was called Harry so people would think he was named after him (he died about 20 years ago)

So, should I still name the baby Harry and let people think what they want???

(My dh wanted to use his name as my ds middle name, but I hate that too. They are their own person! Plus his mum and dad did it with him and my SIL and I just think its a bit naff tbh.

Yes use as middle name

If you use it for first name, baby would alwyas be "little joe"

Mind you, the family names in my family are hideous!!!

Royston
Brian
Launcelot (no, I'm not joking!)
Dennis

My cousin called her baby Derick (shudder)

We have done it for ours - boys and girls. But we are Greek and probably really strange. It's also traditional for us .

my exH had same first name as his dad & grandfather - different 2nd name so he was always known as first-second.
his dad had same first AND second name as his dad
I have always found this weird & confusing.

ended up calling my exH "my first name" so his mum knew I was talking about him

we didnt call DS either name - why would I want him to be "first" name the 4th or junior?

thankfully my exH agreed and his parents never questioned the fact we didnt name him the same

incidently exh's sister has a name made up of his mum & dad - I kid you not!
fortunately its a normal name BUT weird when you know why they chose it!