Naming baby almost the same as me?

[sleepawaythedayahead]

My name is Sophie. Thinking of naming new baby Sophia

I love my name and she is due the same week as me :)

Do you plan on any more children because it will be hard to come up with a matching name for dd2. Would you give a future son a matching name with his dad?

Probably nobody will say it to your face, but most people would find this seriously weird.

We have two names that start with the same sound but are otherwise different (think Bella and Benedict) and its a bloody nightmare. Don't do it!

Lots of people do name their dc after themselves. Personally, I'm not a fan. I think it either looks egotistical or lacking in imagination.

However, if you like it, go for it.

Use Sophia as middle, your baby might feel differently once adult and it will be confusing for many people and confusing for paperwork officials.

Sophia is a lovely name, as is Sophie but I wouldn't recycle my own name for one of my daughters. I'd not be keen on using a variation on DH's name for a son either, I think it's odd.

I wouldn’t personally

I knew a woman that called her last baby emma she was called emma and she herself was the last baby in her family, also called emma after her mum.

Well, plenty of people have recycled their own names for their children before. I mean, my family tree is littered with about three names for men (John, Peter and James, but mostly known as something else) since the 1800's, but with more variation for the women and girls!

I imagine that you will probably just be known as, "Sophia's mum" in future, so you might get away with using it... or at least, that's what I'm hoping, as a name that I'm considering is one vowel sound different to mine!

You can use any name you like, and I think that Sophie and Sophia are beautiful names. Yes, very similar, but there are millions of men named after their dads and nobody seems to think strange.

I did once work with a man called Stephen, whose children were called Stephan and Stephanie! That was going a bit far, I thought..!

No way

Sophia is a lovely name, but I think it'd be better used as a middle name.

I have never understood the practice of naming a child after one of the parents; I think it’s odd not to give a whole new person their very own name. The tiny difference you propose does not make it any less odd to me. But everyone’s different so do whatever you want!

I think it's would be very odd to do that tbh.

I had a rescue cat called Gwen
Her first owner was called Gwen, and she named her cat after herself.

I think they're too similar. Fine as a middle name, though.

Odd enough that Sophie would be a less odd choice

Depends how you'd feel introducing yourselves. In a lot of baby classes you go round and say "I'm XX and this is my baby XX" so everyone would know you'd named your baby after yourself. I personally wouldn't do it, and would probably find it annoying for post (I'm named similar to my dad), but if it's what you want do it.

I'd think it was odd. - as if you regarded her as a mini-me rather an individual.

DS is 13 and at a all-boys’ school. I can’t get over how many of his classmates are named after their father, and in some cases, given the names, probably their grandfather too (Bernard, Maurice).

I had a German relative called Karin and she called her daughter Karen. I think it's a bit strange.

My DD was John, named after his DF and his DF too and nobody ever batted an eyelid - I wouldn’t think anything if I came across a DM naming her DC the same or similar.

Yes it’s fine, nobody asks for my mums name when I introduce myself and they won’t with your daughter either.
I’ve only ever heard on here the weird idea that siblings names have to match each other in some way, I don’t get it, Why?!?

I think that's surprisingly common. I like some names that sound and are very similar to mine.
So just go for it. It's not like people will get you mixed up.

I think the siblings matching thing is a mad Mn obsession, but I think calling a child after a parent suggests you see them as an aspect of you rather than as a separate individual.