naming babies after family members

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What do you think about giving your ds/dd a name after a family member or friend? have you and why?

never after soemone who died!
how morose
ds3 has my borthers name int he middlecos we liek it really adn after finidng 6 names you do run out of inspiration.
i alawys loil as a teahcer adn now ion court as you see peopel wiht a middel name of " alfred" or somehting
poor guys

my dh has this family tradition of the ist born child has the middle name passed down, its a totally awful name and i just wouldnt stand for it, dh's family were horrified we didnt do it!

i would do it if i really liked the name, but then it wouldnt be naming your child after that person, it would be because you like the name, iyswim

I gave my DS my Godfathers name as his second name, as I totally adore him.

I would probably have given him my Dad's name as a second name but my Mum called my bro after my Dad (she now claims borderline PND )and I did not want to use it again.

middle names only IMO - then I love it. ds has my dad's name and my dh's great uncle's name plus one of his own

after someone who's died is a big Jewish tradition (can't remember if Ashkenazi or Sephardi - one is after person who's died and one is after relative who's alive)

My Godfather that is, and Ds is not too bad either.

Dd is Susannah Rose - her grandmothers are Susan and Rosemary. Named Susannah because we love the name, and then the middle name kind of followed naturally. Not really named after the grandmothers, IYSWIM.

Ds has his great grandad's name as a middle name - mainly because it fitted with his first name, and then coincidentally was a family name. And then my grandad died a couple of weeks before ds was born, so ds got his name as a 2nd middle name. As it turns out, I think 3 of my grandad's 4 great-grandsons have his name, George, as a middle name. We all loved our grandad!

Ds has three names and as we went to register him I thought he was going to have two as discussed. Right at the last minute dh wanted us to add a thrid name - after his uncle. It wasn't a particularly nice name but he said it would mean so much to him.

We added it right at the last minute and as were driving home dh told me that the uncle has killed a few years ago I was not a happy bunny at all and to this day refuse to acknowledge the name in any way whatsoever and I get first dibs on any othe rnames for future kids.
Still makes me thinking about it.

haste tradition

My dd1 has my (dead) mum's name as her middle name. So NER, Cod!

Its also a bit of a family tradition as my middle name is also that name, so it wasn't just prompted by my mum being dead. However, its alovely tribute IMO, and important to the whole family that the Grannie who never met any of her grandchildren is remembered in this way.

my sister is a susannah wiht an h!

Purpleturtle - lovely name :)

Meant to say, its a nice, acceptably normal name.

I might not have been so keen if it had been Ermintrude!

(Apologies to any Ermintrudes I've offended!)

My DS's middle name is my DH's first name, but it is a name I like anyway so it sort of killed two birds with one stone.... not that I go around killing any birds with stones....

whoops I meant to type that dh's uncle had killed himself

sorry meggmoo, but LOL!

DS has DH's middle name

BUT I found out it was DH's middle name after we decided on DS's name (yes we were already married but I couldn't have been paying any attention to the ceremony )

in fact DH didn't even mention when we were chundering on about names it took his mother to tell me it was her DH's middle name and my DH's

My DD has my my (dead) MIL's name as her middle name. Don't think it's weird at all.

BTW - lavenderfraggle, are you a newbie ?

DS is named after DH's dad (who died when ds was 13) but it is also my youngest brothers middle name, and DS's middle name is named after my eldest brother and also happens to be dh's stepdads name. All worked out pretty well

My Mum has had 7 kids and all the names she gave to my brothers and sister can be linked back to our family in some way apart from my name which is totally unique. I say it's because I'm special my brothers say it because I am actually the milkmans. Also all our names are traditional names that never come into or go out of fashion, the best type you can get in my opinion.

my dd is called Olivia rose, My grandmother (94)is called rosalin but everybody calls her rose, and my kids call her nana-rose. She is so special I wanted her to feel included and also I love the names.

I'm not really into naming babies after family members, and nor is DP. However, we really liked my grandad's name and it worked really well as a middle name for ds1. So we chose it. We never said anything like "he was named after you" (because he wasn't), but apparently he shed a tear when he heard ds1's name!

When ds1 was 18 months old my Grandad died. At the funeral people we'd never met before kept coming up to us and telling us how much they felt they knew ds1 even though they'd never met him - apparently Grandad used to walk round the village stopping to chat to everyone he met, and for the last 18 months of his life the only thing he talked about was his great grandson! So although ds1 wasn't named after him, we are very glad that we gave him that name and made an old man very happy!

* he didn't die when ds was 13 he died when DH was 13.

God ds is only 14 weeks

Fisil that a lovely story.

I gave DS2 'Tilney' as a middle name - poor kid, makes me feel soo embarassed, particularly as Bumble is really my 1st name, I should know better.

I blame it on the hormones

also, in case you thought I was off on one, Tilney is a family name.....!