A post on another thread made me think of this. Any names in your family that you are def not going to use?
My two grandmother's names are Doris and Delores. Any family name from my side that is decent has been used a million times.
So, that is why our little girl is having a name we like, Isabella, and the family name Ann for a middle name after DH's grandmother.
Re: S/O Names...any family names you are def NOT using??
We're not passing down any part of either of our father's names Joseph, Richard, Phillip, or Wayne. My dad was already a Jr, and his dad passed down Phillip to my DH (who goes by his middle name, Ryan, b/c neither of us like Phillip).
If it is a boy, we found a neutral name we both liked and will give the boy my maiden name as his middle name (I have no siblings and my dad passed away years ago) to pass that down. If we have a 2nd boy, the middle name is after my uncle, who was my dad's closet brother.
If it is a girl, the first girl name we like is just one we like the names and meanings. If we ever had a 2nd girl, the name is after my maternal grandmother -- she is Lou Emma, and we like "Emma Rose."
Oh yes, there are plenty of names in our family that we wouldn't use
At the risk of not offending anyone (and because I'm trying to be a bit more anonymous on here these days) I won't post any of them...they aren't horrible names, just not good for first or middle names in our opinion.
My dad's name is Alfred....didn't quite make the cut
My favorite grandfathers name is Arthur...another no.
My grandmother's name is Edith..another no.
I wish I could have used Rose after my grandmother...that is the only one I would consider and really like.
Yeah, there are so many name from my DH's side that mother in law wants us to use. Two of the big ones if we have a boy or George and Aaron.
DH and I vetoed George right away (great great grandpa, great grandpa and grandpa have all been George) However, we are not naming our child after one of my Ex-Boyfriends.
Aaron DH just hates!
guy, stefan, marjorie, laureen, patricia, lyn, ... I also come from a huge family and don't like to duplicate names... so with all the first, middle, and third names, plus all the first, second and third cousins (that I'm actually close to), plus DH's family, our options are quite limited. I'm a huge fan of biblical names, and a lot of the common, cute names have already been claimed.
We are partial to Samuel, James, Chad, Juliana, Sophiana, and FIL is pretty set on Charlotte.
lol!
Ralph
Edith
Arlo
Mike (only because there are several Mike's in our families already)
Nancy
Susan
Setha (this is my great grandmother's sister's name, I just threw it in for effect )
That is why we're not using any family names for our son. Any of the good ones have been used too many times - that's especially true with my side of the family.
As for specific names, we decided against the IL's recommendation of Dwight. Made us gag, lol.
There is an odd tradition in my DH's family to give all boys the middle name Richard. I don't even know if there was every anyone in the family named Richard... but DH and his two brothers all have the MN Richard, as does his dad, who actually goes by Rick. I believe his male cousins on that side have it too.
So, we may or may not do this.
For a first name, I want to name him after my dad if he is born on my dad's birthday - I'm due 6/11 and Dad's b-day is 6/12. I'm hoping to use my dad's name (Kenneth) at least as a MN. It depends on the Richard thing, I guess.
We are not considering any other names in the family. Our grandpas have weird names, such as Ambrose...
My husband's name is the same as his father and grandfather - will definitely not be using that one.
we've had enough Esperanzas in the family, i think. beautiful name, but so many with it as a first name or tacked on as a second name. all named after the original Esperanza, my great-grandmother, a wonderful lady - but oh, i think we need a new name to pass on for sure!?
Mostly it's our father's middle names that have been passed on.
Otis and Levonne.
Yeah- we decided to kill that tradition. Oops!
My grandmother's name is Edith Sue and I LOVE it. If we were having a girl, we were going either with Edie or Sue as the middle name.
Glenice (great g-ma's first name) - too old-fashioned for our tastes.
Gay (g-ma's middle name, quite seriously) - NFT.
Marie (FI's stepmother's middle name). We actually really wanted to use this for a middle name, but my dislike for FI's stepmother is greater than my like for the name, and I know she would always think that our kid was named after her (even if we told her otherwise, she's just that stupid), so there's no way I'm using it.
If we have a girl, my DH wanted her to have the middle name after his great grandmother...Ethel.
Umm..that's gonna be a negative.
Umm... yeah.
Heywood, Zimry, Dudley and Boppy.
No joke.
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my mom's name is Luda..love her to death but yeah i will pass
but we did find well make a name we like it is liliandra we blended my grandma's name (lillie who died dec. 20 08) with Dh's mamaw's name(sandra she died march 3 08) so it has a lot of meaning behind it.