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Opinions on naming baby boy after Daddy?

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Re: Opinions on naming baby boy after Daddy?

  • If you like it, go for it. I don't personally think there is anything weird about it. Everyone keeps saying, "If you wouldn't name your daughter after yourself, why name your son after your SO?" But I did name my child after myself. So maybe I'm just the weird one here.
    Good for you (honestly).  I feel like people are more likely to side eye a woman naming her daughter after herself and it's totally a double standard.  
    It's my son, actually. I'm Samantha and he's Samuel. :)
  • NAF of using the full name either. DS's MN will be DH's FN.

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  • If you like it, go for it. I don't personally think there is anything weird about it. Everyone keeps saying, "If you wouldn't name your daughter after yourself, why name your son after your SO?" But I did name my child after myself. So maybe I'm just the weird one here.
    Good for you (honestly).  I feel like people are more likely to side eye a woman naming her daughter after herself and it's totally a double standard.  
    It's my son, actually. I'm Samantha and he's Samuel. :)
    Nice.  Idk why I assumed it was a girl.  I knew a woman once who was Carol and her daughter was Caroline and I think that's the only time I've ever come across a mother and child having similar names.  
  • 4N6s4N6s member
    My husband is a jr. and it's obnoxious. 
  • I like LJ, but I wouldn't want to be a "junior" as a grown man. Maybe you could use the same first name but use a different middle name that starts with J, like James or Jonathan. That would give you the LJ nickname but allow him to have his own individual name and identity.
  • kaos16kaos16 member
    My husband is named Lane (which I believe to be the masculine version, I think Layne is the feminine version).  We used Lane as our son's middle name and gave him his own unique first name. 
  • My son and my husband share the same middle name, which happens to be my FIL's name. I only let that slide because I told my husband flat out that if we had a son his first name would be Henry after my grandfather.

    I'm personally not a fan of having children named after their parents, even if you choose to give them a nickname or call them something else, because they may choose to go by their true first name as they age. A child should have his or her own identity. I also feel that the child (in many cases) is already getting his father's last name, so why should he have to have the first name as well? 
  • I do not like this tradition at all and for several reasons:

    1) I find it egotistical.  
    2) I don't like the fact that it's part of a tradition that I had no say in.
    3) It's essentially letting my ILs name my kid.  

    Nope, nope, and nope to all of it.



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  • I think you can name the baby after your husband with out using 'Junior' as part of his actual name (and the nickname could still be LJ because Junior would be understood). Layne could work as first or middle depending on what you want to pair it with. Good luck, mama! Congratulations!
  • I do not like this tradition at all and for several reasons:

    1) I find it egotistical.  
    2) I don't like the fact that it's part of a tradition that I had no say in.
    3) It's essentially letting my ILs name my kid.  

    Nope, nope, and nope to all of it.
    I agree. However, it may not be always egotistical. I've posted above re: my brother being named after my dad (same middle initial, but different MN, though). My brother was never referred to as JR either (sidenote). Anyway, my parents couldn't agree on a name for DB. I'm pretty sure he came home from the hospital nameless. Dad vetoed everything mom suggested. I don't know if he offered anything up. Finally mom told him, "He needs a name, so I'm naming him after you, so you can't complain."  And that was his name. My dad did name me three years earlier. 


    ETA I know this is a zombie thread, but it had already been resurrected. 
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