3rd Trimester

Does your S/O want a "Jr"?

The baby name post below got me thinking...

My DH is a junior.  Jokingly, way back when we first found out we were expecting, he mentioned a "Jr. Jr" .  (yes, we know he'd be a "third" not a "Jr Jr", but it makes us laugh.)  Now, I'm not so sure he was joking.  I kind of vetoed it because he always seemed to be kidding around about it, although we are passing on his middle name for sure.

Fast Forward to now when we can't agree on a first name...I wonder if he's holding out for his "Jr."?

Does your S/O wants to pass his name to his son?

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Re: Does your S/O want a "Jr"?

  • My DH put his foot down to a jr.  I didn't care and thought he'd want one but when I mentioned it, his answer was "out of all the names in the world there are, you want to give him mine?"  He says no way because he's not him, he's his own person and should have his own name.
  • If we were haveing a boy mine did not. He hates his name, I love it though and would have liked our LO to be named it.

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  • Nope.  Which is good, because I don't want a "junior" either.
  • My DH did not.  His dad and brother are Mike and Mike Jr. and there was always confusion in their house.  Phone calls or mail would get mixed up, their credit reports even got mingled at one point and they had quite a hassle cleaning that up.

    We are just using DH's middle name for our LO.

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  • No but we are using the flipflop of DH's first and middle names for our son.
  • Mine doesn't. I told him I would be ok with it, but he answered "NO" so quickly I couldn't get a word out after that.
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  • My hubby is the third and baby will be the 4th.  We figured if the name made it this far, why not go one more time!
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  • I was all for it but DH was totally against it
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  • He explicitly told me no Jrs.  His brother is a Jr, and had financial trouble in college... and it ended up on his dad's credit report since they had the same name.  Aside from that, his mother was forced into calling DH's dad "Daddy" instead of his name when she called out to him, to avoid having two people reply, which I hear can be irritating.

    In general though, we think the kid should have his own name, though the name we chose is somewhat related to DH's name.
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  • My husband is a fourth and we are still undecided on whether or not we want a fifth.  We are going to go into the hospital with two names, the fifth and an original name, and will decide after we meet LO.  Hopefully, it won't take us too long to finally pick! 

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  • No. Thankfully! Jrs are just not my thing. Even if Nate wanted it, I wouldn't do it. We are passing Nate's middle name (James) on to Lucas.
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  • DH does not want a junior.  As a matter of fact I suggested having LO's middle name as DH's first name.  He would not go for that either. 
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  • ugh DH and I have been arguing about this since I found out we were having a boy. I really didn't want a third (especially since his father isn't even a part of his life) We decided to give him a middle name (since both DH and my FIL dont have one) so they he wouldn't be a 3rd. So he'll be Sergio Michael but we plan to call him Gio for short. i'm really not a fan but my DH was really hopeful to keep the namesake.
  • When we first found out I was expecting he said, "No", but as wer got closer to finding out the sex he was dropping little hints.  I will 100% veto that idea.  I would give my daughter his name as a middle name and spell it different.  His name is Corey for my daughter it'd be Kori.

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  • We are Team Green, but if it is a boy there will be no Jr. DH did not want a child named after him, but in our list of choices there are a couple that would give a son my DH's first name as his middle name. We also have a possible girl's name that has my first name as a middle name.

  • My husband is Jewish, and "Jrs" are not allowed (you aren't supposed to name a child after anyone who is still alive).  Which is just fine with me--I wouldn't want him to have DH's name.  I was, however, a bit bummed we couldn't name him after my dad.  My dad is a third, and while I know we couldn't have a "true" fourth, because the last name would be different, I still would have liked to use his name.  Oh well--I love the name we've chosen!
  • My DH is a junior and he doesn't get along with his father so he said there is no way he would pass the name on. I'm more than okay with that because his name is Edward Harry. haha.
  • DH is a III.........We're having a girl, but if we had a boy, we were definitely NOT making him be the IV.
  • No Junior here. It's not my thing and thankfully not DH's.

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  • When we first found out, we had discussed LO being a third (SO is a jr) but his dad didnt want it, so we went for somethign else. LO is a girl though, so we don't have to worry about it.
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  • No. DH has his father's first name as his middle name, and DH's brother has DH's first name as his middle name. I was afraid DH would want to continue and have our son's middle name his brother's first name but he doesn't, thank goodness.

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  • No, but we will use his first name as LO's middle name.
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  • My husband would love a junior.  I have said no from the beginning.  I'd say talk to him about what he's thinking.  A boy I grew up with was a fourth- but he was never called his given name and neither was his father. 
  • Nope and he doesn't even want to use a different version of his name.  His name is Alexi and I wouldn't mind using Alexander as it was also my grandfather's middle name, but he doesn't want any part of his name to be part of our boy's name if we ever have a little boy.
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  • No, we both agreed we want our kids to have their own names, so no juniors here.

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  • NO, thank goodness. He's a third already, and the thought of having a fourth person in the family with the same name makes me feel annoyed. :) We discussed this before we had children though.

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  • If our LO would be a boy (which we're pretty sure with 9,000 U/Ss she isn't), he would take his Daddy's American name.  My hubb's name is Panagiotis (Greek - Pana-YO-tees) and in English, we all call him Peter.  He didn't want a Panagiotis because he hated his name in school and always had to correct his teachers, so we'd do a Peter. 

    He doesn't want a Jr. just to have a Jr, though... he wants a Jr because he believes that a child lives up to their name and is ego-centric self says that all Peters are strong and perfect, lol Confused

  • My DH is already a 3rd, so he vetoed it!  He said it was already confusing enough.  We will use his name as a middle name if we have a boy.
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  • Well since my DS is technically my SS, he already had DH's name when I met DH, so I had no choice in the matter.  I would NOT have made him a junior though, had it been my choice.  Since we call my DH Matt & my DS Matthew, there is some differentiation as to who we are talking about at home, but that will change soon enough.  At school they call DS Matt, so when his friends call, I am sure they will ask for Matt. 

    It's a shame, because DH said he wasn't even pushing for a "Jr", they just couldn't decide on a name... so that was it.  I'm of the feeling that each child deserves their own name.  We are using my stepdad's name for this baby's middle name, but I feel that that's a lot different from using it as a first name. 

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  • I told DH that I would 100% support a junior if that is what he wanted, but he has a son already (he's 17 and not a junior) and well he doesn't really like his name so I don't think we'll have a junior if LO is a boy.
  • My husband is a Jr. and opted to not make our son a III. Instead, he chose a version of his name. His name is Jesse and our son's name will be Joshua (which has a similar meaning). He also chose to give him a middle name beginning with the same letter as his own middle name, so they'll have the same initials!
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  • We are still talking about it.  He will either be a Jr. or the other name we picked.  Still 50/50 at this point.  I like my husband's name though.  It's Jonathan Robert.
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  • DH gave a big fat "NO!" to this baby being a Jr.  I don't know why.  He has a classic name that has been in the boy top 10 for over 20 years so it's not like it's a weird name. 
  • No. We are not into the junior thing for a first name, naming after mom or dad.
  • DH is a Jr., and he wants a third if it's a boy. I don't.

    We are butting heads about this. 

  • SO vetoed a Jr. He also vetoed any name that starts with the same letter since he and I both have names starting with the same letter (ie: He is Dave and I'm Darla so he vetoed any names that started with D)
  • DH is David the 8th.

    This baby will be David the 9th.  I can't mess up something that's been going on for 200 years.

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    DH is David the 8th.

    This baby will be David the 9th.  I can't mess up something that's been going on for 200 years.

    I feel the same way my DH is the 5th so I really have no say in the matter when we do actually have a boy. I think his family would murder me if I didn't let it happen or if I changed it. lol

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