name post/vent: need advice!

Re: name post/vent: need advice!

• Soap1 member

  September 2009

  I'm not entirely sure what you're concerned about.  Just that both names would have Jackson in them?  I guess it would be one thing if they were both going to be called Jackson, but neither of them are, so I really don't think it's a big deal.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  

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• ajf31

  September 2009

  you are the one pregnant AND the names are different so if you have a boy name him what you want!

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• GeneGoddess

  September 2009

  And the names Jack and Jackson are so incredibly popular right now.  It's like being ticked off that someone else is naming their child Emma or Hannah.
  

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• caremore37

  September 2009

  fionacaitlin:

  So our boy name we have picked out is Jackson Thomas. (Team Green)

  Background: If SIL has another baby boy (she had a girl last year) she wants to name him R.J. to stand for Ronald Jackson. His name on his birth cert. will be R.J. literally an R & a J. (weird I know) WITH the intention that they got the name from Ronald Jackson.

  Ronald= DH's grandpa

  Jackson= his best friend who was killed in Korea and is MIA.

  I had already talked to SIL about our name.....we have NO intention of naming him Jackson because of the friend. We just LOVE the name & intend on calling him "Jack."

  SO last night at my niece's 1st birthday......DH's grandpa's wife was there & she asked if we had names picked out & I told her Jackson Thomas if it was a boy. She was like hysterical & so excited & kept asking if it was after anyone & we said "no, we like the name." Then she went on to tell us about the friend MIA. I played dumb like I didn't know.

  SIL has YET to tell Grandpa & wife (not grandma..lol) about the name R.J.

  I mean what if they don't have another boy? I'm just nervous SIL is pissed because I'm sure Grandpa's wife said "don't you just LOVE they name they picked out, etc." & SIL thinks we are stealing her thunder.

  okay that was longer than I thought...sorry ladies! Any input is greatly apprectiated = )

  So let me get this straight.  You're worried about SIL being upset b/c she wants to name a hypothetical baby that she may or may not have sometime in the future with the same middle name as your baby's first name, even though it won't really BE his name, just the initial that stands for that name???  Yeah, no, she has no dibs, and I would totally NOT change the name you've picked out.

  No one can 'call' a name, anyway.  Now since your kids will be first cousins, if she had planned on the same first name as your child's and it was a name with very special meaning, and your reasoning was just that you liked it, then I would probably concede to her because it was a special circumstance.  However, with this situation, even if they name him the actual names and nickname him RJ, I still don't think it's reason enough to change the name you've chosen. 

  JMO...  hope she isn't unreasonable!!
  

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• Workingon#3

  September 2009

  This one seems really easy. You are having a baby and like the name. She might have a baby someday and use wants to use an initial.

  Someone needs to put on her big girl panties or jump in the time machine, get pregnant 7 months ago, make sure the baby grows an extra apendage and claim the name not just the initial.

  Sorry she is being a pain. If you love the name I say use it.

  My cousin and I named our first children the same name and didn't even know about the other using the name at the time. It worked out just fine.

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