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Crystal318
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Are you a fan of Juniors?
Crystal318
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Why or why not?
P.S. I am not married to the father (he is my boyfriend) but either way I will let the baby have his last name.
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Re: Are you a fan of Juniors?
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absofreakinlutely not. We have 2 juniors in my extended family who wind up being called "Little" constantly. These are boys who are over 6' tall, so it is just ridiculous and annoying.
Not to mention the mess it creates for credit reporting. I've had way too many friends who are juniors or higher who have had their father's stuff show up on their credit reports.
No way
The only time I've seen this done well is if they share a name that can be two different NN. For example, William (Dad goes by Will, Boy goes by Liam), or Andre (Dad goes by Andy, Boy goes by Dre).
Otherwise, it's just tacky and I feel like the kid has to live in his dad's shadow
Doesn't really bother me, but I can say that FIL and DH share the same first name and MIL still regrets naming DH this name to this day. She always says, "I should have named him (middle name) or called him a different NN"
My family has 2 women with the same name (my aunt named her dd for her sister) and we called this Auntie Sarah and Little Sarah. Little Sarah is mid-30s and STILL is called Little Sarah lol.
ETA- I agree with the credit reporting, we have had a few issues to clear up with credit reports before we bought our condo. Even though DH has a different middle initial than FIL, they still got them confused.
Not a fan either.
Credit issues is one reason.
But beyond that, I guess I just find it kind of egotisitcal. "My child must be named in its entirety after ME!". My son has my DH's family's last name. I wanted to honor my family too, while also giving DS his "own" name.
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No.
I just think it is confusing (in daily life, on credit reports, mailings, the list goes on) and that the child deserves his own name. I am all for using middle names that honor a family member, but I don't think the child needs the same.exact.name as his father.
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I don't like them. Although, I'm very conscious that my opinion makes no sense, because I love family names in general. I think I have a muddled/ poorly defined opinion that the baby should have his/her own identity and so needs a unique middle or first name, separate from the parent.
But, in all honesty, we will name all of our children with family names as either a first or middle; our first son, should we be so lucky, will share my grandfather's name exactly because it just so happens my grandfather's middle name is my husband's first name: )
I'm not a fan at all. I understand why people want to do this, but I can't help but always think it's total ego move to name a child after a parent. I feel kids should have their own identity.
I'm lucky that my DH is Jewish and in Judiasm it's considered bad luck to name a child after any living relative, so thankfully I don't even have to deal with this. Also in Judiasm, they more often just use the first initial of the name of the person you want to honor than the actual name.
I always get a "I'm so good I named my son after me" vibe from the guys who do that. I don't know - it's not my favorite thing. I think that there are so many wonderful names out there to choose from that it seems limiting.
My guy's family had this thing where it was his grandpa and his dad had the same first name, but two different middle names. The son went by his first name, while the dad went by a nick name. Anyway, it wasn't a tradition I was keen on doing, so we're not.
Here's another guy who doesn't like it....
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Not a fan.
My DH is a junior and he was very strongly opposed to having a III. He says being a junior is a real PITA many times.... he's a teacher and kids have prank-called his dad before, thinking it was him!
But really it's just confusing, because they had two people with the same name in the house, and they've had some confusion with bills and such as well.
I think its FINE and an honor to the person the child is named after.
My dad and brother are both Anthony (different MN)- So my dad is Tony and my brother is Little Tony... even though he is about 8 inches taller than my dad and 30 years younger!!!.. but I like having my dad and brother have the same name... I would consider naming my son Anthony too... perhaps I just like the name Anthony.. dont know.. but I think its nice to name the son after the father
DITTO DITTO DITTO... I have my mom's name (FN and MN) and my brother has my dad's name. When I got my first loan (a car) the lady told me that according to my credit report I bought a house BEFORE I WAS BORN! Seriously will NEVER do that to a kid of my own. DH even tried to name DS after him, we settle on using his name and DS' MN instead.
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