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family names?
ok so we arent telling the name until baby is here so we have a "surprise" to tell i guess. idk? and if i tell yall i feel like im cheating so sorry but i wont.
me and DH decided when we were still dating that if and when we had a baby we would name him/her my moms maiden name for the first name and his moms maiden name for the second name. they are actually really cool names and go well together.
anyone else doing something similar?
edit: to say.... my mom is my best friend and DH's mom passed when he was only 15 so needless to say these names mean ALOT to us and we are SO excited to share with everyone!
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Re: family names?
Nothing too exciting for us, but we had decided early on that if we have a boy he would have my DH's middle name and if it was a girl, she would have mine! DH's it is!
We pass down family names with middle names.
DS #1 Dawson (matthew) Matthew is DH's middle name.
DS #2 Emerson (Mckinley) Mckinley is DH's gpa's middle name.
We are doing the middle name thing as well.
DS: Elijah Lee (DH's father's MN)
LO #2: Nathan James (My Gpa's name)
We are doing the middle name thing as well.
DS: Elijah Lee (DH's father's MN)
LO #2: Nathan James (My Gpa's name)
We are doing the middle name thing as well.
DS: Elijah Lee (DH's father's MN)
LO #2: Nathan James (My Gpa's name)
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Addison Michelle (SIL's MN)
We are doing the middle name thing as well.
DS: Elijah Lee (DH's father's MN)
LO #2: Nathan James (My Gpa's name)
I like that idea. Unfortunately my mom's maiden name is Krause & MIL's maiden name is Slater so it wouldn't sound very cool.
I was named after my dad's father (Gene) & mom's mom (Alice), which somehow became Gena Alyss. So if LO is a boy, his MN will be Gene & if LO is a girl, her MN will be Alyss.
And BTW, we're not sharing our name picks w/friends or family either, I really don't need anyone else giving their opinion on what to name my kid!
My husband was born a Kennedy, his last name didn't change until his father claimed him and his mother legally switched his last name... long story short, We both have always liked the idea of using Kennedy for a boy or girl somehow in the name....
I am very big on picking a name bc of meaning... I for some reason just can't pick a name out of a book bc I like it.... I need a reason for it.
My DD's first name is after her great great grandmother, and her middle name is the same as my 2 best friends since I was 4 years old... I like that there is a story and meaning behind her name.
before we found out we were having a boy we had a girl's name picked out which was :
Lillian Venetia = I have always wanted a daughter named Lillian (Lily) and Venetia is Vivian (my moms name who passed away almost 6 years ago) in greek (which I am greek)
but then we found out we are having a boy. I like the name Manoli (which is greek for Manuel) and my SO's name is Jose Manuel so we are flipping it and naming our little boy Manuel Jose so my Greek side of the family can call him Manoli and my SO's spanish side of the family can call him Manuel
Unfortunately our LO has about 6 nicknames already he shall be VERY confused
we are staying away from family names all together.
dh's parents are divorced and it's a giant cluster F of jealousy.
so nothing like that in our family....
our baby's Middle name will be Elisabeth, which is my middle name.
If it were a boy though, his name would be Robert Elliot, Elliot is DH's first name
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DD's first name is a version of my late great-grandmother's name. Her middle name is Elizabeth--- my middle name and also my mother's middle name--- which also happens to be my late grandmother's first name!
For this LO, if it is a boy, he will have DH's name--- first and middle. If a girl, we will have to decide- but the middle name will definitely be a family name.
aww im sorry. my parents are high school sweetheart and DH's parents passed when he was young so we dont really have to worry with that.
When DH and I were dating we picked out a baby name if we had a boy (we were always a cart before the horse sort of couple). We plan on using my late grandfathers name for our sons middle name, which is also the first name given to my cousin.
Boy: FN will be my Dad's name, MN will be DH's MN.
Girl: FN will be a name we like (not a family name), MN will be an old family name (my great-great grandmother's name).
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Yep.
Elena's MNs are for Nate's great-grandmother (Rosalie) and for my grandma/MIL (Anya).
Lucas' MN is for Nate (James).
This baby is either going to be Alessandra or Alexander after my grandma, Aleksandra. The MNs that are being considered are some family names too.
yeah its a giant cluster. My parents are still together. But there is great grandparents on both side of dh's family, so they would fight. Its pretty stupid when you think about it. The jealously between them in ridiculous.
we named ds's middle name after dh. and apparently (I didn't know this). Its family tradition in dh's family to name each son the fathers name as the middle. But if we do that, then aren't we still choosing a family type tradition? Thus defeating the purpose of no family names so no sides of the family get their feelings hurt??
I haven't mentioned this to dh, but plan too. Still seems to me its a way to honor his family legacy and by doing that, mine family gets the shaft.
Its competetive shiiit and I hate it. But they all just get so jealous, my parents included.
wow that sucks. see all my family is still alive but i have such a BIG family no one really cares about names being passed down but everyone does have their two cents about things in general which is why we are keeping it secret i guess.
DH's mom died when he was 15 and his dad died when he was 21. his dad did remarry so we still have DH's step mom that we see about once a month or so but other than that we dont see any of his family. he ahs siblings but they live all over the country and the only one we speak to lives about 8 hrs away.
although DH's brother's (that he speaks to) wife is also pregnant and they have decided to go team green but have announced that if its a boy they will name him a name that has his mother maiden name in it.. it kinda touched a soft spot when they first said it only because we have had ours picked out for a long time but whos to say they havent and besides its not exactly the same. ill just cross my fingers they have a girl. ::evil grin::
Rachel and Jeff Married 5.29.05
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Katherine is 18 months
It took us about five seconds to agree to name a boy after his maternal grandfather and my paternal grandfather. And there are reasons no one will care (nothing negative) that the other two get left out.
And it happens that my maternal grandmother and his paternal grandmother have the same first name so we figure that has to be a girl's middle name. We'll have to come up with a first name from scratch, however, because there's just nothing particularly attractive on either side.
If there aren't political considerations, family names can really simplify things. Fewer people wrinkle their noses when it's in honor of a late relative.
Years ago before we were even thinking about getting married, my now husband and I made a list of our future children's names (and we actually agreed immediately on!), except, we then lost the list....
but, now-we are still deciding boy: Dominic Paul (like the name dominic, he has relatives with this name, paul is my dad and grandfather-and me) OR Anthony Reno, which-my husband is an Anthony and Reno was his grandfather.
Girl-we like Cecelia Perry, which is after a catholic church we drive by on the way to his parents house and we both love the name., and Perry which is after his great aunt who lived to be 103. Her name is really Pierina, which is beautiful, but just sounded too "off the boat" for us
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Now I'm really curious about this name! I think you've come up with a great way to name your LO. We don't have any family names in mind however my middle name flows nicely with our girl name and I really like the way DH's name sounds as a mn for our boy name.
I am.. if its a girl it will carry my grandmother on my mothers sides first name Adelyn and i came upw ith the middle name.
if its a boy it will carry a family name from my fathers side.. Thomas Garret.
the father isnt involved so i get to choose. and i chose these
its cool that your keeping it a suprise tho