If you are naming your LO after a family member...

SheenaNash1 · October 2011

Are you telling them in any special way? We are naming Dean after my dad (its his middle name) and I'm just wondering if I should just say "hey we are naming him Dean after you" or do something special...any thoughts?

sunnyday016 · October 2011

We'll probably use a family middle name, and I'm thinking we'll just reveal it after he is born just by word of mouth. I'm not very creative though! I'm terrible at these type of things!

salt78 · October 2011

That's so sweet. I wish I had any creative/fun ideas. I'd probably just blurt it out haha.

Betty is named after my grandmother, who unfortunately is passed on. I like to think she knows though.

brittanyr23 · October 2011

We are using Vera as a middle name for DH's grandmother but she has passed on also. I wish we had a cute creative way of doing something special for it though!

Dewey12 · October 2011

I bet your dad will love that!

We don't know what we're having yet, but I was kind of hoping if we have a boy to make his middle name Anthony after my dad and brother. We would probably just wait to the baby was born to surprise them.

My aunt and cousin died in a car crash last year, so if we have a girl, I want her middle name to be Jaclyn after my cousin. My cousin has a 3 year old daughter who survived the crash, so I think she would like knowing that our (if we have a) daughter has her mom's name. I don't think we would tell anyone though until after the baby got here.

ETA: Misspelling of the name Jaclyn.

jules121606 · October 2011

I'm thinking about using Rhys as a middle name regardless if I have a boy or girl. My maiden name was derived from Rhys, so I thought that would be cute way to acknowledge my roots. The spelling is the male form, but I still think it's cute. I told my family about my plans and I think they thought it was cool (or they thought I was crazy but didn't want to say anything).

Dewey12 · October 2011

jules121606:
I'm thinking about using Rhys as a middle name regardless if I have a boy or girl. My maiden name was derived from Rhys, so I thought that would be cute way to acknowledge my roots. The spelling is the male form, but I still think it's cute. I told my family about my plans and I think they thought it was cool (or they thought I was crazy but didn't want to say anything).

I love the name Rhys! (It makes me think of the BBC show Torchwood.)

tash_rn · October 2011

If it's a boy the middle name will be Dutch after my grandpa, unfortunately my grandpa has passed so I can't tell him any special way. However, when I told my uncle's (my grandpa's sons) they all got kinda misty about it so now I wish I had told them in a special way! I would have if I had known they were going to get emotional about it!

Duckie205 · October 2011

No special plans. My FIL and Dad both know that if it's a boy, both their first names will be his middle names. It's long been decided. We really wanted our child to have their first name as their own, but we wanted to include family in the middle names.

Ivana_Stolichnaya · October 2011

If I have a girl I would LOVE to use my grandmother's name, June as a middle name. No one has used that name in my family yet and she was the only grandmother I ever got to know. Unfortunately she passed on in Aug. but I was trying to think if a neat way to tell family about the name choice.

This of course is if we are even having a girl, I won't find out until next Wed. (if the baby cooperates.)

McGibbon51311 · October 2011

Baby A's middle name is my father's FN. When we called him after our a/s scan to tell him the sexes of the babies, we also told him the names. I didn't think to do anything big about the name reveal, I just explained to him how the babies were doing, their names and why we wanted to honor my dad. I think it was cute how simple it was and I got to tell my dad by himself so it was a little more personal than announcing it at a party or something.

526SadieSadie · October 2011

If we have a boy, his first name will be either Aiden or Branden, the -den is for my dad, Dennis. His middle names will be Joseph (FIL) and Anthony (DH's deceased grandfather) I'll probably have to explain the first name thing to my dad, but I think he'll be excited.

SheenaNash1 · October 2011

sheveen2009:

Sorry, I am no help. Any family names we will use are all from relatives that have passed.

I am sure you dad will love it either way Sheena! I am the type of person who likes to do something special though. Maybe you could give your dad a copy of the u/s pic you have in your siggy (I think it has Dean's name on it)

Love this! thanks for the idea!

Thanks ladies for the replys!

LilyPotter218 · October 2011

For a boy we are toying with George Edgar (George is DH's grandfather and Edgar is mine). They have both passed away.

I am a 3rd generation graphic designer after Edgar, and then my dad. I spent my childhood doing art projects with him and after 3 years still miss him every day. I know my grandmother will appreciate it and do plan to take LO to "see" grandpa. I am not religious, but do take lunch to his grave on occasion to talk to him. It is more like a park than cemetery, they don't allow headstones, just flat markers so its not as creepy as it sounds!

I don't want to make a huge deal about it b/c my other grandfather is still alive and don't want to hurt anyone.

bigv44 · October 2011

Dewey12:

jules121606:
I'm thinking about using Rhys as a middle name regardless if I have a boy or girl. My maiden name was derived from Rhys, so I thought that would be cute way to acknowledge my roots. The spelling is the male form, but I still think it's cute. I told my family about my plans and I think they thought it was cool (or they thought I was crazy but didn't want to say anything).

I love the name Rhys! (It makes me think of the BBC show Torchwood.)

I love Torchwood!!

bigv44 · October 2011

My husband is thinking about using the middle name of our baby; if its a boy; of either his grandfathers or his brothers. But we are not sure yet....

It's so nice to pay tribute to our loved ones :-)

salt78 · October 2011

LilyPotter218:
I am a 3rd generation graphic designer after Edgar, and then my dad.

Yes! I love when it stays in the fam. (I'm 2nd gen after my dad...I used to help him out with all sorts of projects when I was little. I hope to do that kind of thing with B too.)

lizzymo19 · October 2011

Honestly I think once you tell him the name he will know. We told our parents name options, and we are only using family names as middle names, but still my dad cried when I told him our middle name for a girl was his mom's name.Also, we are using Dean as the middle name after DH's dad too (also his middle name) - Nice choice!

LilyPotter218 · October 2011

salt78:
LilyPotter218:
I am a 3rd generation graphic designer after Edgar, and then my dad.
Yes! I love when it stays in the fam. (I'm 2nd gen after my dad...I used to help him out with all sorts of projects when I was little. I hope to do that kind of thing with B too.)

I think I decided what I wanted to be when I was about 7 after getting my first set of Prismacolors

I can remember when they were re-designing Jif, my dad brought home a few versions for me and asked what I liked about them.

Still have not gone the package design route as they both did, but it is where I would like to end up

SheenaNash1 · October 2011

lizzymo19:
Honestly I think once you tell him the name he will know. We told our parents name options, and we are only using family names as middle names, but still my dad cried when I told him our middle name for a girl was his mom's name. Also, we are using Dean as the middle name after DH's dad too (also his middle name) - Nice choice!

We yes, obivously he will get it, he knows his own middle name lol. I was just wondering if I should just tell him or get him a card or something a little bit more "formal".

Yay for Dean as a name choice!

Charlyne · October 2011

We're using Richard for the MN, which is a family name on my dad's side. My dad, grandpa (passed), and cousin are all Richard and my brother's MN is Richard.

hlolrich · October 2011

We are using David as the middle name. It's for my dad who passed away almost 10 years ago (crazy how fast time flies). It's the one piece of my dad we can give our little guy even though he won't get to meet him. I like to think Dad is looking down on us and knows about the naming Smile

No big reveal but I will tell my grandparents and aunts on my dad's side. They'll all be thrilled about it and I'm sure there will be some tears.

megs81 · October 2011

I have Alexander on my short-list for boys names, either as a first or middle name. My Mum's Dad was Alexander and he passed about a year before I was born. But my Mum idolised him and my Grandma, who partially raised me when my Dad left and who I miss terribly, obviously thought the world of him so I'd love to honour him.

And Madeleine will definitely be the middle name, if not the first name, of a girl. My husband's Nanna passed away when I was 6 weeks pregnant. She was the most beautiful woman who meant the world to me. The really nice part of the story is that my FIL was able to let her know that we were pregnant just before she passed. Although she was unable to speak by that stage, she did manage a smile when he whispered the news in her ear.

My only hesitation with using her name as the first name is that our baby girl would have the exact same name as Nanna... just not sure what FIL and his siblings would thing about it???

countrygrl5533 · October 2011

We are doing family middle names. It is tradition in my family for one of the girls to have the name of the father's "favorite" aunt. So if we have a girl, she will be Abigail Kathleen.

My brother has 2 girls and refuses to have any more children. So my maiden name will not be getting passed on another generation. My family is very important to me. To the point that my college diploma has my first, middle, maiden, and married last name on it. One of the few people in my family to go and graduate from college. So if we have a boy, his name will be Mark *my maiden name*.

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