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January 2012 Moms
Are you naming your LO after anybody?
Just curious who is naming their lo after a family member,friend..whoever and why. I had a sister Marissa who passed away in 1995 who was 4 yr old due to heart problems.People will come up and ask me if I'm naming my daughter after my sister and I tell them no. In my opinion and everyone is different, I just feel kinda weird naming my daughter Marissa after my sister. We have decided to name our daughter Abby Nicole. My sister's middle name was Nicole so I thought that would be more appropriate to do then her first name. Abigail will be her first name but we'll call her Abby. We just love that name and nobody is named her around where we live. When we named our son Nicolas people even asked if that was because my sister's middle name is Nicole. Didn't even put the two toghether. We just liked that name too.
Do people think it's ok to name their children after someone or against it?? I think it's a great way to honor someone you care about and miss deeply. I have been an only child technically since she passed. We were 9 years apart, I'm older. When our daughter comes, our kids will be 19 months apart. Scary, but at the same time I am super excited to see our kids bond and grow up together since I didn't get to experience that. 
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Re: Are you naming your LO after anybody?
Well we will be having a 2nd... named after his father. His full name will be Orrin Ellsworth and the reason why we are naming him after his father is because when we first found out we were pregnant I had told him I had a girls name all picked out and I wasn't going to budge on it and I gave him the decision of what the boys name would be all on his own. I did have one stipulation... he not be a junior but a second instead. I didn't want him be nicknamed OJ.
We use family names for the middle names of our children. This has been a tradition on my side of the family as far back as I can go. My middle name is my grandmother's name.
My DD's middle name is my mother's name and this baby's middle name is MH's twin brother's name. I think it is a great way to honor a family member.
Our daughter's middle name is my great grandma's middle name. So LO will be Hayden Ellen after her. DH knew her before she passed and we both agreed that naming LO after her was totally appropriate. We both loved and miss her so much. I think it's neat that DH got to meet my great grandma.
On a side note, I just had a grandma pass away the the end of November and everyone keeps asking if I am going to change LO's middle name to her name. No, we aren't and it's not that I don't want to honor that Grandma just as much its just that we had already settled on this and I knew I wanted to use Ellen a long long time ago. If we ever have another little girl I'm sure we will consider using her name for that one. It kind of made me feel bad at first but then I just decided to brush it off.
We are using Matthew for LO's middle name, after my little brother.
Yes, he will have the same middle name as his paternal grandfather.
Married April 1st 2017
DS #1: May 2009
DS #2: Jan 2012
Married 1/2/99.
TTC since 4/09.
Diagnosed PCOS. Diagnosed Hypothryoid 11/09.
SHG & SA normal. PCOS Research study started 5/10.
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11/12 - BFP #2 - 11/22 - m/c
5/1/11 - BFP #3 - Pre-eclampsia, IUGR & bed rest from 32w. DD born via induction 1/4/12.
We are naming our LO John R. VII because that name is important to my husband. He is VI and his dad and grandfather are both living so he is so excited to have 4 with the same name. It was a huge deal to his family and I was really upset we did not get to pick names I really liked.
BUT.... I did win a small battle and we are calling him Rhett because I want my LO to have a bit of his own identity. All of our future LO's will have family names like Hattie, Channing, or Brooks but I also love older names so we will throw in some of those too.
In your situation, I would have done the middle name thing, too, rather than first name.
If LO is a girl, her middle name will be the same as my great aunt, Grace. (grandmother's sister) just because we like the name... not really in honor of her. I'll make that clear because I don't want to hurt my grandmother's feelings or anything.
If LO is a boy, his middle name will be my father's name, William. We don't have a great relationship so it's really that I like the name more than in honor of him, as well. DS has DH/FIL's name as his middle name, so I figured it was the nice thing to do and it sounds good with the first name choice.
I like that the names have some kind of family tie, but not so much that the child doesn't have his/her own identity.
I wanted to name my LO after my brother (my brother has been incarcerated since I was 14 and he was 16, don't judge please). Me and my brother are very close, but having a boy named after my brother was too hard for my mom to handle so I decided to not go that route.
My LO will have the same last name as my DH and his father, who is deceased.
We're naming LO after DH's father. First middle and last name. Everyone thinks it will be too much of a pain for LO when he grows up because his first name is also DH's name (It goes: Edward James, Edward Martin, Edward James, then LO will be Edward Martin again) but DH was named after his grandfather and shared the first name with his dad and it hasn't ever really been a huge issue.
If we were having a girl we wanted her to have DH's grandmothers name in there somewhere. I wanted to have my grandmother's name in there too but it wasn't AS important to me as it was to DH. He has a very close knit (and awesome!) family.
The issue we had with LO's name was that my stepmom was trying to find a way to shove my dad's name in there somewhere. She even told people at my shower that we named LO Edward after my dad's middle name. To be honest if we weren't naming LO after my awesome, supportive FIL I still wouldn't have named him after my dad. Not that I hate my dad or anything, it was just never a thought in my mind to name my son after him (also I do hate his name...). I would have considered my grandfather's name first and then just went on to random names I like or historical names of cool people.
My daughter's middle name will be Nicole after one of DH's younger sisters. DH was supposed to be a girl & his parents were going to name him Nicole as well so it kind of has a double meaning.
DD 1/3/2012
BFP 5/21/2013 MC 5/24/2013
BFP 7/16/2013 EDD 3/27/2014
We use family names for middle names.
DS had DH's middle name and FIL's first name
DD had my brother's first name(feminine version).
This baby will more than likely share my middle name.
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My dad spent his summers living with his grandparents, and he was very close to his grandmother. So - if we have a girl, we are leaning towards using my great-grandmother's name, Roxanne, as her middle name. I think it's unique and my dad will be floored
My middle name is actually my maternal grandmother's maiden name (Taylor) so I love the idea of finding names we like in our lineage and incorporating them where we can! I love DH's grandmother's name (Lilian) but he doesn't like it so it's out of contention : (
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Yes.
If it's a boy the first name will be my husband's deceased brother's name (he passed away of cancer at 43) and the middle name will be his deceased father's/my deceased grandfather's (both had the same name) ....but we won't call the baby by either name...will use the initials as his name.
If it's a girl the first name will not be after anyone, but the middle name will be after my deceased grandmother.
Yup.... DD was named for my grandmother, helen. and for my MIL, whos middle name is Allyn. Our Daughter is Aileen. whic is a celtic form of Helen, just as Allyn is.
Our LO, is being named for my Brother, Van, who passed away 1 week after DD was born. And we are using my MIL sisters middle name as well. Vanessa Carlene.