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If one more person calls my son Junior...

bigbootyjudibigbootyjudi member
in August 2012 Moms

I will pull. my. hair. out!!!

We're naming our LO after my SO, Sergio. I hate when I tell people, "Oh, we're naming him Sergio," and the very first thing they ask is, "What are you going to call him?" Umm...Sergio? And then the next question, "Well, how will he be able to tell you're talking to him and not his dad?" Well, because I'm not going to tell my SO to come get his diaper changed or ask him if he wants a cup of juice. I think I can count the times I've called my SO by his first name on one hand because usually, it's just the two of us or he just knows I'm talking to him. 

I really hate the NN Junior (no offense to anyone going with it), so we thought we were smart in stressing that his name was going to be Sergio the IInd early on. Well, now, we have a few family members and friends referring to him as Junior, regardless of how many times I correct them. When I asked one of my friends what to do about this, she said, "I'd just have them call the baby Deuce!" Deuce...really? Shoot me.  

I'm calling him by his name. We gave him that name. Obviously, we like it and are going to be using it. Why would I name my son something if I was just going to call him something else?

End of rant. Thanks for reading, ladies!  

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  • phq2011phq2011
    I understand. I would love to have named my son after my husband, but I DESPISE junior. We opted for just keeping the same initials instead. However, Sergio is an awesome name, so I agree, no nn needed.
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  • mamahawk12mamahawk12 member
    We went through that briefly with DS who is named after his dad. We made it very clear that he was not "Junior" or worse, "J.R." - If you just ignore the comments and consistently use his name, it will catch on and others will follow suit. 
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  • JayandEmmJayandEmm member

    H still deals with this after 27 years, because he was named after his dad. It grates on his nerves when people address him as junior. He is not a "junior" he's "the second". He said he would rather be called "Little firstname" than "Junior".

    His mexican family address him as the english version of his name, to not mix it up when talking about him and his dad.

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  • DaniellekristaDaniellekrista member
    The little kid from the Blind Side is called SJ for Sean Junior. I think that is cute. I adore initials as NNs.
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  • allardrallardr member

    I agree with you about name confusion not happening as much as some people would think. My DH and his dad are both named Dave and it was not really an issue much. His family calls older one Dave and mine David. But even without that it's pretty clear most of the time. 

    We're naming our LO Annabelle and already people are like well will you call her Anna or Belle. I was like What? Both, it's her full name. They all want a nickname, but in my opinion nicknames come later when kids go to school and they're natural you don't pick a name and then decide on a nickname right away. If we wanted only one part of it that's what we would have chose, but we didnt. So they best be calling my baby Annabelle! :) 

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  • raza13raza13 member

    My SIL just had a baby in June named Aaron Jr after his father. His father goes by Ace actually but they call him Junior. I agree with you. why name him Aaron just to call him Junior. My IL's have a tendency to name a kid something then give him or her (usually her) a NN that they will exclusively call them by and it's years and years before they figure out what their actual first name is.

    Our son's name is Mark. Know what we're going to call him? Mark!! Easy Peasy

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  • Maggieb515Maggieb515
    DH is a IInd because his mom hated junior too. They eventually started calling him by his middle name. We decided not to name DS after him because his name is so common it's an inconvenience. However baby boy is still getting called junior. I'm sure it'll stop when his name is more associated with him after he's born. Good luck!
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  • bigbootyjudibigbootyjudi member
    imageJayandEmm:

    H still deals with this after 27 years, because he was named after his dad. It grates on his nerves when people address him as junior. He is not a "junior" he's "the second". He said he would rather be called "Little firstname" than "Junior".

    His mexican family address him as the english version of his name, to not mix it up when talking about him and his dad.

    My SO is Mexican, so his family will probably call our LO "Sergito," which means "little Sergio." I don't mind that because his brother is named after his dad and to this day (his brother is 23 years old), they call him "Baby," because when he was younger, they called him that to distinguish the two of them from one another. I'd much rather them call our LO Sergio than Baby when he's a grown man, lol.

    We're not giving him a middle name (my SO doesn't have one, it's not a common thing to do in the Latino community), so thankfully, we don't have to worry about someone using that as his first name either.  

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