I met a Rebecca in my birth classes and she was naming her daughter Rebecca because she loved her name that much. I don't like my name enough to give my daughter the same first name...MAYBE as a middle name but probably not!
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Only on Gilmore Girls. In my religion we only name after deceased relatives.... so we can't name after ourselves.
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No I dont want any of our LOs having any same names as us. It is such a lifetime of annoying mistakes by banks, mail system, etc. I work for a bankruptcy attorney and I can't even tell you how often people in the family with same names have their finances messed up because the financial institutions thought the other person filed and they didn't.
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I would feel weird naming a kid after myself! My mom gave me her middle name, so she and I have the same one, which I like. So I personally would say no on the same first name, but sure on the same middle name!
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I don't know anyone and wouldn't do it myself, but why not, right? Dads get to name their sons after themselves all the time.
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Oh and the only female I know who has the same name as her mom got abandoned by her when she was a child and she hates that they share a name. So my experiences of this are pretty negative.
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@Andrea: that's a good point!
I wouldn't, but I don't really have a good reason. I actually like my name and nickname. DH really wanted to name our daughter Addison, but I felt like that was weird - my name is Alison, so all I could picture is the Christmas card.."Love, Husband, Alison & Addison"...when you say it aloud it sounds like lisping!
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DD's middle name is my middle name, which I really love because it's a family name. I wouldn't want to pass on my first name, though; I like that it's just mine and nobody else's!
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My mom's good friend named her daughter after herself. And my grandma was named after her mom (my great grandma). My grandma will gladly tell you over and over again how much she hated being named after her mom. She was always "little Roberta" and she despised it. lol And we always call the other girl "little first name" I wonder if she's sick of it too. I would never name my daughter after me... just a personal preference.
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My mom was named after her mom, and my sister-in-law was named after my mother-in-law. The eldest boys in both families were named for their father's too. (Both dads were juniors and both sons were named IIIs.) Clearly, both sides almost expect a family name for our kid, though like y'all, I'd feel funny naming a kid (first name) for myself.
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I wouldn't do a first name, but I would give my daughter my middle name (and if we have a second one plan to do so.)
I did have an acquaintance who named her first daughter her real name, however she has always went by her middle name so no one really knew they shared a name!
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Well, my mom has the same first name as her mom, but she goes by two names (grandma is Mary, my mom is Mary Ann.) I think that was really common back in the 50s. My middle name is Mary, which i like since it's after my mom and grandma, and I will probably do the same if I have a daughter. But not the same first name. I wouldn't want someone to always be little anyway, and I don't like my name that much. But for sure middle names-- I always like middle names to be family names.
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Like @Honeybee I wouldn't name my LO after me, I'm too selfish! I love my name...and the fact that I've never met anyone else with it.
I did give her my middle name though, not because it is my middle name but because it was my daddy's name. Since she will never get to meet her grandpa, it warms my heart knowing she has his name in the middle spot (it would've been her first but I'm not a fan of gender neutral names).
To answer the OP's question, I do not know anyone who has done this but I did see it on a baby show! I don't see the problem with it since dad's do it all the time.
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Nope. I think it's just way too confusing. But I'm also not OK with naming a son after my husband so it's not a gender thing for me.
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My daughters and my name are both derived from Elizabeth but different halves of that name.
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I think its too confusing to have two people with the same first name living together. My dad and brother have the same name and like@highwire: said its a lifetime of annoying little mistakes here and there
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Olive's middle name is Bee!
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I think it's cool! Men do it a lot, so I don't know why women don't do it more. I'd probably use a nickname though - like Lorelai and Rory on Gilmore Girls. Best show ever.
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I know dads, but no moms!
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I wouldn't do it (although DS's first name is Evan, and DH's middle name is Evans) but DH's grandmother named his aunt after herself (Rachel), allegedly at her husband's insistence. She goes by her middle name (Diana) to everyone, though, even her mother.
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@highwire: My mom gave me her maiden name as my middle name and I hated it forever because she left when I was very young. But then she died not too long ago, and in Korea (b/c she happened to die there) they refused to believe that any of my American documentation was valid, and the fact that we shared a name was pretty much the only proof they believed that I was her daughter. This totally changed how I felt.
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A family from my church have a son that is a "Fourth" and then their daughter was named after the mother- First Middle and Last. I always thought it was sort of weird...
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My daughter shares my middle name. It is a family name.
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My parents gave my brother and I their first names as our middle names and we always thought it was weird - but the names do all sound nice together! I never thought I would do it but we are actually considering a form of my name as a middle name if we have a girl! It sounds good and it's one of the only combos we've been able to agree on so far.
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My mom is named after her mom but neither of them go by their actual first names lol. They’re both Jewell but my grandma goes by Judy (which isn’t even her middle name…she just had people call her that because she liked it better) and my mom goes by her middle name, Lazel. I wouldn’t give my daughter my first name but I am planning on giving a potential future daughter my middle name. I think that it sounds good with almost any first name and it is a family name, Faye.
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I've always gone by my middle name. I would definitely give my first name to my daughter. It's a family name, and now that I'm married, it's not even my name anymore.
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I'm named after my mom. It's an unusual name that my grandfather made up, so she wanted to keep it "alive".
My DH coincidentally is named after his dad.
We have agreed to not pass the names down again as first names, but possibly as middle names.
Our two girls didn't get my name at all though, and I don't mind because we love the names we chose for them instead. If we have #3, a boy would likely get DH's first name as a middle... If it's a girl, maybe my first name as a middle name, but def not as a first name.
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@artbee: I immediately thought of Gilmore girls too
Wonder Baby has the same middle name as my mother and I do. I think having the same first name would be confusing.
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My DH and SIL have the same names as FIL and MIL, respectively. It has lead to some paperwork mix-ups in the past, but nothing too unmanageable or that couldn't be fixed. On my side, we had three generations of guys in one house with the same name- that got annoying because any company (like a bank) who called often didn't know which one they wanted.
DH and I have gotten some jokes about using the family name, but people won't be upset if we don't. We are not- our LO will have a different name of our choosing.
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Nope-if we have a boy I won't even let DH name him "George" as a first name because BIL and FIL are already George; I will allow that as a middle name. I'm OK with family names to a point, DD was named after DH's deceased maternal grandmother and if this baby is girl her middle name will be my MIL's first name which was also my grandmother's middle name (both deceased).
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My daughter's name is a close variation of my name (same beginning, different ending). It was my husband's idea, and I was very resistant at first...I've taken most of the nicknames, and thought it would be confusing. Some people do mix up our names, which is a little annoying, but I love my name so the trade-off is worth it to me. And I kept my maiden name so she has a different last name...so I also love that our first names are connected.
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Nope I know boys as jrs. but no girls!
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@artbee: Not to threadjack, but that's interesting! Random question, say your husband was named after a deceased great-grandfather, would that take his name out of the running because there is a living relative with that name? Just curious!
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I have a friend Susan whose mother was also named Susan. Seems pretty weird to me.
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I share the same first name as my mother. Never been an issue. & it is not a common name.
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@ladyfingers: Hmmm... I guess as long as you say you're naming after the great grandfather and not the husband you'd be ok. Personally I wouldn't want to do it.... it would make me too nervous. Most people don't use the actual name though, they just use the person's first initial, so I don't think that problem would come up often.
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@artbee: Interesting - thanks!
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