https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:43:50 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409899 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:00:19 +0000 lemondrop 1409899@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, no traditions to follow. I doubt my husband would follow it even if there was. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409778 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:23:15 +0000 cascademom 1409778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sort of. When we visited DH's family when LO was 7-8 months old, his uncle mentioned how one of his daughters (DH's cousin) has a middle name of a family maiden name. LO has DH's grandparents' last name as a middle name.</p> <p>For our next LO, it'll have my family's middle name conventions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409651 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:35:34 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1409651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>HEAVILY.<br /> Our son is named after my FIL and his middle name is DH's first name. Both of these are highly traditional in the middle-eastern culture. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409626 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:10:22 +0000 sunny 1409626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't give our LO a Chinese middle name. She has an unofficial Chinese name though. I feel guilty but only a tiny bit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409622 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:05:01 +0000 sera_87 1409622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>guys in my SO's family go by their middle name instead of their first and he has expressed a wish to keep that going. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409411 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:03:52 +0000 skipra 1409411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH's family usually gives the first born son their dad's middle name. I don't know how far back it goes and no one mentioned or pressured us to use it so we didn't. If we end up ever going for a third and it turns out to be another boy maybe we will consider it or a variation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409403 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:54:24 +0000 artsyfartsy 1409403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: Haha yeah same. If someone told me I had to name my child something, that would guarantee I wouldn't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409401 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:51:59 +0000 artsyfartsy 1409401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Kind of. My dad's side of the family has the family name of Earl, starting with my great grandfather Earl, grandpa J<b>EARL</b>D, great uncle P<b>EARL</b>, and dad J<b>EARL</b>D (who goes by his middle name). They intentionally spelled Jearld that way so it has EARL in it. </p> <p>I brought it up to my dad a long time ago that I might use Earl in my future sons name one day and he said absolutely not. Haha! He doesn't like it, even though he had it picked out as a middle name for my sister and I had we been boys.</p> <p>So I'm giving my son the same middle name as my dad instead. Reminds me of that Dixie Chicks song, Goodbye Earl. Lol </p> <p>This is the first male in my bloodline since my dad. Unfortunately after my sister and I got married our maiden name has died off completely. There's no living relatives to pass on my maiden name. Kind of sad. Unfortunately it doesn't work as a first or middle name or I would have used it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409303 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:34:55 +0000 MamaMoose 1409303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If someone told me I HAD to name my child something that's pretty much a guarantee I will not name my child that. </p> <p>My mom and I have the same middle name and I thought about using it for my daughter but ended up using my grandmother's name instead. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409298 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:27:45 +0000 looch 1409298@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Did not follow the tradition which is paternal grandparents, then maternal grandparent for first names of children. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409251 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:48:19 +0000 lovehoneybee 1409251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ish? </p> <p>Both D and his dad's middle name is Evans, and it was his paternal grandmother's maiden name. We would have passed it on as a middle name, but decided we liked it better as a first name, minus the S. </p> <p>His middle name is my MIL's maiden name, which she gave as a middle name to a BIL, so I guess sort of there, too? But not really a tradition yet, I guess, and not passed down directly from D. </p> <p>My side doesn't have any family naming traditions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409223 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:37:58 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1409223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband is, technically, a III. No one acknowledges that though. We didn't give our son that name, but no one told us we should or "had" to. </p> <p>We actually gave our son the family name from our good friend's family tradition. Our friend is FirstName MiddleName LastName the 17th. He named his son MiddleName only and broke the tradition in his family. We also named our son MiddleName.</p> <p>ETA: MiddleName is so rare, we'd never heard of it before and I never find in on any name lists or websites or even Google searches. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409177 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:45:06 +0000 MrsH 1409177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did not use my in laws typical middle name for girls. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409176 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:43:45 +0000 swedishfish 1409176@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There are naming traditions in my family but not down my line. I'm ambivalent about it. DH did ask me to follow Jewish tradition and not name R after a living relative. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409169 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:39:38 +0000 NCSUchick27 1409169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH is a II. We will definitely not continue the tradition if we have a son. DH thinks it is too confusing to have 3 people in our family with the same name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409127 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:46:12 +0000 rachiecakes 1409127@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a family name for a middle name but I gave J my dads first name as his middle. I kind of wish I put both in there to follow tradition but DH thought it was too long of a name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409125 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:44:38 +0000 matador84 1409125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All girls names end in A, but DDs won't! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409119 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:36:08 +0000 sandy 1409119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're considering it...my husband, his dad, and his grandfather all share the same first name...but they all have different middle names (so they aren't junior, III). At first my husband really wanted to continue this if we had a boy but now he's not so sure...he's open to other names now that we're TTC </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-follow-or-break-any-family-naming-traditions#post-1409116 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:31:38 +0000 autumnlove 1409116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friend just got engaged to a guy who is a III and her future in laws told them that their first born son HAS to be a IV. </p> <p>Did you follow or break any family naming traditions? </p>