https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:47:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1316499 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 05:21:01 +0000 tequiero21 1316499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really a tradition for our family. Usually, they get named by the paternal grandfather for their Korean name. The American names we just picked at the hospital cuz we wanted to fill out the birth certificate info. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1316281 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:52:45 +0000 indi 1316281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We picked a name we liked as her first name, and we'll use my maternal grandma's name as her middle name, as she was very special to DH and I. If we have another daughter down the road, we'll likely use DH's paternal grandma's name, since she was such a sweet lady with a rather unique name. </p> <p>My concerns were that of @looch:'s w/ the "history" of a name. We all have family names for middle names, and my poor brother is saddled with our dad's name as his middle name and pops turned out to be an ass, so now my brother hates his full name and refuses to use it. So our rule was "deceased relatives only, since they can't generally screw things up." Plus, a lot of our living relatives have some odd/unworkable names, so that rule got us out of that jam, too. ;-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1316225 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:33:59 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 1316225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used DHs mom's name as the middle name, which I don't really like (nor does his mother!) but it was really important to DH, so I went with it, because it wasn't super important to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1316214 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:31:11 +0000 AprilFool 1316214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO has 2 middle names, both after family. Her first is after my paternal grandmother and it was a non negotiable name. She meant the world to me and I miss her every day. </p> <p>Her second name is after my maternal grandmother who recently passed and I know it meant a lot to my mum to honour her. She brought it up a few times during my pregnancy. My nana hated her name, Ailsa, so I chose Isla. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1316187 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:22:12 +0000 fussygal 1316187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO Due in March will have DH's great-grandmother's name. He was very close with her growing up and I think the name is really pretty (Ruby). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1316161 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:14:00 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 1316161@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our boy is due in march and will have DHs paternal grandfathers name! But it was his name before he moved to canada and then he changed it. It's super cool to is, but back then it was too weird I guess. Middle name is going to be from my side. Right now probably my grans middle. Other options are my brothers name or my dads name. I love family names! We've got a lot of good middle name options on both sides of the family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1316110 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:58:51 +0000 Mrs. Cookie 1316110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So fun to read the stories behind everyone's name choices. Thanks for sharing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314469 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:54:47 +0000 MrsB2012 1314469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My middle name, my moms middle name, and my grandmas middle name are all the same. It was my grandmas moms name I think. I hate it. I said I'd never give it to my daughter. So when I had a girl, we gave her my grandmas first name. When I told my grandma I wasn't using my middle name, I think she was secretly sad. Then my daughter was born and we used her first name, she cried and cried she was so honoured hahaha.</p> <p>It's a 'thing' in my family to have the middle name after someone special. My husband and I both like that so we will continue doing that with the next ones. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314443 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:40:31 +0000 NavyRN2012 1314443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a family name with DS, after my husbands grandfather that he was extremely close to. We didn't use any family names with DD because I honestly just don't care for any of the female names of my grandmothers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314405 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:21:11 +0000 mrs. 64 1314405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If we have a son we will name it after my dad who is deceased. Any girl names or second son names will probably have family names, but more that we like them than to necessarily honor a particular relative. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314349 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:02:04 +0000 JessKas 1314349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used my husband's grandfather's name as our daughter's middle name. It goes well with her first name and I love that its unique for a girl's middle name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314345 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:59:58 +0000 Torchwood 1314345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband's middle name, Ray, is a family name and we have pretty much no choice about using it. We actually don't like it, since it tends to wind up sounding really redneck (and the family loooves to include it; he has a cousin who goes by Laura Ray even), but his family, and especially father, would be beyond offended if we didn't. DH likes the family aspect enough that he's not willing to upset everyone, even though he doesn't care for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314334 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:56:04 +0000 lovehoneybee 1314334@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is Evan Charles</p> <p>D's paternal grandmother's maiden name was Evans, and it's both his and FIL's middle name. If we hadn't decided that we liked it as a first name we would have used Evans as a middle name. So honoring a naming tradition, honoring his grandmother Grace (if we'd have had a girl her name would have quite possibly been Grace Evans McK), and because we liked the name. </p> <p>Charles is MIL's maiden name. We weren't as crazy about it, but I liked the way it sounded with Evan, and thrilled D's maternal Gram to no end. So that one was more of an obligation we put on ourselves...we were honoring the McK side with Evan, and wanted to bring something from the Charles side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314319 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:50:27 +0000 Dandelion 1314319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO's first name comes from my grandfather's grandfather, who left quite a legacy in our family. He immigrated from Ireland and was a really hard working man. I saw the name in the geneology book my uncle made for everyone in the family, and his name stuck out to me. It's not uncommon, either.</p> <p>LO's middle name is my dad's first name and also DH's grandfather's name.</p> <p>DS's first name comes from his dad's middle name, but his middle name was just something I liked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314280 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:35:30 +0000 SweetMamaM 1314280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, we will. If baby is a boy, his middle name will be the same as his dad's and grand-dad's. If baby is a girl, the middle name will be a variant on my mother's name.</p> <p>Second boy's middle name would memorialize a close family friend, second girl's middle name would be a family name from my dad's side.</p> <p>LOL we have put far too much thought into this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314208 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:05:40 +0000 BeachMama 1314208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD has my mom's middle name as her middle name (Kay). I wanted to honor someone in my family and the name went well with her first name. If we didn't like any of my family's names though we probably wouldn't have done it. If we have a son for #2 I'd like to give him my dad's name as his middle name (James). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314179 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:57:49 +0000 MrsH 1314179@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO will have two middle names - Both of my grandmothers. One is because I desperately miss my maternal grandmother and the other is to honor my dad that passed and since we can't use his name we will use his mom's. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314161 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:52:24 +0000 JoJoGirl 1314161@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted "other" - Jews have a tradition of naming babies after a relative who has passed using the first letter of that person's name. So naming a baby Rebecca after your grandma Ruth, for example. We sort of twisted this tradition and retranslated the English meaning of my grandmother's name into a different language since we didn't want to use the first letter. We dealt with the "picking sides" in that we were team green - if it was a boy, we'd name the baby after DH's Grandfather (first name) My Grandfather (middle name); if it was a girl, it would be My Grandmother (first name) DH's Grandmother (middle name). :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name/page/2#post-1314159 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:51:52 +0000 Foodnerd81 1314159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used my grandmother's nickname as baby's middle name. I wanted to use some version of the name since my grandmother and mom have the same first name, it's my middle name, and my other grandmother and MIL have other versions of the same name (all versions of Mary, like Maura, Marie, etc). But it helped an awful lot that we liked my grandma's nickname and it sounded great with the first name we chose. </p> <p>We had a harder time with boys names-- we probably would have gone with DH's middle name as a middle name for the baby if we had a boy. I like the idea of naming after my dad but don't like his first or middle name. I also like the idea of using my maiden name as a middle name but DH doesn't like it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314151 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:50:03 +0000 MrsStar 1314151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My deceased aunt's name is LO's middle name. We kept it a secret until she was born (my mum was there through the labor/birth) and we announced it to her and she burst into tears and was super grateful. If we have a boy then his middle name will be dh's dads first name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314145 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:49:08 +0000 Elderberrygin 1314145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH has a very close childhood friend who he considers a sister and we gave A. her name as a middle name. If we were religious she would've been A's godmother, but we're not so we went with a middle name in her honor instead. She said she cried at work when we sent out a text message announcing the birth and name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314130 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:42:44 +0000 MapleMoose 1314130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We chose to give DD the same middle name as her grandmother (my mom). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314129 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:42:38 +0000 LemonLong 1314129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, our LO was named after my grandmother (First name) and DH's grandmother (middle name). Her name is Lydia Lutitia. I don't love The name Lutitia, but I did love that I can pass down stories about her paternal great grandma to her. We call her Lyddie Lou sometimes which I think is kind of cute! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314121 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:38:56 +0000 Cherrybee 1314121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used my mum's middle name as DD's middle name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314118 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:36:44 +0000 doodlepoodle 1314118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep-we used my dad's middle name (the name he goes by) for J's middle name. He started crying when we told him :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314082 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:21:16 +0000 lemondrop 1314082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We choose a first name that we like and use a family name as a middle name- we've been taking turns, with our families. </p> <p>With C, we chose his first name to start with a C since my maiden name also starts with a C. My husband chose his middle name from a great uncle who helped him out a lot with schooling. </p> <p>With #2, we are still deciding on a first name, but his middle name will be my grandfather's first name or a part of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314081 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:21:01 +0000 ElbieKay 1314081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My deceased FIL's first name will be our son's middle name. It's also my husband's middle name.</p> <p>We're still deciding on his first name, but it will be chosen for aesthetic reasons rather than family significance. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314060 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:16:24 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1314060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used my mom and MIL's middle names as our daughters middle names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314056 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +0000 GrapeCrush 1314056@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS has the same middle name as DH and DD has the same middle name as me and my mom </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-honor-a-family-member-in-your-los-name#post-1314050 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:10:39 +0000 knittylady 1314050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS's first name was my dad's name. He passed away when I was 19. We were very close and I know he would have loved to have been here to watch his grandchild grow up. </p>