https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 02 May 2026 09:40:42 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245904 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 19:30:04 +0000 hellocupcake 2245904@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Juniors are very common in our family and our culture, since DH was a 3rd I couldn't NOT name DS after his Great grandpa, grandpa and DH. I love it. The name is totally unique and fits them all very well. DD has my middle name, only because I inherited the name from my mom. We're so creative over here :) haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245901 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 19:23:14 +0000 bloved 2245901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We named ds after his great grandfather, mostly because we both really liked the name anyway so it was just an added bonus to honor my husband's grandfather as well.<br /> If we ever have a girl, we will be using her great grandmothers' name as a middle name (which also happens to be my first name). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245894 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 19:03:45 +0000 Finfan 2245894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We named DD after our grandmothers. Her first name is DH's paternal grandmother's name and her middle name is after my paternal geandmother's first name (also my sister's name). Both namesakes are deceased. I never met my grandmother and DH'a died shortly after our wedding. </p> <p>We are considering giving this LO my mom's first name as her middle. The first name will be one we just like though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245870 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 17:42:41 +0000 Charm54 2245870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD's middle name was easy because it's a name I love and it also happens to be my MIL and my mother's first name :)</p> <p>This one is a little harder. We are TG - if it's<br /> A boy, it will get my maiden name as a first name - if it's a girl I have no idea who we will name her middle name after!! I like the idea of some sort of family connection </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245767 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:55:19 +0000 Mrs.LaFountain 2245767@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are currently TTCing number one. If we have a boy he will be Kenneth William. Kenneth is both our maternal grandfathers name. William is DH's and his fathers middle name. Girl we plan on using my mother or his mothers name as a middle name. Ruth or Vivienne. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245766 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:50:47 +0000 Torchwood 2245766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We knew L's first name before we even got pregnant, but we debated the middle name. We could have gone with my (deceased) grandmother's middle name, DH's middle name (which is a family name shared by a lot of his family members), or one that we just liked (technically it would have been naming her after a character from a show). The main factor wound up being which we liked the sound of most, with who it was more important to being a close second. Since we aren't having another and will never have a boy, DH knew he wouldn't be able to pass on the middle name to the oldest son, as is tradition in his family. And it meant a lot to him to give it to her. Since the name from my family is a little more popular than I'd like, and we weren't totally in love with the other, it just made the most sense to go with DH's. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245683 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:01:24 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2245683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was a hypothetical name your baby girl *now* thread and I chose a name honoring both my mom and MIL. It was a variation of my mom's name that I've always loved and MIL's name seemed to go well as a middle name. </p> <p>However, I was completely against naming a baby after anyone with DD and if we were to have another baby, I think I'd go against it. If we magically had a baby when that old thread was written, I would have regretted her name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245652 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:54:58 +0000 78h2o 2245652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD1: chose Julia just because we liked it, but I did also have a grandfather named Julius. Chose Catherine as the middle in honor of my mom, Catherine.</p> <p>DD2: Chose Holly in memory of one of my best friends who died after a long battle with cancer when I was pregnant with DD1. Holly would have been more appropriate for DD1 who was born in December (vs DD2 born in May), but it felt too soon and I didn't feel comfortable using the name at that point. DD2's middle is Louise, which is my MIL's middle. It flowed better than her first and also, gave baby more of her own name than if we'd used MIL's first, since with the last name being the same, it read like, "Holly MIL's full name". I love that my girls' names honor their grandmothers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after/page/2#post-2245636 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:20:30 +0000 getjazzy 2245636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thinking about naming DD after my mom. At first I felt bad, thinking what will MIL think etc... but, since this is #2 and MIL has shown she doesn't really want to be an active role in ours and DS/DD's life, while my mom plays a HUGE role, I don't feel bad anymore.</p> <p>My mom's first name is also my middle name, so it would kind of be a cool thing to be carried on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245590 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:29:31 +0000 lawbee11 2245590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't want to name her after someone still living (I'm not Jewish just prefer naming after deceased relatives). She was already getting DH's last name so I thought it was fair that her middle name be from my side. We ended up giving her the feminine version of my maternal grandfather's name as a middle name. Her first name isn't a family name from either side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245586 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:11:07 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 2245586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My Nana (Dads mom) was really hoping I would have her middle name but my mom just happened to have the same middle name and didn't want to name me after her so I decided early on that if I ever had a girl (which we did with DD) her middle name would be Lynn (Nana spells it Lynne and mom spells it Lyn so I combined the two spellings to honor them both.)</p> <p>With DS, DH really wanted to honor his Grandfather so we knew the middle name would be Alan. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245572 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 07:05:08 +0000 sugarbee0822 2245572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We decided that we are going to use our Mom's maiden names! So for a boy it will be my Mom's maiden name as the first name and for a girl it will be my Mother-in-law's maiden name (she passed 5 years ago) as the first name! They are both unique names but we are both closer with our Moms side of the families that we thought it'd be nice to honor them! We are ttc and I'm happy with both names so I can't wait to e<br /> be able to use one them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245534 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:37:50 +0000 birdofafeather 2245534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD1's middle is a play on my middle, which is also the feminized version of my dad's middle and my great-grandpa's first. DH actually came up with it and we loved it. For DD2, we're trying to find a middle that means something to us but we're coming up short. Might just go with names we like! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245518 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:36:53 +0000 Grace 2245518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter's middle name is after my cousin who died when we were 15. I didn't do it to honour her, per se, but I knew that LO would want to know why that is her middle name. It's a way of making my cousin important to my LO, even though she's been dead so long that most of my younger cousins don't remember her at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245513 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:19:29 +0000 ALV91711 2245513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For DS he has his own first name which is a name we like and then his middle name is after my late father. It also happens to be FIL's name and BIL's name but the spelling is different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245456 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:20:30 +0000 kjpugs 2245456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went off of both names we liked and our relationships with those people. We named both girls after DH's grandma and great grandma. We liked the names and he had fond memories of spending summers with them. Middle names were from my family. My grandma whose name I LOVE (she passed in 2000) and my middle name which is my moms first name- starting the tradition of using it as a middle name. We had some names (DH's mom and maternal grandma) that I liked but due to relationships with them, would never use. I also have beloved relatives (my grandma Delores) who I wouldn't use due to connotations with the name (Seinfeld episode....) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245454 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:15:10 +0000 brady80 2245454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter is named for my maternal grandmother (first name) and my husband's paternal grandmother (middle name). His grandmother passed away when I was 6 months pregnant and my grandmother was still alive at the time of her birth. We were both very close with our grandmother's (mine was my primary care giver when my mom was at work). And we wanted to honor both of them....and the names go very well together! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245452 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:13:59 +0000 sapphire 2245452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Babe's middle name is my mom's name. No one in the family had been named after her and her name flowed well with the first name we chose. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245408 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:01:46 +0000 Ms. RV 2245408@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I'm in a similar situation! My LO's middle name will be the same first name as my grandmother, aunt, and OH's mother. All three have the same first and middle name. Due to my mom's extreme dislike of her mother and jealously issues with OH's mom, we're just saying it's because we like the name :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245406 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:55:46 +0000 gentlelunette 2245406@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DDs middle name was non-negotiable. It's in honour of my sister. She has special needs, and will never be able to have a child (despite wishing she could!). She's been my inspiration for just about everything I've done in my life, and so I wanted to be sure she was honoured in a special way. She was so excited when we told her the name. It was so special. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245401 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:47:13 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2245401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS first name is my husbands paternal grandpas name. He passed away before DH was born but is a very missed man. His middle name is my paternal grandmas middle name which is her moms maiden name! Basically both were cool names so it worked out!</p> <p>Next one if its a boy will be my maternal grandmas nick name (boy name I mentioned on the last thread about naming a kid today) and DHs maternal grandpas name. </p> <p>I love using family names!! Trying to honour each side of the family! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245400 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:46:39 +0000 lovehoneybee 2245400@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D's middle name, his dad's middle name, and his paternal grandmother's maiden name is Evans, so we would have been using it regardless, but we chose to make it a first name. Charles is my MIL's maiden name, and was my choice to honor her side of the family. </p> <p>LO2 will be Grace, which is D's much beloved paternal grandmother. It was non-negotiable for D. Middle is yet undecided, but probably won't honor anyone because I want it to start with an E and the only E name on either side is Evans.</p> <p>Using family names is tradition and really important to D's family, but not on my side. Plus there are no names there that I love enough to want to use, and no one I'm close enough to to want to honor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245396 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:33:09 +0000 regberadaisy 2245396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had two very specific people we wanted to honor that meant a lot to both of us. His maternal grandmother and my deceased BIL. Dd1 has grandmothers first name as her middle and dd2 had a female version of BIL's name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245395 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:26:36 +0000 fancyfunction 2245395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to honor my mom and grandmothers so M's middle name is a shortened version of both my mom and paternal grandmother's name as well as version of my maternal grandmother's mother. I felt it encompassed everyone in a way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245394 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:24:20 +0000 lady baltimore 2245394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Once we decide on a last name, LO's middle name will honor the other side of the family. Within that framework, however, I've just assumed we will pick the name we like best (from among the people we don't want to AVOID honoring :wink:). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245387 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:03:52 +0000 Ginabean3 2245387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD1's middle name is my mom's maiden name and DD2's middle name will be MIL's maiden name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245386 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:59:23 +0000 cascademom 2245386@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS #1-we chose DH's maternal grandparents' last name as middle name. It was one of the things we knew for sure when naming. His first name was more my husband's choosing than mine.</p> <p>DS #2-We had a few names we liked. Went with one for my maternal uncle and because I liked the name. His middle name is heavily used in my family and on the maternal side of my family. I got final say on the name this time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245373 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:41:09 +0000 Mamasig 2245373@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS1 shares a middle name with DH. It was DH's idea and I was ok with it. It's not my favorite name but that's ok. </p> <p>For DS2, we looked to family names for inspiration. His 1st name was my maternal grandfather's name. His middle name is my father-in-law's middle name. They were the two names I liked and important men in our families. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245328 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:21:58 +0000 MrsB2012 2245328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Myself, my mom, my grandma, and I believe her mom ( that or it was my grandmas moms name.) all had the same middle name. I don't really like the name, and ( as you can tell ) don't even know who the lady is haha. So we went with my grandmas name. I really like the name and she's a really special lady, so it was kinda a no brainer for us. For our second daughter I really wanted to give her my moms name as a middle name. We named our daughter ( her first name ) after my moms uncle ( a female version of his name ) who was really really special to my mom, so it was nice to have their names together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-decide-who-to-name-a-baby-after#post-2245322 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:13:56 +0000 Woolly Mammoth 2245322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My FIL died shortly after we got married, so it was kind of an obvious choice to name a boy after him.</p> <p>We ended up using his middle name as LO's middle name. It was FIL's father's name and DH's middle name as well.</p> <p>My middle name was my mother's middle name a ND my grandmother's first name as well, so if we have a girl in the future we will likely use that as a middle name. </p>