Hellobee Boards Topic: How do you feel about Juniors?

Hellobee Boards Topic: How do you feel about Juniors? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 17:15:28 +0000 cheesetomywhine on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-177046 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:13:19 +0000 cheesetomywhine 177046@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My DH is a Junior and we are considering naming our LO (if a boy) after him. It is his first choice but I'm pushing for another. Especially since his dad lives with us. They both go by the same nickname so it'd be confusing! We'dThanfully we just came up with another family name that DH loves so that is a huge contender...even though it is much more popular than we originally wanted. All this to say is that I don't mind Juniors (though I agree with everyone else that for bills/credit/what not my FIL shows up instead of DH). Good luck! mediagirl on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-177026 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:42:49 +0000 mediagirl 177026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I like giving the son Dad's first or middle name as his middle name but I'm not personally interested in Jr's, the third, etc. I think it's sweet when other people do it, though. Mrs. Oyster on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176979 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:47:28 +0000 Mrs. Oyster 176979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My DH is a Jr. and I personally don't like it. His name and his dad's name are very common - so whenever we go anywhere there's about 15 of them in the room. Plus, I call his parents by their 1st names, which becomes pretty confusing when they're trying to decide if I'm talking to DH or FIL. Anyway - yeah, really not for me (aka our LO will not be a 3rd...although I get that question a lot). daniellemybelle on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176973 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:18:45 +0000 daniellemybelle 176973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I personally don't really like it. I understand that a lot of people like the tradition of it, but for me, I wouldn't think was fair. In my experience, it can be confusing, and I'd just prefer our LOs to have names all their own. And I'll admit that sometimes it does seem a little egotistical. DH has suggested a girl's name that sounds very close to his own name, and I always say, "People are going to think you decided - I'm so awesome, I'll name my daughter after myself!" chopsuey on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176966 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:45:55 +0000 chopsuey 176966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I love my dh's name and we considered giving our son dh's name. Andrea on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176965 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:38:40 +0000 Andrea 176965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We don't like the idea for our family. mrs. bird on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176962 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:34:30 +0000 mrs. bird 176962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ DH is a 3rd generation of his name (though he has different middle names, yes, nameS!). I am not at all a fan of juniors, I don't really understand it I guess. I've never met mother that named a daughter after herself, and kids take the fathers last name usually, so I guess I don't understand the appeal. But, with that said, it's important to DH's family, so we will follow their tradition of naming after the father if we have a boy someday and call him by his middle name. I do feel a little bad about how much I dislike this name., DH took a lot if crap for his name & yet we still plan on using it, lol Mrs. Pickle on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176951 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:59:50 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 176951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ If we have a son he won't be a junior because my husband doesn't really love his name. And we already have a BJ in the family. StrawberryBee on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176947 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:50:15 +0000 StrawberryBee 176947@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My husband and his son (my stepson) have the exact same name and it just leads to confusion. There's no way to shorten it, so I don't know what they'll do as he gets older. Just glad that I won't have to deal with talking him out of the idea if we have a LO ;) sandy on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176946 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:39:49 +0000 sandy 176946@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My husband has the same name as his dad and grandfather but they all have different middle names. I don't feel strongly about it but would feel bad if we had two boys...one gets to share dad's name and the other doesn't...seems like it could make the other son feel left out or something. Mrs. Pen on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176938 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:18:03 +0000 Mrs. Pen 176938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My FIL and husband have the same name, the only difference is that my husband has a middle name and FIL has NO middle name. Whenever we've applied for loans, his dad's credit comes up. When we got our first apartment, we started getting his mail AND my MIL's mail. We even got phone calls, and since I lived with my parents right before getting married- even THEY got phone calls for MIL! Weird, right? So we decided it was way too much of a pain/hassle and we didn't want to do that to our son. So no double names. heffalump on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176899 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:42:45 +0000 heffalump 176899@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm fine with them for other people, but they're not for us. In my religion we don't name after people who are living, only deceased, so that would be a big no no. But I know lots of juniors. They'll usually shorten the name, ex. dad is Joseph and baby is Joey, or use innitials, like SJ for Sam Junior. BSB on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176880 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:01:23 +0000 BSB 176880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My DH should be a junior but his parents didn't want 'junior' as part of his name so they left it off. I kinda wish he had a junior on his name because we have gotten mail and calls from his Dad's bills. Anyway, we decided we didn't want our child to be a 'third'. So we are not continuing that tradition. I don't think parents are egotistical if they have a junior. I think if a name is important to you, you could use the name again. Oh my DH name has two nicknames from one name. So his dad was one name and the DH was another. Sorta like the name Elizabeth, where the nickname Liz or Beth can be used. So there was no need to actually use Junior. photojane on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176874 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:56:43 +0000 photojane 176874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ i like them, but i don't think we'd ever do it. i don't really like the two letter nicknames that often associate a junior though (CJ, DJ, AJ, etc.), so that would be a problem. we've decided to use my husband's middle name for our son instead. :) autumnlove on "How do you feel about Juniors?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-juniors#post-176872 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:53:48 +0000 autumnlove 176872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ If we ever have a son, I would love to give him DH's name to make him a Junior since I love DH's name and it seems like a honor! My DH hates this idea and thinks we should just name him something else because he thinks it is egotistical and boring. How do you feel about Juniors?