https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:20:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-581054 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:56:53 +0000 shopaholic 581054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! Lots of cool traditions here! My maiden name is also a very common first name and we already have 2 in the family. </p> <p>@Chillybear: BTW, DH LOVES what they did with their kids' names! My name is too hard to change into much else and DH wanted every version or similar sounding of his name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-581048 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:54:10 +0000 kjpugs 581048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@KissMeCait: We're doing almost exactly the same thing!</p> <p>If we have a boy, the first name will be my mom's maiden name, shortened a little. If we have a girl, the middle name is my mom's name, which is also my middle name. I love my mom and the name is unique looking due to French spelling but easy to pronounce, so I want it to become a tradition.</p> <p>When I got older and realized my mom made my middle name her first name though, I thought that was weird. I could never imagine being like "oh we need a middle name? How about... my name?" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580981 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:17:38 +0000 anonysquire 580981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would totally name a child my nickname: Esquire. But my name: Lindsay is too plain for my taste. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580961 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:04:57 +0000 sunny 580961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to give my daughter my first name as her middle name but DH didn't want to. :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580946 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:56:15 +0000 Running Elley 580946@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: hahaha wow! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580944 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:55:42 +0000 Running Elley 580944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom, grandma and great grandma all have the same legal first name, Jewell!</p> <p>What's funny is that none of them go by/went by it! My great grandma went by Francis (her middle name), my grandma went by Judy (random name that she just picked up lol) and my mom goes by Lazel (her middle name). Odd :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580891 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:19:04 +0000 Ra 580891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom and her mother are both named Patricia. Funny, considering her mom sent her into foster care shortly after birth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580872 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:05:33 +0000 Cole 580872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MarieJ: I know a family with two girls and they did the same thing so mom and both girls share a middle name and they get such a kick out of it! </p> <p>My aunt is named after my grandmother but goes by something else and I knew a woman from Poland who named her daughter after herself complete with "junior" attached which I admit struck me as odd. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580220 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:47:01 +0000 sorrycharlie 580220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Chillybear: wow i never realized that either! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580218 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:46:14 +0000 rachiecakes 580218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: that's hysterical and really weird! </p> <p>I would most definitely use my middle name. It's my great-grandmother's maiden name and most people in my family have it for a middle name. I'm a little sad I didn't use it for DS but I wanted to honor my dad.<br /> I was thinking about naming LO after my best friend if I had a girl. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580181 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:37:45 +0000 SAHM0811 580181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom has her formal, legal name... And then the name she goes by, which everyone considers her real name. She named me the latter. So she's M____ and growing up I was Little M____. </p> <p>not doing that with my daughters though! But that's just us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580179 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:36:57 +0000 autumnlove 580179@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A girl in my childbirth class told us that she was going to name her daughter Rebecca after herself because it is the most beautiful name in the world. I thought she was weird...lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580176 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:35:25 +0000 Bao 580176@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would consider it for a middle name, but not a first. Future LO may have my middle name as her middle name though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-580167 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:32:34 +0000 Weagle 580167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would love to name a daughter my first name. I've never gone by it, and it's actually no longer part of my name. It's a very unique family name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579703 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:53:09 +0000 LindsayInNY 579703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I knew a girl Kate, mom was Katherine. Dad was Michael and son was Mike. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579694 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:50:56 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 579694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes one of my old manager's daughter is named after. The call her Little Debbie. She explained mother-daughter "juniors" is common among Latinos. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579652 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:45:07 +0000 lawbee11 579652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom's name is Linda, and my middle name is Lynn (or was before I made my maiden name my middle name). I wouldn't name my LO after myself, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579588 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:33:07 +0000 KissMeCait 579588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We'll be doing something kind of along these lines. Our plan is to give our hypothetical son a shortened version of my mothers maiden name for his first name and our hypothetical daughter my middle name for her middle name. Call me a feminist but I don't think the fathers family should be the only one represented in future generations. My family is just as important so I'd like for a little bit of me/them to be passed down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579569 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:29:02 +0000 littlebittyhouse 579569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know someone that named their baby girl after themselves. Erin and baby Erin. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579563 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:27:57 +0000 MrsTiz 579563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't do this, but we're also anti- naming baby after anyone we know IRL (especially us!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579561 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:27:20 +0000 MarieJ 579561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter and I share my middle name, Marie. All future daughters will have it as well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579553 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:25:49 +0000 PurpleUnicorn 579553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my friend gave her first name as her baby girl's middle name. i never met anyone who had the same first name as their mom though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579532 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:20:57 +0000 Dandelion 579532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My middle name is my mom's first name, and this baby's middle name is a derivative of that name, also. I thought about using my first name for her middle name, but I like how this one looks.</p> <p>I have no issues with naming a girl after a mother...after all, the mom had to carry her! I even thought, at one point, of just giving her my name, but reversed...my middle name for her first and my first for her middle. But we like the name we picked.</p> <p>Why should dads have all the honor? lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579531 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:20:11 +0000 HabesBabe 579531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not a fan of naming kids after myself (or anything after yourself, really-- like Disneyland? I should open a Nguyenland)-- it feels egotistical to me. But if it's already a tradition to name a son after a dad, I don't see anything wrong with naming a daughter after her mom!</p> <p>@Chillybear: why did I never realize this? LOL </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579502 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:14:26 +0000 Chillybear 579502@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like what Will and Jada Smith did and name their daughter a feminazation of Will (Willow) and their son a masculine form of Jada (Jaden) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579496 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:13:38 +0000 Foodnerd81 579496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: My middle name is my mom's first name and my grandma's first name. If we have a girl, we will do a nickname of it (Mae for Mary). </p> <p>@shopaholic: I don't think it's done that often and there is no logical reason, really, except that junior seems like a boy name. But my mom is Mary Ann and her mom is Mary, so I think that was sort of common for their generation (my dad refers to all my mom's female relatives as Mary Mary because there were so many Mary Somethings..) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579488 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:11:12 +0000 Mrs. Pen 579488@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I told DH we had to give LO my maiden name as a middle name because I will never be able to have a Child named for me. I hate my middle name and my first name isn't suitable as a middle name and it'd be too confusing have two of me in the house. I told DH all the kids get his last name and it wasn't fair... Somehow LO ended up named for DH twice :-P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579484 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:10:10 +0000 Boheme 579484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My sister and I are both named after my mom - I got her middle name as my middle, sister got her first name as a middle name. I've always loved it. </p> <p>If we ever have a girl, I want to give her my maiden name and my great grandmother's name - _____ Grace. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579463 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:07:30 +0000 twodoghouse 579463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know a girl named Emily who named her baby Amelie. They're pronounced differently, but it's still pretty similar! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-baby-after-yourself#post-579440 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:04:36 +0000 Arden 579440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My middle name, my mom's middle name, my grandma's middle name, and my great grandma's middle name are all the same. I'm killing the tradition though... I just don't like the name very much. </p>