If your son is named after his father (junior/third etc), how did you feel about it?
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My son will be a Junior (he's due in 12 weeks). I love that he will be a Junior. DH and I picked out names years ago and I suggested having a Junior. He loves the idea! Its very traditional, which I love, and the best boy name I could imagine. We joked around about picking out a name for boy #2 (since we liked having our names before being pregnant) and couldn't come up with anything that holds a candle to Junior. Hope next LO is a girl! I just didn't feel a connection to any of the other names we considered and we know this one is strong!
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Were jewish so ill never have a junior. We name after deceased relatives, not living ones.
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If LO is a boy he won't technically be a junior, but he will have my maiden name as his first name.
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Not a Jr but my LO is named after his grandfather.
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Not a junior exactly, but he shares a first name with my husband, and goes by his middle name. I'd prefer him to have his actual name be his first name, but if you switch the names, it sounds terrible. We never discussed him having the same name as my husband, but suddenly, in my last trimester, my husband decided he really wanted his name in there, or at least a version of his name. I was not into it, but he was so excited about it, so he won. I think it's pretty sweet now.
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We used my hubby name as a middle name. Via wanted us to choose our own name for him plus we like unique names and my hubby name is very very common
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Not a junior although he has my middle name as his middle. The next son will have DH's middle (and my FIL's middle as well as my grandpa's first) name as his middle as well.
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We used my husband's name as his middle name as well. I like it! I like that he has his own first name but his dad is still honored
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My family doesn't do junior/third etc, however the first born son of the first born son is named James. And it has been like that for at least five generations now. I have to admit I would have been upset if my brother hadn't named his son James
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My DH is named after his father so we decided not to make DS a third. DS does have DH's middle name, just not his first.
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no but our LO's middle is the same as his dad and grandpa.
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DH is insisting that if we have a boy he wants to make him the third. He likes to follow in his fathers foot steps a lot & I believe in using a relative's name somewhere in a lo's name. I feel that each child should have their own identity. We are both pretty adimit about what we want, ill probally end up giving in.
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@char54: Same here! And another family surname as a middle.
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If we have a boy, DH is very adamant about our son not being a junior (and I agree), so no juniors for us!
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DH felt very strongly about carrying on his name (he is the 3rd, LO is the 4th!), I don't love the idea, but it was so important to DH that I gave in. We call LO by a different nickname, because I think its important to have his own identity.
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Not a junior, but he'll share the same first name with my husband (who goes by his initials). The name goes way back in the family, and it's not so bad, so I just went with it. My husband is super excited about it.
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@jmarionsmith: Our LO's middle name is the same name as MY father and grandfather
(My dad is a junior, and I like the name, and I wanted some representation of a family name from my side in there!)
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Wagon Jr. is a Junior!!! I loved the idea of naming a son after his father and calling him Junior. Luckily I married a guy with a great, classic American first name! He's not technically a real Junior since they don't share a middle name. But we still added "Jr." to the end of his name.
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DH did not want little one to take his name eventhough it's very popular in both of our families.
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If we have a son, he will be a junior!
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My husband is a junior and it drove me crazy just trying to talk to him and his dad when they were in the same room. I don't see how his mother could stand it! So we never ever considered it a possibility to make our son a 'third'. Besides, it was never a good name combination to begin with...
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My husband really wants a junior. I have always made my objections known, so hopefully he relents and doesn't make choosibg a name a horrible experience.
I simply cannot stand his name. It's very different and has two capital letters and an accent mark. It sounds feminine and the shortened version his mother calls him is also unappealing. His middle name honors his mother's favorite musician.
I don't like junior nicknames like Junior or Lil Kevin or KJ.I would like to give my child his own name that is special to both of us or at least pleasing.
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Not a junior but his first name is basically DH's middle name. It's been passed down a few generations, and we wanted to carry it on, but it was one of the few boy names we could agree on (and met all of our criteria).
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My SO is a junior and he hated it and always went b his middle name.
He was adement that he didnt wanr a third.
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