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I understand that. But if the name is strange, weird, or ugly you will be doing your child a disservice.
We used my husband's first name as a middle name for our son. My husband's name is "David" - but I have to say that if he had an unattractive name, I would not have done this.
Again, naming your child should be a combination of psychology, taste, and social research. I think that it's serious business.
Again. this is not about showing how obscure or creative you can be.
It's about a child.
Making up a weird and difficult to pronounce name is the wrong way to be creative.
However so is naming your child Hephzibah or Hezekiah because you want to show off your Mayflower roots.
There are some God Awful names in my family tree. They should stay there, in the tree.
I am also not in favor of naming a child a name that is ultra popular. I would never want to have the same name as six other children in my class!
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I understand that. But if the name is strange, weird, or ugly you will be doing your child a disservice.
We used my husband's first name as a middle name for our son. My husband's name is "David" - but I have to say that if he had an unattractive name, I would not have done this.
Again, naming your child should be a combination of psychology, taste, and social research. I think that it's serious business.
Again. this is not about showing how obscure or creative you can be.
It's about a child.
Making up a weird and difficult to pronounce name is the wrong way to be creative.
However so is naming your child Hephzibah or Hezekiah because you want to show off your Mayflower roots.
There are some God Awful names in my family tree. They should stay there, in the tree.
I am also not in favor of naming a child a name that is ultra popular. I would never want to have the same name as six other children in my class!
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Thank you. That wasn't our plan. I realize we'd be naming a child. I previously gave names I would NOT use. There are many nice names in the tree also.
The tradition of naming someone after another branch in their family tree, as they used to do in Colonial American, particularly New England, where can find such names as Armstrong Winthrop White (all Mayflower family surnames) and names that reflect qualities like Patience and Prudence. Or the Scots-Irish in Appalachia that named their kids with scottish names like Andrew/Nell, or the Catholics and Dutch who named their kids either after Saints and important bibilical personages, or after great Protestant reformers, like Mary, Sarah, Martin and Mark.
You still get the Colonial names in many parts of the South. We had playgroup friends whose boys were Anderson (family name) (lastname) and Heyward (samefamily name) (lastname).
My son has a traditional manly-man name, which is also a family name, and which is also a saint's name. Then we followed the fine tradition of giving him a family middle name that would thoroughly mortify him as a teen (no, not Shirley or Lesley), but not be awful on a business card, so he's pretty well covered.
Yes, I don't like Addison. One of my high school friends named her daughter Addison.
I'm not a fan of the 'dens either - Aiden, Jayden, Cayden, etc.
Nor I of the Ja- and La- names.
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Originally Posted by 2KidsforMe
My ancestors on both sides were Puritans. I know its crazy but I love love so many names in my tree. In one family I had:
Thankful, Patience, Rememberance, Hopewell, Bethia, Freedom, Preserved, Silence, Hatevil (ok, this one is a bit much), Submit, and Mindwell. We did have our fair share of Sarahs, Abigails, and Nathaniels too though.
I think naming the children after a virtue is kinda cool, but people really don't do that anymore.
Cool names.
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Originally Posted by sheena12
...There are some God Awful names in my family tree. They should stay there, in the tree...
I have Patience and Temporance on my family tree. There are probably other virtues to, but not that I can think of at the moment.
DRAT, ya never, or at least---seldomly--- see anyone named, "Licentious". I always wanted an relative named Auntie Quated, Auntie Deluvian, or Auntie disestablishmentarianism. Dang!!! and there are those scoffers who say my mind works strangely. Go Figure!
I have a person on my family tree who was named Ovid. He was born in the 1930s. I wonder if he was named after the Roman author, or if the family just thought it sounded good.
Speaking of names that sound strange to us now, I have an ancestor named Dorcas. I was kind of happy about this because I thought it would be easy to find information about her, who else would have a name like Dorcas. Unfortunately, it seems to have been a fairly popular name for girls among at least several families in New England in the 1700's.
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