Anyone who named their child after a friend, teacher, ex lover? (children, how to)
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My eldest son.
Collaboration of :
First name from both an endearing cousin I used to babysit, and later a guy I dated that was the quintessential gentleman.
His middle name from my stepmoms Dad. He was also a southern gent with intellectual charm.
I often speak highly (and rightly so) of my daughter in law. The only time she has veered from being pollypurebred, is when she named the grand daughters. She made sure they had names of her grandmother's. Pretty sure those children are also kin to my sons side of the family. She said, they have his last name. I responded, til they marry.
In my culture, you always name children after someone beloved to the parents who have passed and whose characteristics you want to wish onto your children. It's considered very bad luck to name a child after someone who is still alive, both for the child and for the person who they are named after.
My middle name is both of my great grandmothers on my mom's side. My brother's first name was after my mother's older brother who passed as a toddler and his middle name was my mom's cousin who was like a second father growing up.
My partner and I have planned names for our future children. The first daughter will be named after two friends of ours who passed far too young (a name that has similar sounds to both their names), middle name after RBG. Our first son will be named after two friends of mine who have passed, and my great grandfather. The teachers who made the biggest impact on me, and who I would be proud to name my children after, are all still alive. In the unlikely even that it changes, there are two teachers/professors in particular that would be in strong consideration.
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My eldest son.
Collaboration of :
First name from both an endearing cousin I used to babysit, and later a guy I dated that was the quintessential gentleman.
His middle name from my stepmoms Dad. He was also a southern gent with intellectual charm.
I often speak highly (and rightly so) of my daughter in law. The only time she has veered from being pollypurebred, is when she named the grand daughters. She made sure they had names of her grandmother's. Pretty sure those children are also kin to my sons side of the family. She said, they have his last name. I responded, til they marry.
If I was your DIL, I'd be sure any future children were solely named after my relatives if my MIL thought she had a say. My in-laws have expressed frustration that I won't follow his family traditions in naming children after living relatives (them). They are mistaken in thinking their opinion has weight, or that giving their opinion reflects positively on them. May you treat your DIL and grands in such a way that they see it fit to name their children after you when you're gone.
Also, it's (hopefully) unlikely by the time your grandchildren are old enough to get married that the majority will still be taking their husband's last names. I'm in my early 30s and none of my peers who have gotten married took their husband's last name, and I don't plan to either. It made sense when people got married as children of 20 or 21, but not as professionals in their late 20s and early 30s.
In my culture, you always name children after someone beloved to the parents who have passed and whose characteristics you want to wish onto your children. It's considered very bad luck to name a child after someone who is still alive, both for the child and for the person who they are named after.
Lol here it's the opposite - it's preferable to name after people who are alive.
As an Ashkenazi Jew we named after my deceased father, using the first initial for the English name and his entire Hebrew name. My younger son's name was a bit more complicated. We were going to name him Andrew after my deceased grandmother, Ada, but call him "Drew." My mother kept on asking "how's Andrew"? I told her, one more time and I'm changing the name. She did, and I went back to the hospital and used "blue-out" Correct-O-Type and, before legally becoming an official record, covered over the "A" and the "n", making the name "Drew." We gave him a Hebrew name similar to hers.
We decided between us what to name our 3 children. They are common enough names that people will know how to spell them, we didn't want exotic spellings that they would have to correct the spelling to people all their lives.
I'm still single and have no kids yet but I work with so many married people. Besides we work with documents with many names every day, I see names old and names new.
I sometimes imagine the trouble my clients & co-workers went trough having to name their kids.
If I had to take part in naming my children, I'd run into trouble. First, I like so many names that it would be impossible to chose as I'll feel I'll miss the name so to say. On the other hand I seem to always default to names of people I've known - former classmates, childhood friends, favourite teachers or celebrities, relatives alive or not, and even the name of one of the first girls I fell for (my most remembered puppy love).
So I'd like to ask if there are really people who have named their child after a (former) co-worker, teacher, friend or even childhood gf/bf?
Twin son's
Orangejello
Lemonjello
Just add a pseudo French accent to the above, and you've pretty much got it...
^I've studied French and I like Paris. I hate French culture, their effete language and names, duh! It's usually trashy people that use them out of France anyway (the types that think France is all that, in reality there are at least 5 more important and nicer cultures in Europe alone). My own culture is far more ancient than French one.
I'll only use a name that is common between my own (Slavic) nation and also found in Germany and Sweden, so Vladimir isout since it's just Slavic but Kristian is in as Swedes and Germans have it and we have it here, too.
After all those are the countries we'll travel to often and even live there, why have to correct the other kids? Besides kids can be evil, a very obviously Slavic name in a non-Slavic country could lead to bullying.
That's a common urban legend...or are they real? Here's a post about that. If interested, be sure to read the comments.
These 2 were in my daughter's school. They're about 34 years old now.
Where are they now?
Don't know where 1 is, but the other owns a very successful business, in Calif. (I've personally done about $60,000 worth of business with that entity.) Maybe $70,000 but don't tell the wife!
Come to think of it, she's done $15,000+ herself...
We named one of our cats Bizzie, a long time ago. She was very very bizzie. Busy too.
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My in-laws have expressed frustration that I won't follow his family traditions in naming children after living relatives (them). They are mistaken in thinking their opinion has weight, or that giving their opinion reflects positively on them. May you treat your DIL and grands in such a way that they see it fit to name their children after you when you're gone.
