When naming your child, how important is it to you to honor loved ones in the name?

Wondering... To me it is very important to honor loved ones when I was naming my sons. Even in my future names if we should have a third child, we have picked names of loved ones to honor. My 3yr old name is Brody William, a simular first name as his daddy's and the same middle name, my youngest sons name, Riley James (Riley is my grandmothers surname and James is a version of hubbys brothers name. i am wondering if others feel the way I do? Should we honor loved ones when naming a child?








Lyn

When naming your child, how important is it to you to honor loved ones in the name?
If there is someone in your family to honor, then def.





but don't name your kid after a crack-head uncle.
Reply:To me, I would like to honor as many people as possible, but at the end of the day, it comes down to whether I like their name or not. If I don't, I won't use it. I might find something similar, but I won't use a name I don't like. Fortunately for me, my family members have awesome names that I would be happy to use as middle names. The first names I use usually have no family relevance, just names I heard somewhere along the line, that I love.





I think you should do the same thing. If you have more family names that you would be happy to carry on, then carry them on. If you are iffy on their names, don't use them. Use names you know you love, having a family relevance is just a plus.
Reply:When I was younger, I was totally against using family names - I thought all children should have their own name. Now, I plan on using my FIL's name for a middle name, boy or girl, and somehow something that references my grandfather. I may use my dad's name as a second middle name because St. Francis was the Patron Saint of Animals, and we are animal lovers in my house!





But, Frances (or Francis) is the only name that appears on the top 1000 baby name list that I have on my personal name list. I still want different, but still meaningful! My child may not like his/her name, but at least I can tell them why they were given the name, and it won't be just because I thought it was cool or I liked it (like my poor nephew Jett....)
Reply:my dads side of the family is NUTS in this department.





My great grandad was named Fredrick


my grandad was named Fredrick


My dad is named fredrick


he has a half brother named Fredrick





My great uncle is named Robert


My uncle is named Robert


His son is named Jeffrey Robert and he had a kid and named him Robert Jeffrey.





My son has his fathers name as his middle name but only because my husband insited. My hubbys name is Keith and my son is Kaden Keith.





I'm not big on naming people after people, i think people should have their own name. If you must use a family name put it in the middle. That way your child still gets his own name. Just my opinion.
Reply:See I personally wouldn't make the first name the same as a relative or loved one because it can get confusing, a middle name if it fit with the first name would be acceptable.





I do believe each child should have a unique name in the family, we opted to avoid placing anyone's name in our daughter's and probably will do the same for the next one
Reply:My oldest has the same middle name as his father.


My middle child is a Jr


My youngest's middle name is the first name of his godfather





If I ever have another son, I want his middle name to be Ben, in remembrance of one of the most amazing men I've ever known, who recently died of cancer.
Reply:It's not very important to me....I guess if I had a good relationship with one of my family members and I wanted to honor them, it'd be different. But I never got along with my family, and I sure as heck don't want to be reminded of them by using their names for my children.





If my boyfriend and I ever have kids, the first boy I have is gonna share my boyfriend's middle name though









Reply:I think it's nice to give your children names that mean something, as long as you like the name too. We have the name Jaden Christopher picked out for a boy. My husband's name is Jason, and mine is Cristina, so he would have something from both of our names. And my husband's grandfather's initials were JC. So it's not as literal as naming him after someone, but it still has meaning. We decided our boy will be JC and our girls will be CJ.
Reply:Yes I do. My oldest's middle name is James which is the masculine form of "Jamie" (even tho its unisex). My name is Jamie %26amp; my hubby's middle name is Jamie so his middle name represents us.





My youngest's middle name is Michael in honor of a dear friend who tragically passed away while I was pregnant.
Reply:If you have people you want to honor then definitely. If you don't, that's fine to. Not everyone comes from a happy life.





I have names in my family that I'm not the biggest fan of and the easiest thing for me to do was find names from our cultural background to run with. We're Irish, German, French and Creek (Native American). It worked well for us.
Reply:I love the idea of naming my children after family members. It is an excellent way of honoring that loved one. When they ask "Have you got a name?" and you tell them "Yes, it's (mother's maiden name, grandfather's first name) Lastname" the look on their face is awesome.
Reply:I think if you like the name anyway then you should, but don't just the name even if you don't like it because it's a family name. I wouldn't call a son (if I had one) Gerald just because I have an uncle of that name.
Reply:I think it is very important. My husband and I named our son John (he's due in 7 weeks). John is after my father who died when I was young - I was in 3rd grade. I always said to myself if I had a boy I'd name him John.
Reply:Yes, to a point. if your gpa which you admired very much is named lester or melvin, would you really name your kid that?? Im much more likely if it is a good name.
Reply:well, if i had cool names like yours in our family it might be a different story, LOL. We have other ways to honor our loved ones other than naming our kids after them:)