Were You Named After Someone?

Lee

Lee

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Parents do not do this much anymore, naming their newborn after a parent, aunt or other relative. Or do they still?

I was named after my grandmother whose name was Mary, but in my teens I switched to using my second name for the simple reason that I liked it better.
 

In my family , ( irish and Scottish Celts) both sides, it was a long tradition of naming the kids after the parents and grandparents... My father , paternal grandfather, grt grandfather, eldest brother and my eldest nephew all have the same name..

My mother was outvoted on the second son, and he was named after my maternal great grandfather, and uncle eldest of my fathers' brothers. ..and given 2 middle names of uncles as well..

The females both sides are also named after relatives... and both of my grandmothers' had the same first name as did their offspring my aunts...

...so my mother was determined that none of us girls would have the first moniker of any relative... and so we didn't, but my sister and I were both given relatives names as middle names. Me, my grandmothers' first names, and my sister under me was given the last name of relatives... insisted on by my father..

When it came to the youngest girl my mother put her foot down and refused to allow it.. and she gave my sister a double barrelled name that was not in our family, with no middle name
 

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My father's boss paid him to name me after his deceased mother. My parents had already named me (I have 2 birth certificates). My parents needed a name that started with the same letter as boss' mom. My original name has same first letter. A cultural thing.
 
I was named after my great grandfather, grandfather and father. Yes, I am number IV. When my dad was alive, he insisted that I use the number IV after signing my name to any legal document, but I never knew why.
morgan said:
I was named after our dog, a huskie who saved my father's life. Very proud of that.
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It’s nothing like Lassie or Laddie is it? (Just kidding, of course.)
 
hollydolly said:
..and did you get your leg pulled at school, Kevin ? :sneaky:
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No, lol ... but the the boy named Sue did! 😝🤣


"You really really want to name your daughter after her father or grandfather, or other male person. However, you can't think of any good names that work, short of calling your daughter Donaldette.

Creating feminine forms of masculine names is an age-old practice. Here are some ideas, though not necessarily etymologically correct... they would still work in a pinch without having to resort to something weird and contrived (like Walterina)."

http://www.namenerds.com/uucn/boy2girl.html
 
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I am from a Jewish background. The tradition was to name the child after a deceased relative. We did it. I was born in 1961. I am not sure what the custom is today, if it continues.

My middle name, is named after a soldier from WWII. He died, fighting the Nazis in North Africa. From Belgium. He was a member of the French Foreign Legion.

Especially earlier in the war, they took on missions behind the lines, very dangerous missions. And, of course, had a high casualty rate.

Picture below is the only picture of him that I know about. I am guessing that he is about 14 in the photo...

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I'm named after a dead lady that my mother never met. She saw the obit of an elderly lady in the paper and liked both names. So, here I am with an alternate spelling of my otherwise-common first name and my nobody-else-in-the-world-but-the-dead-lady middle name, compounded by swapping my perfectly good and common last name for my late husband's can't-spell-OR-pronounce last name.

I answer to almost anything.......
 
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