Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

Matthew his named after DH's father who passed away almost exactly a year before he was born.

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My FIL died when my DH was a child. If we have a boy, we will definately use his name as a middle name.

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

Posted by Porrruss

We named DD after my maternal grandmother. baby #2 will have the middle name Jean, which is my mom's middle name and my DD's great-aunt's name.

I love Frankie.

Message edited 7/24/2008 3:22:56 PM.

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

We've talked about it but Rich isn't a fan...I can't tell you how many cousins he has named Vinny! (Vincenzo, Vincent) But I do think it's a very big honor.

Would you consider it for a middle name or do you want to pass down the first name as a first name?

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

Posted by Ang-Rich

We've talked about it but Rich isn't a fan...I can't tell you how many cousins he has named Vinny! (Vincenzo, Vincent) But I do think it's a very big honor.

Would you consider it for a middle name or do you want to pass down the first name as a first name?

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

Well, I think your dad who deserves it would be thrilled to death. And I think Frankie is a great name But seriously its such an honor.

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If we have a son, we are naming him Jude, after DH's Mom Judith who passed away right before we got married. If we have a girl, we are going to give her my Mom's name as a middle name (Colette).

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We didn't pick DS's first name for anyone, but his middle name -- Anthony -- is in honor of DH's late grandfather. I would have loved to use Anthony as a first name actually, but it's also my husband's name and for whatever reason my husband didn't want a 'junior' (or whatever he would have been had we named him Anthony..)

There are already a lot of people named after mine and DH's parents; so I'm not sure we'd go that route with any future children. But if we ever have a girl, her middle name will be my late grandmother's name for sure. If we ever have another boy, we might use a family name as a middle name as well :)

Message edited 7/24/2008 3:54:43 PM.

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One son has my FIL's name, and the other has my father's name as his middle name.

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DD's middle name is my Grandmother's name whom unfortunately I never had the opportunity to meet but according to my dad I am very much like.

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DD's middle name was my great-grandmothers

if the next baby is a boy it will be after my father with the middle name possibly being after my grandfather

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We named our daughter after dh's grandfather...don't think I'd name any future child after our parents though. Maybe use an initial or something...

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Talia is named after my grandmother.

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My son Athan James is named after both his grandfathers. Athan is short for Athanasios (my maternal pappou) and James was my boyfriends maternal grandpa.

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With DS his first name happens to be a nick name of DH's late grandfather and his middle name is my dad's name. With DD, we happened to like names that were the same initals as our mothers so that is what we did. If we have another boy then we most likely use my FIL's name as the middle name which I don't like at all.

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My dad has 5 daughters, 2 granddaughters, even our dog was a girl.
Before I even got married, i knew i would name my son after him. So Twin A is going to be Michael. Twin B will be Lilly after DH's maternal grandmother. DD is Ella, after both grandma's Ellen and Mary Ellen and her Middle name is my MIL's maiden name.

i like the fact that if they are ever asked if they are named after someone, they can say yes, instead of Mommy liked my name.

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Kailas middle name is June, which is my grandmothers name and mothers middle name,

The next one if its a boy will have the middle name Francis (which is also FH's middle name) and is also my grandfathers name. If its a girl, I think Ill do another middle name, just not sure what.

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My daughter is named for DH's maternal family name.

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DD is named after her great-grandmothers. If she had been a boy he would have been named after his grandfathers.

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We didn't use any family names when naming DD. If DD had been a boy her middle name would have been James after DH's uncle who died suddenly last year. I thought about using my grandma's name as a middle name for DD, but I just didn't love the way it sounded...she would have been Natalie Marguerite ....instead she's Natalie Grace. Maybe next time around.

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YES, I did! DS is named after my FIL. My mother and father have VERY italian names..Annunziata and Fedele. If DC #2 was a boy we were going to name him Matteo Fedele. My mother begged me NOT to use her name since it's such a long name.

BTW: I LOVE the name FRANKIE!!!!!

Such a cute name!

Message edited 7/24/2008 5:10:12 PM.

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my youngest DD is Kayla Jo her middle name is for my FIL Joseph.. we had all girls so this was the best we could do! lol

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Im definitely in this category...only I do it with initials or middle name...

Ariel Jae.....(Andrew & Jonathen my sons who passed away)

Jaedyn Luisa Hope & Alexis Deanna Faith...(again for Andrew & Jonathen, Deanna is my mother Luisa is his mother, Faith and Hope is b/c all you need is alot of Faith and a little Hope)

Caden James Aron...(Andrew & Jonathen again and Aron is DH's grandfather who passed away)

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No but if we were going to have a girl her middle name would have been my grandmothers

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In my faith we name after the deceased. Sadly, I will be naming my daughter for both of my parents (DH's grandfatheras well) in Hebrew.

Message edited 7/24/2008 6:30:31 PM.