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My maternal grandmother hated her name--Concetta--but I may have used it. I also loved my paternal grandmother's name, Charlotte.

As for boys, I would have loved a little boy named Joey (my grandfather was Joseph) but DS is a III, so basically he is named after my deceased FIL (as well as DH).

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In both my DHs & my family, it is tradition for the oldest son (my DH)
to name his 1st son after his father, to carry the name.
So thats what we did, my 1st son has my FILs name, and my 2nd son, my fathers name.
If we have a girl, we will name her aft my MIL.

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Emma is Emma Elizabeth - My mom is Elizabeth

Jeremy is Jeremy Peter - My dad is Peter

Lukie is Lucas Charles - My FIL is Charles


IF and that is a HUGE IF we have #4 and it's a girl it will be

NAME Lynn - MIL's name is Deborah Lynn

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Emilia is named after my great-grandmother. We spelled it the same way too.

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DD is named after my mom and grandmother and her middle name is after my FIL.
Brianna Alexandria
Bri- Bridget - my mom
Anna- Ann - my grandmother

Alexandria- Alexander- my FIL

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Landon's middle name (Henry) is a family name.
Henry is DH's middle name
Henry is DH's father's middle name
Henry is DH's grandfather's first name.
I personally don't like the name but it had meaning to DH so we used it.

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Ryan Micheal - Micheal is my FIL
Justin Stephen - Stephen is my DH
Jonathan Vito - Vito is my Dad

I liked all the names ...even my dad's but I thought that these kids should have their own unique name.

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DS's middle name is James after his grandfather. If we ever have a little girl, it will be Charlotte after my grandmother.

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I named DD after my grandma Bridget. I also wanted to name other DD Amelia after my grandmother but DH wanted to pick the name. I ended up naming other DD Alanna after a family friend anyway.

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my DS is names after my husbands late father (first name) and my father (middle name)

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Jared's middle name (robert) is after my dh. Baby#2's middle name will be after my dad.

If I had a daughter, I would have named her Julia, after my grandmother.

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my DS was named after my grandmother, we took the first part of her name and made it into a boys name (you know my DS name, the beginning of it was her name)

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My sons first name is after my FIL & his middle name is my maiden name after my Dad.

My daughters middle name are after their grandmothers.

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I named my first son after my late FIL & my dad John Robert

I named my second son after my dad and Great Grandfather Robert Carlo

I named my daughter after my late mother and my MIL Francine Rose

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Lily was named after me (sort of). I'm Lori Anne, she's Lily Anne.
If we ever have a boy, he will most likely be Thomas Michael (My FIL/husband are Thomas and my father, bother, BIL are Michael). It makes it so much easier that all of the men in my family have the same names!!

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Both of our boys will have grandparents names as middle names. DHs dad passed away 7 years ago and I suggested we give DS his name (as a first name...very common, Michael) and DH didn't want that, he said he wanted DS to have his own name so we made Michael his middle name. This baby's middle name will be Anthony after my dad...if we could only figure out a first name

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My son is named after my husband's father- he is alive. We almost lost him not too long ago and it was important to him

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Giannas middle name is after Steves grandmother, the only one I met and knew.

As for a boy, No I will not use either grandparents names...sorry.

My FIL's name I dont like and its been used in family, 3 times already, his son and his grandson.

as for my dad...same, his dad, my dad and my brother. Same, I dont like the name.

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My daugher, Jordana, is named after my father, Jerry. He passed away in 1996. Her middle name, Madison, is after my grandfather, Mendal.

If I have a son, his middle name will be Jerry.

My neice, Ella, is named after our grandmother, Ella. My nephew's middle name, Jacob, is after my grandfather, Jacob.

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Benjamin's middle name is Steven, after my FIL. If we have a girl for our next child, her middle name will be Susan in memory of my Mom.

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My DS is named after my mom, who passed away long before DH and I met. His name is the male version of my mom's.

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Olivia is named after my grandmother!

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My nephew is named after his father (BIL), his grandfather and his great-grandfather! Not sure that my sister was really excited about the name, but she did say, how many chances do you get to have a IV?

DS#1 has DH's grandfather's very Croatian name w/in his first name (although I wanted to use that name before meeting DH so it worked out, since DH was super close to him and was semi raised by him). His middle name is DH's first name, which is the English version of his FIL's name. MIL gave us a bit of trouble not using the French (FIL) version, but I was the one who signed the BC...LOL

DS#2 middle name is an English version of DH's original middle name (long story on why it was changed). His first name has no meaning - it was the only name we could agree on.


If we have a girl, I have always wanted to use my pat grandmother's name Josephine. I have also thought about combining my mom and MIL's names...Madelena - but I'll cross that bridge if I ever get to it.

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I named my daugther after my mom AND my grandma (they are both named madeline).
I get plenty of looks b/c I guess it is just more culturally acceptable to name children after men, and not women.
I don't know what is right or wrong- but the reason why I did it is because my mom and my grandma are very strong, smart, caring women- and I was hoping that in passing on their name, I would also be passing on some of those qualities that make them so wonderful and so terribly important to me!