Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

Both my girls middle names are after my grandmother and DH's godmother both whom have passed.
ETA names:
Lauren Antoinette (A. is grandmother's name)
Audrina Lillian (L. is godmother's name)

Message edited 7/25/2008 11:13:32 AM.

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

Giovanni is named after my grandfater. It was actually DH idea to do this, as my grandfather is the only grandfather DH ever knew. We knew we wanted to use the G, because all of the grandparents and DHs name in italian begins with G, but he really wanted to honour my grandfather

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

Elizabeth Grace - Elizabeth was DH's mom who passed away in 2006. Grace is one of my grandmother's names who is still alive.

For the next baby, if it's a girl we are going to try to use Dianne as a middle name after my mom who is still alive.

For a boy it is going to either be:

matthew paul - Paul was my brother's name who passed away

or charles michael - my dad's name (still alive) and DH's Dad's name who is deceased.

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

dd is named after both her grandmothers (first and middle name)

if the name(s) were hideous i might have done things differently but i like the tradition

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

my brother named one of his sons after himself and the other one after our dad,my brother died at age 35,,8 yrs ago,my dad really likes that one of my brothers sons was named after him

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DS has DH's first name and the middle name Angelo from DH's grandpa

If i have a girl one day it will probably be Vincenza (since I liked the name) but it happens to be my MIL name (coincidence)....now, years later, I want to change my mind and DH wont let me

Message edited 7/25/2008 12:04:00 PM.

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

Posted by Diana1215

I didn't name Jack after my father.

One of the priests who came to talk yesterday at my grandfathers wake said how important it is for some people to have their first names passed on and it got me thinking. I think I would def. name my next son Frankie. Don't know how DH feels about it but he'll have to deal



Did you/Would you name a child after a parent?

Re: Naming a child after a grandparent

We didn't name DS after any grandparents. My dad's name is too Italian for me (Salvatore) and i'm just not crazy about it. My FIL's name is Frank and we have to many of them in DH's family (his Dad is Frank, His brother's name is frank, his nephew's name is Frank and his BIL's name is Frank) I told DH if he wanted DS named after him and he said that he wanted our son to have his own name. So we went with Matthew which is a name I have always liked. We picked Thomas as his middle name because that was the name of DH's cousin that died on 9/11. He was a firefighter.

However if DS was a girl then we were going to use my grandmother's name as the middle name.

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We are all about family names.
My DD is Ellen Mary...Ellen is my paternal grandmother (Granny) who I adore and is still with us, and also happened to be DH's paternal grandmother's name as well. My Granny was just floored and feels so special. Mary is my DH's mother's name. I did that more for DH. She's a good woman, but I could have picked other names I like more. Of course, now I can't imagine my beautiful DD having any other name.

Our little man that is on his way will be a III, so there you go, Dad and Grandpa in one fell swoop.

If we have another boy then we will use my Dad's name and DH's uncle's, Bruce Andrew. For another girl...not as sure. I like my other Grandma's name, Elizabeth and my own middle name, Anne...but that's a big IF about having a 3rd. Lemme just get thru having #2! haha...

Message edited 7/25/2008 1:32:27 PM.

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My DS is named after DH father since he passed away a few years ago..It wasnt even his idea it was mine and Im glad we did it..