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Baby names.
if you were to have a daughter would you name her after yourself?
I think I like the idea u ladies have about putting a twist on it. My husband suggested it because he thinks my name Annjanette Monique is beautiful. However I have horrible credit. I am far from a dead beat I'm a hard worker but what can I say. Unexpected things come up. Also nobody ever says my name correctly. And I get called the wrong name everywhere I go. But it doesn't bother me. But could be frustrating for others. I think we will just go with Jeanette for the first name. Now just to decide a good middle name to go with it.
I'm not actually big on someone naming either a boy or a girl after his or her parent if the name is an exact copy. Not so concerned, and think it rather nice, if someone does a tribute with a middle name, or a twist on a name. A friend of mine's first initials are M.A., and she toyed with the idea of naming her daughter Mia for that reason. But her own name was not Mia, so it would not be like saying implicitly "This child is a clone of me." Let them be their own person, right? In fact, if a husband INSISTED that the child be named the exact name of the mother, I think it would creep me out a bit if I were the wife. Even if he did the same thing about a son, if his level of insistence were extremely high, I would wonder how separate of a person from himself he saw his child.
The credit-report point is also very interesting and makes sense. Obviously you would not necessarily know when naming James John III that James John Senior will be a deadbeat later in life, but what a mess if it happens! Credit bureaus are notorious for their mistakes being almost permanent. When we went to sign on our mortgage, up came all of these typos of my husband's name that had been done over the years by various direct-mail houses, and it said his name (say it was George Jones) and then "AKA Georg Jones, AKA Gorge Jones, AKA George Janes" and on and on. The "AKAs" made it look like he had been using aliases or something, and the mortgage company made him sign the paper like that. Imagine how frustrating it would be if all of that came from Grandpa!
And then there is also the day-to-day hassle of phone messages ("do you mean little George or big George?") and mail. They had better have very different email carriers! The last thing I would have wanted to do is have some of my boyfriends' dads get my mushy letters (and it would be a thousand times easier for this to happen on email today than it was back when I was single).
As you can see, I'm all for the kid having his own identity. :)
The credit-report point is also very interesting and makes sense. Obviously you would not necessarily know when naming James John III that James John Senior will be a deadbeat later in life, but what a mess if it happens! Credit bureaus are notorious for their mistakes being almost permanent. When we went to sign on our mortgage, up came all of these typos of my husband's name that had been done over the years by various direct-mail houses, and it said his name (say it was George Jones) and then "AKA Georg Jones, AKA Gorge Jones, AKA George Janes" and on and on. The "AKAs" made it look like he had been using aliases or something, and the mortgage company made him sign the paper like that. Imagine how frustrating it would be if all of that came from Grandpa!
And then there is also the day-to-day hassle of phone messages ("do you mean little George or big George?") and mail. They had better have very different email carriers! The last thing I would have wanted to do is have some of my boyfriends' dads get my mushy letters (and it would be a thousand times easier for this to happen on email today than it was back when I was single).
As you can see, I'm all for the kid having his own identity. :)
My in laws did that with both my husband and my sister in law and let me tell you.....it has not been fun. Their credit reports are so screwed up due to information getting put on it for the wrong person. Plus we get creditors calling us thinking they are calling my father in law. I think using a family name as a middle name is perfectly fine but using the whole name just adds confusion later in the child's life.
I wouldn't want to but I like the idea. It's like in Gilmore Girls lol. Lorelei names her daughter Lorelei but everyone calls her daughter Rory.
Interesting discussion.
It's so common to name the boy after the father, and less common to name the girl after the mother.
I'll be interested in more posts on this question.
It's so common to name the boy after the father, and less common to name the girl after the mother.
I'll be interested in more posts on this question.
It's not as common but I've seen it done! I wouldn't do my first name exactly but maybe a similar name and a different middle name. But that's just me.
I actually would not even though my husband says the same thing but I never have liked my name wich is why I would rather put something else lol
Personally I wouldn't want her to have the exact same name as me. Maybe use the same middle name or something but I would not like the same name. We're naming my daughter for both of her grandmothers. My husband's mother passed away when I was 3 months (I'm 6 now) so we are using her first name and my mother really wanted us to name her sophia so that is her middle name for my mom. Rosario Sophia is due April 1st.
don't do it unless you want to. I'm named after my mother and as much as I love her I wish I had my own name.
I don't see anything wrong with that. People give their sons name after there baby daddy
May i asks yy ?? Like is it a reason yy he wants to ?? I on the other hand would not bcusx it may confuse her bt at the end of the day its you and daddys choice so if you like that idea go for it !
My husband is insisting on giving her my full name. My first and middle. I'm just not so sure but he wants to so bad
What do you mean aftee yourself like give her your whole name or just your middle name or something??
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