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[(Anonymous)]

My unpopular opinion: naming a kid after someone in your family is a stupid and selfish thing to do. It burdens the kid with their namesake and it can also make things confusing when trying to talk to them if their namesake is around or is being talked about. And if you end up using a nickname, what's the fucking point?

Just go with a random name.

[(Anonymous)]

what about honoring a dead family member? I like the legacy of it.

[(Anonymous)]

"Honoring" can be the same thing as burdening someone with a legacy. They're not even born and you're attaching significance to their name. Plus, children shouldn't be used to honor someone else's life - that life was their own and it should stand on its own.

IMO

[(Anonymous)]

Wut?

I have the same name as my aunt, who was named after her and my mom's grandmother (my great-grandmother). I was named after both of them, sort of. I've never felt burdened by it. Most of my family members were named after other people.

I also like it because it avoids naming trends that make your age obvious. My step-grandmother had some children from her first marriage, and her family is like an exhibit on 20th century naming trends. You could look at the names of each generation, and have a general idea of when they were born. Whereas, if I told you my first name, you wouldn't know if it belonged to a toddler, a twenty-something, an old lady, or someone who died a hundred years ago.

[(Anonymous)]

You don't need to name your kid after someone in your family to avoid naming trends.

Also, it seems needlessly complicated to have a family where everyone is named after each other. Must make get togethers fun - or trying to talk about deceased family members. Of course, you could go with nicknames but that brings me back to the original point - why name your kid someone if it's not even going to be his actual name?

And it's great that you don't - but some kids do. And there's no way for parents to know at birth. Giving a random name is neutral. Unless you call a kid "Adolf" or "Cain" or something.

[(Anonymous)]

There aren't a bunch of living people with the same name in my family. My aunt and I were alive at the same time, but my great-grandmother wasn't, so there were only two of us at once. My dad's first name was my grandfather's middle name and my middle name is my grandfather's first name (it's kind of unisex), so it's not like any of us are being called the same thing.

As for "why name your kid something if it's not going to be his actual name," well, do you think people should just name their kids Bob and Bill and Tom and Katie instead of Robert, William, Thomas, and Katherine? And if the parents do use the name they want to call their kid, should they enforce some kind of "no nicknames ever" policy? Like, don't anyone dare call little Christina "Chris" or "Tina," because if they wanted to call her one of those, they'd have put it on the birth certificate?

(Oh, and relating to your last comment, there was a kid named Adolf at my school. He was black!)

[diet_poison]

Maybe in some cases, I don't know...I was named after a great aunt and it's never been a problem for me. My middle name is the same as several family members on the other side of the family. My sister's middle name is the same as our mom's middle name and our paternal grandmother's first name (cool coincidence) and my brother's middle name came from a great-grandfather.

It was never really a big deal to us, so maybe it would be different if our parents were like, always reminding us and trying to get us to live up to these people? It's not like that though, and I've never felt like I should be anyone but myself in their eyes.

[illiadandoddity]

My middle name is Annetta, which is my grandmother's name, and I have never once felt burdened with it. It's just a pretty family name.

[(Anonymous)]

Even if I had been named after a relative, there's really no one in my family I feel would be a burden to be named after. There's no family business, everyone has chosen or fallen into different occupations, no one was famous or wealthy, no one is some kind of family celebrity whom no one can shut up about (like "She raised twelve kids during the Depression" or "He was a war hero"). A namesake doesn't mean there's a legacy to live up to or any pressure to try.

[tabaqui]

I kinda feel the same. People were all 'are you going to name your kid after blah blah blah?' (that's what my sis and bro in law both did for all their kids) and i was like....no? My grandparents on both sides had horrible names (Hilda, Meta) and my mom has never liked her name, and i wanted our daughter to have her *own* name.

It's like the kids names at the end of the last Harry Potter books - makes me cringe.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's a little different when you think the names are just rubbish. And the pressure seems to be more on you than your daughter.

[(Anonymous)]

Named after my aunt. They tried to spell it differently (I say tried because they actually didn't know how my aunt spelled her name and accidentally spelt it the same, heh). Can't say it would have made much difference to my life to be named differently. Occasionally they'd call her lovely, but they'd call me that anyway?