Naming kids after ancestors

[nutkin]

My husband and I are having a discussion..What do you name a baby?  I would love to use some of the names in my tree..  Thomas Tyson, William Parkison,  Alexander Dugald, Robert John, etc...I think they are good solid names that respect our ancestry. 

He says no, we are not naming a child after your dead ancestors.  I think it is a nice thing.  A nice way to recognize your family's past.  He thinks it is morbid and try to come up with a new name so as not to drive descendents crazy when researching our tree in one hundred years from now.

What do you think? Kristin

[Welsh Jen]

My eldest daughter has my Paternal Grandmother's middle name "May" as my Grandmother had recently passed away when my eldest was born and that was the reasoning behind the middle name being passed on & my youngest has my middle name. If one of my girls was a boy then he would have had my husbands 1st name (as he doesn't like his middle name).

We discussed these naming patterns but chose to stick to middle names and not 1st names and also we did not want to name our children after members of the family as we would have caused offence if we named after one side of the family and not the other etc etc. 

[JillJ]

I think it is important to make sure that the forenames go with the surname and to think carefully about what they might be shortened to by schoolmates in the future because those names tend to stick.

I recall a friend telling me she went school with a girl who always wrote her name as Mary R. Pigg.   It took years for them to discover that the R was for Rhoda!   (Hope she isn't a rootschatter!!!!)

Jill

[Welsh Jen]

  Mary R. Pigg.   It took years for them to discover that the R was for Rhoda!   (Hope she isn't a rootschatter!!!!)

I think that name should be in the funny names thread!         

[Annahannah]

My granddaughter has 3 given names.  Two her mother loved, and the 3rd because my mother asked to have the baby named after a sister who died in childhood.

My daughter agreed to the sister's 2nd name, because not for anything would she name a baby 'Florence'!  So the 3rd name is 'Rose'.

Anna

[mag_pie]

Hi
I used to hate my middle name.      Until I discovered it in the family for at least 200 years       so know I'm well proud of it!!!!
Phil..........oh and Thomas

[nutkin]

You are right when I do not want to offend anyone on either side of the family. 

I figure I took the husband's last name so why cannot I have a few of my family names in the mix.  My hubby's family surname is Campbell.  Luckily that goes with many first names. (my maiden name is of Ukrainian origin and does not go with many forenames).

I would never want to give a child a horrible name but sometimes we go too far in trying to find a name that won't rhyme with anything.  My sister-in-law will only name children that have uni-s e x  names. 

[Fifer]

My Grandfathers name was Angus Hughes Cook but i dont think i would have the nerve to name one of my kids Angus when they were born they would have been.




Angus Hughes Cook Brass  :-\doesnt ring does it so we named them Aaran and Ethan 




Fifer

[moscan]

I named my daughter after a book and her grandmother and her great -grandmothers surname... Lorna Ann Aston... she is delighted with her name she says she is keeping the tradition when (and if) she ever has children...

Best wishes

Mo