Naming kids after ancestors

[rovert]

Newest twig born to our family today, Garandson number 5 Lucas Frederick.  The middle name after my father.

A nice touch I think

[nutkin]

It seems that my husband and I are going to have to put this to teh test as we are going to have a baby in 6 months.  We might want to start picking out names soon.  Might take the whole time to agree.

[smokey]

Enoch seemed to be a favorite name in my family fortunately the tradition seemed to die out before I was born!!
However I did inherit my middle name Ernest from my Grandfather.
My daughters middle name is Grace after her Greatgranmother and Grandmother and one of my grandsons has my name as a middle name.

Smokey

[Willow 4873]

Congratulations Rovert and Nutkin!

More twigs for the ever expanding trees

Willow x

[J.A.M.]

Molar
 
The easiest way filling out forms if the person has only 1 forename it to enter N.M.I. which means no middle initial. Then again the name could be misconstrued as Nmi, pronounced 'my', being of Asian origin. You do what feels right & hope all goes well.

[Burrow Digger]

My grand parents names were Lily & Hedley Roy. He was always called Roy. Neither of them were named after any relatives that I can find.
My father is John Norman - named after Roys brother. But he has always been called Norman
My brother was also called John Norman - but is always called John.
My sisters and I have first names that are not related to any family. My middle name is Frances - which I detest. Its after my mothers Father Francis - he was always called Frank. He died before my 10th birthday.

My husband is French. Our son is Jean-Philippe NMI. And he has always been called J.P. Thats his nick name. JP is named after both our Dads.  Jean from my Dad (changed the John to Jean) and Philippe from my FIL (changed the middle name Philip to Philippe).

IF one was to look at my Burrow ancestors - those family names were William, Isaac, John, James, Sarah, Amy, Emma, and Jane. The last Burrow with any of those names was my gt grandfather William - Lily's dad. 

Since William emigrated from England to NZ, a new country calls for new names, right?   

BD

[sarah]

It looks like my ancestors were big fans of Florence Nightingale, every generation had a Florence. 

and then there was Horatio....

If I have the chance I would love to use some of these great names as a middle name, I think it would be nice to continue on some of the names 

[777777]

I plan to name my first two daughters after my grandmothers (Eibhlín and Treasa). I don't like either of my grandfathers' names though so won't inflict them on my sons...

My parents were both named in a traditional way (eldest son gets paternal grandfather's name, eldest daughter gets paternal grandmother's name, second son gets maternal grandfather's name, etc). I'm named after a great-aunt and my middle name is that of an aunt who died in infancy.

[Rudolf H B]

I have got a tree!

Three given names and three surnames, in total four names:
My second name Henning is a common christian name and the surname of my father's mother.
My third name Jacob is the surname of my mother.
[A fourth name could be Barthold, my mother's mother had the surname Bartels (= Barthold's son)].

There is one Rudolf on the paternal side and there are several on the maternal side:
- Rudolph Kummerer had been the inventor of the Australian wool business,
   living in London & Sydney.
- Rudolf Goldschmidt, businessman in Manchester.
- Arthur Rudolph Goldsmith, 1918 AIF, Australian Light horses, mill director in Mt. Eliza VIC.
his cousin (2nd grade):
- Rudolf Jacob, student, Bavarian Infantery, KIA 1916 like two other cousins (1st grade):
   a Middlesex lieutenant and a Bavarian Leutnant. 

My brother has got Carl as second name. The name is now present in the 8th generation starting with J. Carl Alexander Holtzmann (1699-1784), his godparent had been the grandfather of his elder halfbrother. [Holtzmann's law / Закон_Хольцмана had been invented by Carl Alexander's grandson.]

Regards
Rudolf H. Boettcher