Naming kids after ancestors

[Rainbow Quartz]

Ooooh this is an old thread! Lovely to see it revived though, and, nutkin, I do hope you are still on RootsChat and can tell us what you named your baby, who obviously is no longer a baby but coming up to nine years old?
Getting back to the subject in hand, although most of my grandfathers had a first name John, some of them had a middle name of Oliver, and some of their brothers also had the middle name Oliver, and one of my uncles was a John Oliver. I eventually found out that the Oliver came from my 3x great grandma's maiden name, and now apparently it is the most popular boy's name, so what goes round comes round as they say? This also really helped me in making connections to the wider family who had also continued the tradition of using Oliver as a middle name.
The post regarding 'needing' a middle name in the USA is also interesting, as the mother's maiden name is usually kept after marriage, as I believe they also do in Spain. This was fantastic for me in tracing a half sister who I didn't know existed until a couple of years ago, because, although she's married, and also already has a middle 'christian' name, she kept her maiden name, which is the same as mine, as her 'middle' name. Without this tradition, I don't think I would ever have found her!

[777777]

Oops... didn't mean to resurrect a zombie thread. Must learn to read dates.

[panic]

It might be an old thread, doesn't mean it can't be resuscitated   

My sister-in-law did not want to name their children after relatives as she believes its bad luck. As I do more family history research, the possibility I uncover someone with the same name as their children is  increasingly likely  . Already have found one, but not said anything, lest it cause a rift 

[Gillg]

Sarah is a frequently occurring name on both sides of my family.  My paternal gt-grandmother, my maternal grandmother, her cousin, my mother, my cousin, my daughter and others - though not all as main first name.  My daughter recently had a baby girl.  I didn't want to interfere, but of course was hoping for another Sarah. I  was thrilled when she was named Sadie - my mother Sarah Ann's pet name all her life - a great compromise and a pretty name,too. 

Gillg

[pinefamily]

Thomas has been a recurring name in my paternal family since their arrival in Australia. So when my wife was pregnant, we made an agreement that I would name the son, she the daughter. However, that all changed on the birth of our son. I proposed Thomas, with the middle name of Dowdeswell, which would make him TD the fourth. My wife put her foot down, and we compromised with Thomas Oliver, my grandfather's and father's names.

[BevL]

Hi,
We used the children's second name to carry on some of the family names. My husband's name for our first son; our daughter's from my mother; 2nd son's after my grandfather and the 3rd son after my husband's father.  That way we had what we wanted and also carried on some of the family names.
BevL

[WhiskyMac]

I have a triple barrel surname. Came with the marriage certificate ..... Lol. My husband is from overseas and that alone is enough to have contend with as no-one seems to be able to pronounce it correctly, never mind spell it.

His ancestry has been enormously difficult to trace (records not easily accessible) and we got fed up with naming conventions. The first son named after the father etc. This occurred in my own family in the Uk several generations ago.

So as with the last generation in both our families we have opted to keep it simple and go for a name we like, and in our case no middle names.