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POLL: Pretentious to name your son after yourself?

i don't know why they would want to do that to their kid... maybe only if it were going on many generations already they wouldn't have a choice... but come on...
 
Originally posted by: rh71
i don't know why they would want to do that to their kid... maybe only if it were going on many generations already they wouldn't have a choice... but come on...
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A guy at work just named his child IV. I can kind of see that, because he "has" to keep the tradition going. They don't actually call him IV though, but officially he is.

 
It usually doesn't happen to daughters because historically wifes take the last name of their husband.
So if you did name your daughter after your wife it would only last up until she got married and couldn't
be past down a generation. So it would be pointless.
 
Old fashioned yes. Pretentious no.

Consider the fact that I know not one, but TWO families that all have the same initals. That's just campy.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: rh71
i don't know why they would want to do that to their kid... maybe only if it were going on many generations already they wouldn't have a choice... but come on...
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A guy at work just named his child IV. I can kind of see that, because he "has" to keep the tradition going. They don't actually call him IV though, but officially he is.
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I read this as "He named him IV" as in the bag of fluid they feed intravenously
 
Sons are ok, to an extent. I know a girl though whose first and middle names were feminized versions of her father's name. His name was Ken, she was Kena. His middle name was Omar, hers was Oma. That, I think is pretty bad.
 
Originally posted by: Ynog
It usually doesn't happen to daughters because historically wifes take the last name of their husband.
So if you did name your daughter after your wife it would only last up until she got married and couldn't
be past down a generation. So it would be pointless.
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I've never heard of anybody changing their first name when they got married 😉
Sons are ok, to an extent. I know a girl though whose first and middle names were feminized versions of her father's name. His name was Ken, she was Kena. His middle name was Omar, hers was Oma. That, I think is pretty bad.
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That's profoundly retarded.
 
Speaking as someone named after his dad, it is annoying as all hell, and I will never inflict it upon any of my children.
 
My middle name is my dad's first name. I'm glad they didn't give me that as my first name, or I'd be Albert. 🙂
 
My husband is a 'junior' but his mother didn't like the way that sounded so she named him the II.

To this day, members of the family call him "Little First Name" to distinguish him from his dad. Since he's basically bigger than his dad (in every way that I can see with his clothes on, of course!) it sounds pretty ridiculous. Heck, I think calling someone "Little" anything is kind of embarrassing!

So, when it came time to name our son, I lobbied for my husband's first name as our son's middle name. I told him that I felt awkward calling our son and him the same thing.
 
No... so long as your name doesn't lend itself to pretentiousness... my name is Blake, so I doubt I would name my son after me.

Oh, and if your name if JoeBob, naming your kid JoeBobJim doesn't count.. 😛
 
I am named after my father and my son is named after me.

My son did not carry this on with grandchildren Tyler and Kendall.
 
My ex-gf's family had this going on:

Demus Onus R. father of
Onus Olin R. father of
Olin William R. father of
William Robert R.

Thank god they didn't have any more sons....
 
Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
My ex-gf's family had this going on:

Demus Onus R. father of
Onus Olin R. father of
Olin William R. father of
William Robert R.

Thank god they didn't have any more sons....
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Damn, why do people do sh*t like that?

 
my middle name is my grandfathers first name, which is also my fathers first name (he's a jr). i would like to (middle) name my kid after his grandfather as well
 
My son's middle name is my father's first name. I didn't want to name him after me though. Never entered my mind actually. He's so different from me anyway...it just wouldn't fit.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
My son's middle name is my father's first name. I didn't want to name him after me though. Never entered my mind actually. He's so different from me anyway...it just wouldn't fit.
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I think grandfather's name is great as a middle, or even a first. We'll probably use my dad's name for skoorbaby.son, if we have one.

 
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