Naming children after father? I don't want to.

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I'm not a big fan of naming children after the parents. I'm more understanding about naming after grandparents, uncles, ect. My boyfriend wants to name our son Kingston Jr, and I absolutely hate the idea. He seems pretty set on naming him that but I don't like it. It feels like he's pushing me to name him that. Do you guys like the idea of naming children after parents? And should I just let it happen?

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I think every baby should have its own name. I think it is a wrinkle idea to name children after parents, uncles, grandfathers, etc. not good at all. That's just how feel.

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I don't like the idea of it. I don't like the jr sr thing.. We're naming our daughter after my late mother. Her name was Amy and we're naming our daughter Amyah

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Personally I wouldn't. I'm having 2 boys and I'm naming one after my dad and one after my "adopted" dad

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My SO and I come from different cultures and in my SO culture everyone is named after a family member (there could be multiple cousins named after one person) and I'm not really into that. If we had a boy my SO wanted to name him after himself and I already have a hard time saying his first name and I didn't want that for my son. If we were to have a girl he wanted to name her after his mom and I was still at "nope". But in the end we came to a compromise where he got to have the name as a middle and I chose the first. Luckily were having a girl and his moms name is easier to say than his lol

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If we have a boy he will be named after my husband.  There are at least 5 men in my family with the same name. It's just a tradition.

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My husband is a Jr. and wanted to name both of our boys after him by making them the third (he wanted to with our first boy and I said no so he wanted to name our second boy that and I said no) so we compromised and instead of our oldest being Michael David Brown III, we named him Gavin Michael Brown. So he's still named after his dad, but isn't the third. I don't regret it at all. Personally looking at my son Gavin now, I think it would be weird calling him Michael. Lol.

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I am married to a junior and I have a third. I only did it because he was already a junior. I feel like you are the decision maker at this point. Only do it if you want to. There's no tradition already in place.

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My two little ones have their own names including middle names. I'm not a fan of naming children after people (especially if they are still living). My sisters however have used family members names in their children's middle names but its not for me.

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Only if it's a BIG family tradition, like they were going to be a fifth or sixth. Never had this problem cos my OH can't stand his name! Lol

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I'm using my grandmother's name as a middle name for my daughter, partly because i love my grandma, but most importantly because both me and my boyfriend love the name (Veronica). I think it's important to find names both you and your partner love, if you don't both love the name, keep searching. Naming the baby after someone can be a great honor for that person, but remember your baby and your wishes for him are more important than honoring some family member.

Naming children after father? I don't want to.

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