name your daughter after yourself?
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name your daughter after yourself?
| Tue, 11-08-2005 - 9:11pm |
My very best friend is pregnant with her third child, not due until May. She has 2 boys, ages 8 (Peirce) and 3 (Kyle). Although it is still too early to know the sex, she is thinking about if its a girl, on naming it after herself. (Not sure how DH feels about that though.)
She is named after her Grandmother. Her name is Alida (Ah-leeda), a name I like since we have been best friends since we have been 5 years old.
What do you think? I know its "okay" for the sons to be named after the dad, but rarely have I heard this the other way around. Just wondering how many of us out there would consider doing this??
Theresa

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I know of a lot of girls named after their moms.
When I was growing up our neighbor named Jane had a daughter Jane Anne. She in turn named her daughter Sinead (gaelic for Jane).
One of my school friends was named Margaret after her mom (her mom was Peggy, she was Maggie).
My friend Mary Elizabeth (Mary Beth) named her daughter Mary Katherine (Mary Kate).
The sister of one of DD's classmates has the same name as her mom, but a different nickname. It is an unusual family name.
I don't think there is anything wrong with it, as long as there is potential for a different nickname if the daughter wants her own identity (i.e. she could be called Allie). Another option would be for the daughter to call herself by her middle name (A. Rose Lastname, like lots of guys do... I know tons of J. Edwards, R. Stewarts, P. Roberts, etc.). Another option is to use Alida as a middle name.
It is temptng sometimes and feels like it will make you closer, but to be 3rd in a family of the same name leave you no room for feeling unique - maybe consider it as a middle name?
Good luck
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