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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for those of you who chose family names for your DC.  Would you have done the same thing if people in your family all had awful names, or did you just happen to get lucky that your family members had great monikers?

It feels to me like there's often this subtle (or sometimes not so subtle) air of superiority among those who pick family names for their kids--like parents who (gasp!) choose names they just happen to like are somehow beneath everyone else.

If you're lucky enough that grandma had a beautiful and (surprise!) suddenly trendy name, congratulations, but please don't look down on me for not naming my kid Bernice or Aloysius.

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My three kids are all named after ancestors.  It is my family tradition, as is using surnames as middle names.  I named my kids family names to honor my family, but I don't see why that makes me snooty.  I certainly don't give a damn about whether anyone else uses family names, so it sounds to me as though your perceived "subtle air of superiority" says more about you than it does about me.

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Oh please.  PP clearly isn't trying to implicate everyone who's ever used a family name.  If the shoe fits, wear it.  If it doesn't, don't.  But don't assume the phenomenon doesn't exist simply because you don't engage in it.

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You know, there are family names, and then there are family names.  I don't think it's snooty to name your son "William Henry Jones" (for example) if William Henry was dear old Granddad's name.  But to name him "McIntyre Carruthers Jones" (totally made up example) or some other usage of your ancestors' surnames - that seems pretentious to me.  To each her own. [/quote]

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