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[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 daughter is named after family members. My Grandmother had a nice name (Hannah). My Grandfathers did not have names we would use. In the Jewish culture some people just use the first letter or the general "sound" of the name and then give their child the ancestor's Hebrew name, which is a good cop out to a particuarly undesirable name ;) This time around we are naming after my husband's Grandmother, who had an okay name, but nothing I'd use for a first name, so it's what I call "Middle name territory". We'll also use it for the Hebrew name, since it is Biblical. I am not named after anyone, but both of my sisters are and I missed having a Namesake because in Hebrew School they would talk about Namesakes (since nearly every Jewish child has at least one). I think it's a good way to connect your child to their heritage and keep a loved one in your thoughts, but I certainly don't look down on people who choose to not name after someone. That's ridiculous if anyone does. These thingsa re very personal. [/quote]

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