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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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As a child of immigrants from a culture where this is not the norm, can someone explain this proliferation of "we used a family name?"
Does this mean there are a handful of names that just keep getting reused each generation (see Bushes)?
Are we talking Jr, III, IV?
Is it grandma/grandpa's name? 
Or is it some random aunt's name that happened to be Isabelle and you are saying you used a "family name" to sound superior (ie I didn't pick it because it was trendy).

I think saying "i used a family name" means doing something like the Bushes. Just naming your kid after grandma is doing that, not "using a family name.". The latter sounds like you've got a bunch of names recycled.  [/quote]

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