My grandbabies both have middle names from their family. My son gave his son his middle name, my daughter gave her son my husbands middle name.

I am going to be really upset if either of them ever has a daughter and don't name her after me. Do you ever feel jealous like that?

What do you think of family names? Should people do that? Or is it more trouble than it is worth?

I can not speak for my own grand babies, my kiddos are only 5 and 10 months. :) But I can speak that when I was born in 80, 13 months to the day later, my oldest sister gave birth to my first niece, and she now has my middle name. :)

That must be very sweet. I bet your family is pretty close. Is it very common for names to be shared among your family?

For my family, kind of. My sisters youngest (her son) is named after his father. And oddly, my husbands name reversed is his fathers forward. Not sure really sure, sometimes I think they all just got lazy.

For my son I wanted something strong *like his father did* and he became Alexander.
For my girl (odd as it sounds, only stretch mark is a shape of an A in my belly button, and A is the first letter of my sons name, along with my maiden name), so I told the father of my girl, she had to have an A name, and she is Arianna. :)

Only 1 stretchmark. You are the envy of 80% of the childbearing world... That is one of the best stories for naming I have ever heard.

My first name is my mother's confirmation name, Angela. And my middle is Marie from Mary who is my maternal grandmother. My brother's name was going to be some complicated combination of both families such as Earl Allen, but we lost him before I could talk my parents into something he wouldn't get teased for.

I've thought about it before and I'd really like to name my children with a first name thats unique and a middle name for our families. I've always had names I really like from reading tons of books, but I'm very old-fashioned and want to keep ties to family. Of course when/if I have children and have the first boy grandchild on both sides of our families it might be a bit harder to pick a name, since I'm an only child and my sister-in-law just had her third girl.

What is a confirmation name? Is it a religious thing? Sorry if that sounds silly, but I really don't know!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation

My baby's middle name is my brother's first name, but that wasn't intentional. It just happened that way. I chose the first name, daddy chose the middle name. I don't think he even knew my brother's middle name when he chose it!

Only 1 stretchmark. You are the envy of 80% of the childbearing world... That is one of the best stories for naming I have ever heard.

Its true, odd enough, but I find it funny one day when Im like 80 and my grandkids ask how their parents got their names, Ima wipe out the belly and be like "THIS IS HOW".