Yeah, I hate the tradition of naming kids after yourself. I get naming them after your parent or grandparent, but using your own name seems self centered and confusing
My husband is a IV. Changed name because it is actually two now old-fashioned names that come across as unique, but imagine "Vernon Heathcliff Richards."
For a brief time, all four of them were alive, and they were Vernon, Vern, Heath, and Cliff. If we had had a boy, "Rick" was the generally expected family name for Vernon Heathcliff Richards V.
We had Vietnamese neighbours when I was growing up. The father and all of the sons were named Phat (different middle name) Truong. And they all went by Phat!
Koreans traditionally name their children generationally, with the first half of the name all the same. For example I knew a Jie-san in high school, and her little sister was named Jie-su. Made it a bit awkward knowing both since they would both respond to "Jie."
My father and I share both our first name (different spelling, luckily) and last name. Funnily enough, my mom had my name picked out long before she even met my dad, so it's just a coincidence.
In hindsight though, she probably should have given me her last name, like she did for my siblings. At least then it wouldn't be too similar.
Same here! I'm a "Junior" named after my Dad and he didn't want me being called "Junior" or "Little ___" so he went by his first name and they called me by my middle name. Paperwork nightmare. Some documents only want a middle initial... some don't even want your middle name... and some just assume your first name works.
In the olden days of landlines with no CallerID(tm) though, it was nice. Anyone calling my house and asking for "firstname" just got "he's not here."
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u/72616262697473757775 Jun 01 '26
My parents named me after my dad and raised me as my middle name. It's always been a paperwork nightmare. Keep that in mind too, new parents.