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| Wichita | Jun 7 2005, 10:11 AM Post #1 |
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The first Sunday of every month at my church is the one devoted to giving new babies a name and a blessing. Since we don't believe children should be baptized until age 8, this is the religous ceremony for newborns. Naming a child seems like a huge responsibility and, I confess, I sometimes wonder what the heck those people were thinking. 1) I have a natural reluctance to name a child "Junior" or "II". The next generation is pressured to make it "III" and, if they do" then "IV" and "IV" are virtually impossible for the parents to resist. I was about to say that I really didn't know of any in my family, but my grandfather, father, oldest brother, his oldest son, and his son's oldest son all have the same first name, but different middle names. My father and oldest brother didn't go by that name until adulthood, but, oddly, they weren't called by their middle name either. My nephew is an identical twin and his brother got the other grandfather's name. My great nephew is known by his middle name and I expect that will likely continue. 2) The dependence or aversion to names that can be shortened. I have a niece who will not call her children by anything but their full first name. We love to torture her by referring to them by something shorter, but she never will. The opposite, is the 27 year old still going by the cutesy version of his name that he was called when he was 2. There should be a happy medium for the child's sake. One of my nieces son's nickname will be brutal in high school - we can already see it coming. He's going to love it (he has that kind of personality), but his mother will hate it. 3) The extremely hard to spell Of course, my name is Rose so perhaps I'm not the best person to talk. Being in Girl Scouting, I saw my share of Tifannee's, etc. You'd have four girls with the same name in a troop and they would spell it four different ways. So, if you've named a kid, how'd you decide? If you haven't, what do you think is important? |
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| DEFIANT | Jun 7 2005, 10:40 AM Post #2 |
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I don't like silly spellings. As far as nicknames go..I don't know....my name's Richard but I went by Ricky for the longest until I was 14 and said this isn't right. I don't like Jrs or MDCLXVI's either....I'm a junior and it just seems that my parents didn't even bother to think of a name for me......all I wanted was a little creativity (even if it led to a name that thousands have). If I named a kid I'd wanted to be unique but not crazy......my mom wanted to name be Obi-Wan...but she thought I'd hate Star Wars (and it would be just an old film)........[sarcasm]good call[/sarcasm]. I wanted to name my children with one Hebrew name and one Gaelic name. |
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| Dandandat | Jun 7 2005, 10:41 AM Post #3 |
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My name is Dante Christopher the Second as I am named after my Grandfather (on my fathers side). We have a sorta tradition where the first masculine child is named after his grandfather. Which means if I keep with it (and have a son) I will be naming him Alberico Pasqual. But My wife would never let me name our son “Alberico Pasqual” so second (unless my brother does it). But my father wouldn’t mind as he does not like his name and goes by Al only. I would however really like it if my first masculine grandson where named after me, I really like my name and would like to see it passed on. Also there is a bond that goes with sharing a name with an elder member of ones family, I really enjoy the fact that I am named after my grandfather. My daughters names are Ezri and Katherine. So they aren’t to bad. So let me ask you this rose what happens if a child is born right after your naming ceremony, do they go three weeks with out a name. Or is it just a formality? |
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| Dandandat | Jun 7 2005, 10:46 AM Post #4 |
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I didn’t like my name when I was younger because it was two different form “normal” names (it didn’t help that my mother didn’t like it either) so I went by its shortened version Dan and then Danny up until I was in high school. In high school Dante started to sound cool to other kids and they started calling me it, since then I have always just went by Dante. But at home I am still called Dan or Danny. |
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| Sophie | Jun 7 2005, 10:53 AM Post #5 |
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I would choose something that isn't popular, but sounds nice. |
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| Dr. Noah | Jun 7 2005, 10:57 AM Post #6 |
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I love the name Zoe for a girl, but my wife doesn't like it,
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| Hoss | Jun 7 2005, 11:55 AM Post #7 |
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I have to say that I am in favor of naming children. Me and my wife just went round and round until we found names on which we could both agree. The middle names were the hardest. |
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| Dandandat | Jun 7 2005, 12:00 PM Post #8 |
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I agree, it gets a little cumbersome when you are in a crowd of people and have only "hey you" to get the attention of your kids, more often then not every one is going to turn around. |
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| Hoss | Jun 7 2005, 12:08 PM Post #9 |
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I think that everyone should go and read Too Many Daves by Dr. Seusse. Here, I'll post it.
I have kids. |
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| WayneSTOSfan | Jun 7 2005, 12:19 PM Post #10 |
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JUST be glad no-one is calling KIDS: Willow Sunshine Ocean Autumn Any more...Unlike most of my cousins |
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| Dandandat | Jun 7 2005, 12:25 PM Post #11 |
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My wife's name is Iris, which is translated into rainbow in Spanish. |
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| gvok | Jun 7 2005, 12:26 PM Post #12 |
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I am the fourth person with my name. I remember it was annoying with mail when I was a kid. Now that I am older I have a greater respect and appreciation for the significance of the name within my family. So I would not change a thing. My wife and I have talked about it and if we have a son he will have to be "the fifth" with (officially) the same name as me but we'll address him as Quint to signify this. |
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| Minuet | Jun 7 2005, 12:29 PM Post #13 |
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The Ashekanzi (Eastern European) Jewish tradition is to name children after family members who have passed on. The hebrew name being more important then the english in this respect. The english name is usually not exactly the same - but bears some relationship to the hebrew. My eldest daughter is named after two of her great grandmothers. My husbands grandmother was named Chaia. She was called by her hebrew name. We made that Chelsea in english. Her middle name is for my grandmother Chanah. This commonly becomes Hannah in English, but my grandmother was called Ann and we gave my daughter the middle name of Anne. My younger daughter is named after her uncle, who died of cancer and my grandfather. Her hebrew name starts with the same letters as thier's did, but is not exact due to the gender difference. My brother-in-law's name was Stewart which became Stephanie and my German grandfather's name was Manfred which became Michelle for a middle name. It's nice to at least know ahead of time what starting letters you are looking at but have the freedom to also find a name you really like personally. A guideline, but not a rule. |
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| fireh8er | Jun 7 2005, 12:30 PM Post #14 |
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I was named after Marcus Aurelius, but my mothers wasn't having it. They compromised and I became Mark Edward.
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| Deleted User | Jun 7 2005, 01:01 PM Post #15 |
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Well, I got my name "Michael" after none other than George Michael. Yes, I know. Bad eh? |
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