well... This is the argument we always have with my husband. We are going to start ttc next year (cause of money, my insurance will start and I will be done with my AA degree at least... I am 24 years old) and he says that if we ever have a boy he wants the boy to be name after him.... why??????????????? I don’t want to! Then you call your son and it sound like if you are calling your husband! They will both turn around! What you think?
2007-11-12 08:02:09 · 23 answers · asked by :) 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
They are already passing their bloodline on through the last name. Why do they need their whole name passed on? I will not name my son the same. I have already told my husband that. He is named after his father, and they get each others bills. It is not only confusing for you, but for companies that they deal with.
2007-11-12 08:13:53 · answer #1 · answered by ly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dont let him, its rediculous, why men have this obsession with callin their sons after them is pathetic and proves they have no imagination.. my husband thought he would get his own way and call our first born if its a boy after him but i told him to get a life and if he wanted any part in naming the baby then he needed to get real, we've both agreed on a beautiful boys name with his middle name as the babys middle name.. Men never grow up do they... I also told him that if i was carying the baby for 9 months then giving birth then i had more right to choose the babys name.. Good Luck
2007-11-12 16:31:25 · answer #2 · answered by carla P 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I personally don't like my husband's name and that is why I don't care to name a son after him.
My dad and brother were both named the same and my brother was a Jr.. Now that my dad is deceased my brother appreciated his name even more and plans to name his son the same to be a III. Some men like the tradition. Some men don't. If you have a boy...it's both of yours and should be both of your decision. I would talk to him about it and see if he would be content with having his name as the middle name instead.
2007-11-12 16:09:39 · answer #3 · answered by breisingermela 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont like my husband's first name, but being that our first was a boy we named him after him, I got to pick out his middle name so...he goes by his middle name, even in school. I just did it because my husband's father passed away and he was named after him so we named our son after him too.
Just talk it out with him you should be able to come up with something you both agree on. GOOD LUCK!
2007-11-12 22:29:26 · answer #4 · answered by Maria D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I told my husband no way!! Im pregnant with a boy now and he can have the middle name but I just dont think they need the first name too! geez they already get the last name for life!
2007-11-12 16:10:13 · answer #5 · answered by Hi my name is... 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you feel strongly about this, try to go with a combination of his name, or use his first name as the baby's middle name. Maybe try to match your husband's name with a middle name where you can abbreviate your son's name.....like TJ or JT or JD...things like that. Compromise with him. I'm sure if you're creative enough, both of you can be happy.
2007-11-12 16:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by Just Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a bloke, and soon to be father I can say there is nothing i want less than my son to be named after me, it isn't that I hate my name as I quite like it but in my wifes family it is a tradition to name a son after his father and any second son after an uncle. and I hate it, all of my wives cousins and her brother have "little" put in front of their names, so even now as some of them are pushing 30 they are "little graham" and "little stanley" I think it is terrible to have to try and shake this and I guess until their dad's die they will still be called little (as their dads are called "big Graham" etc.) or when they have a son I guess they would be "middle Graham".
what really annoyed me is that when I said (to great shock) that i didn't want a son named after me, they said that's ok, you can name him Robin (After my wifes father who she hasn't seen since she was 5, or Paul (after her step father, and her brothers name.) I put my foot down hard on this one.
The very most I would look for is to put my grandfathers or fathers name as his middle name, that way when he is older he can decide if he wants to use it.
2007-11-13 08:22:03 · answer #7 · answered by ebungle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My hubby wanted me to but I wouldn`t.
I wanted a name that was not in either of our families.
So I picked a name that no one in either family ever had and gave my son my hubbies name for his middle name.
Now that he is grown, there is no one calling him and telling him that he owes x amount of money or that he is being sued for non support because his first and last name is the same as 20 other people.
2007-11-12 16:12:49 · answer #8 · answered by Blessed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husbands name has been passed down for generations and he wants our first son to have his name, as much as Im not a fan of it (Glenn), but because it is so important to him and his family, I will do it in a heartbeat. I guess it depends on how important it is to him, and if he is wiling to compromise on a name that you like that has part of his name in it or something. Good Luck :)
2007-11-12 16:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by ProudWifeAndMommy23 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't like it either. Obviously, it's been done for centuries, and somehow people managed to know who was being yelled at :-)
I think a good compromise would be using your husband's first name as your son's middle name.
2007-11-12 16:10:40 · answer #10 · answered by eli_star 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋