Why people in America do not name the children鈥檚 after the parents and grand parents?

Why people in America do not name the children鈥檚 after the parents and grand parents?


To me it mines that do not love the families and they refuse to hnomer them? If you not name you family how you going to remember them and how you remember ther names after they die? How can they continuo the family tree? And how can you give fathers name to you children鈥檚, and call them no. 1 no.2? don鈥檛 you thing is stupid. To me is jus mean lees, and ignore. Tell me.

Why people in America do not name the children鈥檚 after the parents and grand parents?
Well, it has nothing to do with not loving their family, or not wanting to honor them. You honor your family through your actions, not through a name. Some names are just getting to be old fashioned. Besides, I feel it gives children a sense of individuality to be given a name, chosen special, just for them. Your family tree really doesn't have anything to do with the name, ti continues as your children have children, and then they have children, and so on.
Reply:Well, I think some people still do this. As for in my family, my Mom didn't want to name my brother after my Dad because she didn't want to call her son 'Junior' all his life. If you're referring to last names (family name), it's still fairly common for the child to have the father's last name, sometimes both the mother's %26amp; the father's, occasionally they don't use the father's. Hope that helped.
Reply:My dad was named after his dad but myself and my brothers have names that are unique to them. I guess some parents just want their kids to have a unique name that no one in their family has ever had, it makes life more interesting. It would be boring if the same names were used over and over again in the same family, but there's still lot's of people who name their children after their parents or grandparents.
Reply:I was named after my biological father, a man who left before I was old enough to have any memory of him! I think naming a child after a parent is one of the worst things you can do to a child! I've still never met the man for whom I was named, although I've had opportunities. My theory was if he spent years without trying to contact me, why should I have any interest in meeting him?





I legally changed my name years ago, I didn't even retain the surname!





My grandfather was the third to bear his name, but was from an abusive household and never spoke with any member of his family after he ran away at 16 to enter WWII. He hated having to wear the name of the man who had caused so much grief to both himself and his siblings as children.





Having said that, I also have other family members named for grandparents and such, and they all go by either nicknames or names to which they've changed as they find their birth names too old fashioned!
Reply:I think you may have meant to put this in another category.


Who cares if you honor crazy names in the family tree. Some names need to just die with the ancestor who was stuck with them in the first place.


and you don't like having Jr, Ist, 2nd and 3rd?


why? you like keeping great grandpas name but not the fathers?
Reply:Well, sometimes they do with middle names... But names are strictly preferential of the parents; there's not much culture to that, and it's not your place to say how we do things (especially something so trivial as naming children) is stupid or not.





You say we're idiots? You're making a huge deal about how WE name OUR kids... Yar, you got me there, buddy.





I respect your country and your culture, and more importantly your rights. Now, you can respect ours, or you can get over it.
Reply:One great thing that we have here i the USA is freedom to name our children what we want. IF we want to honor our family members with family names we can. However, if my last name was Pigg or Hogg I probably would let the child have my maiden name. My grandson was named after his great grandfathers, my father and my husband's father, and the name has made him miserable all his life. He never knew either man. Although these two men were some of the greatest men in the world, the child doesn't like the name. So why do that? We are intelligent people here in this country and we enjoy our freedoms. If you don't appreciate our ways, keep it to yourself.
Reply:People remember by looking at old pictures? Also some people do name their children after themselves. Secondly what if you don't want to honor your family? Also, I don't think someone named their kids no. 1 and no. 2.
Reply:I'm the 4th?





I plan to name my second son my name (not my first, just so it's something random) if i ever decide to have a son...
Reply:I named my oldest daughter after two great-grandmothers and one grandmother and my youngest is named after another grandmother who happened to share a middle name with a grandfather.


Who says we don't honor our families!?!
Reply:I live in America and was named after my grand parents. Generalizing the entire country doesn't make you look smart, quite the opposite.
Reply:I like children to be individuals. They already keep their surname.

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