Our daughter is Elizabeth Jane – Elizabeth is my mom and Jane is my mother in law. With such a long first name, and a long last name too we knew we wanted a short middle name, and we thought it would be a nice tribute to both of her grandmothers.

Using nicknames is fine, as long as the nickname sounds “normal”. Nicknaming your baby “Peanut” doesn’t mean that is the name that should go on the birth certificate.

Our son’s first name is named after my husband’s father, and his middle name is from my dad’s 1st name. As for our daughter, her middle name is my 1st name.

Well I personally don’t have any kids yet but I love the idea of giving kids family names. When my sister had a baby a few years ago, her husband (William Raymond Wright IV) wanted him to be named after him… My sister didn’t like it and her and Will were able to reach a compromise… And Quintin was born. Brittany looked it up and Quintin means the 5th…

My brother’s name is James and when it came time to name his first son we suggested Jameson… you know JAMES-son. Me and my mom thought it was cute and his middle name was Lee after the men in our family, his middle name included.

My name was Tara until it was legally changed to Terri, but I prefer not naming kids nicknames. I also like naming kids after family member, but I’m not sure if I would do it myself.

My husband and I gave our two children our middle names as their first names. We have a son, Lane, and a daughter, Brynn. We both love our middle names and wanted to pass them down.

My eldest son’s name is Jack Ian Robin. His great nan’s name is Jackie (so he is sort of named after her!) his grandad is Ian, and his great grandad’s name is Robin.

My other son Charlie Oliver James wasn’t intentionally named after anyone, but after registering his birth we discovered that my great grandad’s name was Charlie James, (who I never knew about until then) and my son Charlie was born on what would have been his birthday. Spooky!!

I think it is a lovely idea to include relative’s names when naming a child.

Im Jenna Elizabeth, and my brother is Andrew William..

I know we have a William(Bill) in our family.. im not sure about an Elizabeth, but then.. my mother may just of been obessed with the royal family

As for my own kids.. My Family name was Harrison, but with all the marriages and what not.. my brother and i were the only 2 grandkids to take that surname.. and now, im married. So theres only my brother.

So, Harrison is going to be the name of my first born son. And, im going to use my grandmothers middle name somewhere along the line.. not her first name because its weird lol. Shes called Ivona Charlotte.

We do have though..
April Michelle(aunt)
Amber Ivona(gran)
Alice Leslie(uncle)

April, Amber, Alice are siblings and Michelle and Les are their parents.

We named one son Shelby Taylor (you used to see “Shelby” more as a boy’s name), Taylor was my husband’s grandmother’s maiden name.

Our second son is Andrew Marks. Marks was my grandfather, and he was so beloved, many of his grandsons and great-grandsons have Marks as their middle name.

It is hard to choose a name! I remember we went back and forth on the first names. I kept trying to picture business cards (like the above poster mentioned) with the boys’ names. Would they sound like they were little kids later on when they were trying to make a good grown-up impression?

I don’t think it’s a new direction or new trend, I just think celebs are deciding to go the same route their parents or grandparents might’ve done, taking a page from their book and naming their kids in honor of a parent/ grandparent/cherished loved one, etc. And I’m one, since my middle name is the French version of my mother’s first name. I’m still trying to like it, though I’ve just grown used to it.

And I would do the same. I already know that I want to name my daughter(whenever I do have her) after my grandmother, though I could say it’d be after my grandmother, who shares the name with her aunt, whom I believe she was named after, and who named one of her daughter’s, my cousin, after her. But really, I just love the name and want to use it as a part of my daughter’s name.