Here’s a question for the community. What is everyone’s feelings towards naming your first born son after you?
^Either you’re terribly vain or terribly unoriginal.
Only if he is the Stallion that Mounts the World.
That’s how I got my name, but I wouldn’t continue the trend.
i heard that some couples take turns. let the wife chose the name of the first born and the husband choses the name of the next one. or yo can fight abut it for months
I don’t see a problem with it. But I wouldn’t do it.
Although, my parents gave me my dad’s first name and a different middle name (I go by my middle name, but have the same initials) and my older brother got my Dad’s middle name as his middle name. I always liked having a small connection to my parents like that. Our daughter wound up with the same middle name as her mom (and coincidentally same initials) which I think is kind of cool. But that’s just my view.
I’ve never understood the point of it, your sons will have your surname so there’s no need to also give them your first name. It defeats the whole purpose of having a 1st name.
At least you guys have the sense to add in joe bloggs the III or IV even if it does look fucking ridiculous.
This is why I wouldn’t continue. This whole “The XX” thing is stupid. So because I have the same exact name (down to the middle name too) am I obligated to continue this? Let’s face it by the time you get to III, IV if you choose not to continue it you’re kinda a prick. I’m just going to stop it before it starts lol.
As I’m III, I didn’t see any reason not to name him IV.
A reasonable legacy: his great grandfather was a professor of education at USC and the author of “Form and Style in Thesis Writing” that’s still a standard today.
BS - i was raised using my midde name too. I feel your pain homie
^If you’re a Junior or a 3rd, then somebody else has already set the precedent. If that were the case, I’d go along with the legacy.
I would have actually been Gringo Notbob the XXXIV as the 1st born sons for countless generations had the same name. I’m glad they decided to give me an original name.
My son would have been the 4th but we chose to go a different direction. For most of my life I was dead-set on continuing the tradition but as I got older I realized it really didn’t matter.
Being the 23rd Robert the Bruce would be pretty cool…
i think this must be an american thing. i don’t know any canadian who is joe blow the third.
further, i do agree that joe blow the first better have been the king of BSDs and that the name’s lineage should end when you’re a loser and fail to live up to daddy’s killing it.
Do people call you “Trip”?
This practice always seemed narcissistic to me. Of all the things that you could admire and name your kid after, you choose yourself?
However, I think naming your kid after your parents is potentially a good practice, as it can reinforce intergenerational relationships.
Giving your kid the same name in a generational series can also be ok, as you are fulfilling some expectation and you’re not explicitly naming the kid after yourself. However, after “the third” , it starts getting weird and your kid will become “that guy”.
^You outline a difficult scenario for success. If you name your kid after yourself you’re narcissistic. But, if Jr. (or II if the dad is dead) is okay to name his son the third since that’s carrying on a legacy, but then going on to the IV is just weird.
That means the only dad to not mess up naming his son is the second.
I was always anti but actually my wife is pushing for it if we have a boy. I personally never liked the idea of permenantly attaching ‘junior’ to my son’s name.
it’s weird. i agree with the “III becomes that pretentious guy automatically”. my sons have cool names. one is a mash-up of Russian Czars and the other sounds like a cowboy. the third will be a Czar cowboy. my wife likes Russian history and i’m a dude.
^Your comment if funny because “dude” was originally used by cowboys as an insult for those “city slickers” that came out to the country to ride for fun, hence “dude ranch.”