FenrirIII@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 28 days agoI have never met a woman named after her own mothermessage-squaremessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down18
arrow-up1134arrow-down1message-squareI have never met a woman named after her own motherFenrirIII@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 28 days agomessage-square48linkfedilink
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down2·28 days agoGood. Let kids have their own identity. I’ve always cringed at the Ebeneezer Gortlegump IV’s of the world. What I have seen is it is much more common to have the firstborn daughter have a middle name of an ancestor, often grandmother.
minus-squareAviandelight @mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·28 days agoCan confirm myself, my mother, and my maternal grandmother all have the same middle name. Call it a southern thing I suppose. I killed the tradition by being childess and my younger sister refused to pass it to my niece.
Good. Let kids have their own identity. I’ve always cringed at the Ebeneezer Gortlegump IV’s of the world.
What I have seen is it is much more common to have the firstborn daughter have a middle name of an ancestor, often grandmother.
Can confirm myself, my mother, and my maternal grandmother all have the same middle name. Call it a southern thing I suppose. I killed the tradition by being childess and my younger sister refused to pass it to my niece.