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Help[Opinions] Re: BA, plus questions and a combo
in reply to a message by noel
I'm not a fan at all.
1. Because Brittani is outdated and poorly spelled no matter how lovely mom's friend may be.
2. Because I wouldn't want my child and bff to have the same name, especially not a first name if they're going to be in one another's lives (and you have to assume they will be).
I wouldn't like it at all if my friend did it for their child's first name. When I was a year or two old, a friend of my mom's named her newborn daughter after me and my best friend. (Our mothers were who were there for her when she had her baby so rather than name her daughter Wanda Cynthia after them, she named her daughter Lindsey Nicole after their young daughters.) Even though we rarely saw this girl, I think it's been weird for all of us most of our lives. She originally went by Nicole which was weird for my friend and then she grew up and started to go by Lindsey which was weird for me. It always felt like she didn't get her own identity. Idk. And from what I know of her, she's a sweet girl, but she was always both looking to be her own person while simultaneously trying to make my bff and I really proud of her. It was like she always wanted our approval and I feel like without the name tethering us together that she probably wouldn't have cared (which is how it should be). Idk. It's not the same, but I don't like naming babies after people who are still alive or who are relatively young. (And my personal feelings aside, I'm part Jewish and we don't name after living people anyway.)
I don't like when daughters are named after their mothers for much of the same reason. I don't like children named after other people much at all. I just want children to have their own identities.
Obviously I had a lot more feelings on that than I realized.
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Evgeniy • Vyvyan • Dashiell • Brooklyn • Sebastian • James • Nikita • Silviu • Hadley • Caius
Natalia • Viviana • Gratiana • Eugenia • Maximiliana • Anemona • Valentyna • Daciana • Feodosia • Harmony
1. Because Brittani is outdated and poorly spelled no matter how lovely mom's friend may be.
2. Because I wouldn't want my child and bff to have the same name, especially not a first name if they're going to be in one another's lives (and you have to assume they will be).
I wouldn't like it at all if my friend did it for their child's first name. When I was a year or two old, a friend of my mom's named her newborn daughter after me and my best friend. (Our mothers were who were there for her when she had her baby so rather than name her daughter Wanda Cynthia after them, she named her daughter Lindsey Nicole after their young daughters.) Even though we rarely saw this girl, I think it's been weird for all of us most of our lives. She originally went by Nicole which was weird for my friend and then she grew up and started to go by Lindsey which was weird for me. It always felt like she didn't get her own identity. Idk. And from what I know of her, she's a sweet girl, but she was always both looking to be her own person while simultaneously trying to make my bff and I really proud of her. It was like she always wanted our approval and I feel like without the name tethering us together that she probably wouldn't have cared (which is how it should be). Idk. It's not the same, but I don't like naming babies after people who are still alive or who are relatively young. (And my personal feelings aside, I'm part Jewish and we don't name after living people anyway.)
I don't like when daughters are named after their mothers for much of the same reason. I don't like children named after other people much at all. I just want children to have their own identities.
Obviously I had a lot more feelings on that than I realized.
--☆--
Evgeniy • Vyvyan • Dashiell • Brooklyn • Sebastian • James • Nikita • Silviu • Hadley • Caius
Natalia • Viviana • Gratiana • Eugenia • Maximiliana • Anemona • Valentyna • Daciana • Feodosia • Harmony
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