Family Traditions

Does anyone else have any family traditions?
In my family our first name is Irish or Celtic (due to heritage) and our middle name isn’t. But, to make things even more confusing, we use our non-irish name as our first name.

My name is [name_f]Nialla[/name_f] [name_u]Eden[/name_u] but I go by [name_u]Eden[/name_u] or [name_f]Edie[/name_f], for example, whilst my siblings are [name_f]Niamh[/name_f] [name_f]Cecily[/name_f], [name_m]Calhoun[/name_m] [name_m]Ewan[/name_m], [name_f]Kady[/name_f] [name_u]Larkin[/name_u] [name_f]May[/name_f] & [name_f]Caoimhe[/name_f] [name_f]Rosalind[/name_f] but go by [name_f]Cecily[/name_f], [name_m]Ewan[/name_m], [name_f]May[/name_f] and [name_f]Rosalind[/name_f].

If you have a family tradition, will you follow it with your children? :slight_smile:

I really don’t. Most names are Spanish or Italian.
It used to be a tradition on my father’s side to name the eldest son [name_m]Jose[/name_m], but my grandma refused to.
There are names like [name_f]Elena[/name_f], [name_m]Jose[/name_m] and [name_f]Montserrat[/name_f] that repeat a lot in my tree.

No real traditions, just some names that are usually repeated every generation. Although no one is very concerned about making sure it happens, I think its more of a coincidence than tradition.

In someways I love having the tradition as it ‘knits’ us all together and feels lovely, but sometimes it gets confusing as to wether people call me [name_u]Eden[/name_u] or [name_f]Nialla[/name_f]. I think I’ll probably be continuing with the tradition!

Neither side of my family really has any traditions; I think most just picked what names they liked. My grandparents named my dad after my grandpa, but it stopped at him b/c my dad didn’t went to have a kid that would be the third. I think the only one who has continued a tradition is my aunt. My grandma, aunt, and niece all have the same middle name.

I am currently pregnant with baby number two so haven’t started any traditions of my own, but have thought about it. My daughter’s first name is Latin, middle is Welsh, and baby number two’s first name is going to be Welsh. I’ve thought about whatever origins his middle name is going to be, also being the same origins for eventual baby number three’s first name etc, but not sure yet. So as an example: 1-Latin+Welsh, 2-Welsh+Greek, 3-Greek+Slavic, 4-Slavic+Nordic(just as an example).

We don’t have traditions necessarily, but my sister and I both have kind of heavenly Latin middle names. (Mine is [name_f]Aurora[/name_f], hers is [name_f]Celeste[/name_f].) Not sure if that was intentional. There aren’t many family names on either side, but [name_u]James[/name_u] is one that I’ll most likely be using.

I think I really just read into mini traditions more than they actually really exist, lol. All my siblings have a name that is used in that form in an English Bible ([name_m]John[/name_m], [name_f]Rebecca[/name_f], [name_f]Ruth[/name_f]), and both my grandmothers passed their FNs down to their daughters as MNs ([name_f]Ruth[/name_f] [name_f]Mae[/name_f] to [name_f]Jacquelyn[/name_f] [name_f]Ruth[/name_f]; [name_f]Arlene[/name_f] [name_f]Grace[/name_f] to [name_f]Karen[/name_f] [name_f]Arlene[/name_f]). There are a LOT of Johns, but I’m not sure that’s a tradition so much as being boring. :slight_smile: My great-grandpa was [name_m]John[/name_m] [name_m]Russel[/name_m], and he had twin boys, and split up the names ([name_m]John[/name_m] [name_m]Robert[/name_m] and [name_m]Jeremiah[/name_m] [name_m]Russel[/name_m]–[name_m]Jack[/name_m] and [name_u]Jerry[/name_u]). Then my dad was [name_m]John[/name_m] [name_m]Robert[/name_m], II, after his father, and my brother is [name_m]John[/name_m] [name_m]Robert[/name_m], III, after our father. My dad has a first cousin named [name_m]John[/name_m] [name_m]Allen[/name_m], who has a [name_m]John[/name_m] [name_m]Allen[/name_m] [name_m]Jr[/name_m]. My dad’s other cousin married a [name_m]Johnny[/name_m], but since he married into the family, I suppose that can’t be helped. :slight_smile: There’s a lot of inadvertent naming doubles, too–two of my grandma’s sisters are [name_f]Patricia[/name_f] [name_f]Marie[/name_f] and [name_f]Wanda[/name_f] [name_f]Marie[/name_f]; my uncle is [name_m]Bruce[/name_m] [name_u]Ashley[/name_u] and his biological brother is [name_u]Ashley[/name_u] [name_m]Bruce[/name_m] (and I’m [name_u]Ashley[/name_u] [name_f]Marie[/name_f]! I wasn’t supposed to be named after either of them, but I still got the names); and I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but there’s at leaest six people named after my grandmother, [name_f]Ruth[/name_f] [name_f]Mae[/name_f]–[name_f]Jacquelyn[/name_f] [name_f]Ruth[/name_f], Jarylynn [name_f]Ruth[/name_f], [name_f]Alaina[/name_f] [name_f]Mae[/name_f], [name_f]Jenna[/name_f] [name_f]Mae[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f] [name_f]Mae[/name_f], [name_f]Natalie[/name_f] [name_f]Ruth[/name_f], etc. I think my family just recycles names, for whatever reason. There’s a lot of “R” alliteration with our surname, too. If anything, that’s the one I think I’d keep up–it just feels rather homey, and if I honor by initials, it’s very easy to do. I wouldn’t use [name_m]John[/name_m] up front, but I would use [name_m]Jack[/name_m], and I do have [name_m]John[/name_m] as a MN in my [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] combo.