Honoring Family

Girl Names
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With my second girl I would very much like to honor two very important people to me. My dad, who died when I was 8 years old, and my maternal grandmother, who died when I was 18. My dad was my hero, my security blanket, and my rock. I’ve never met a man who can measure up to him (before you think I’m being cold to my SO, I have none-I am doing this all on my own) and my Grandma was one of those amazing, strong women you meet maybe once in a lifetime. I always thought she was like water. Willing to adapt and change. She was funny and loving. She was strong. Not in a loud in your face way, but in a quiet, gentle, enduring way.

However, as much as I love these two people I don’t necessarily love or want to recycle their names (plus, my brother is already named after my dad anyway) so I’d like to honor them another way. My dad’s name was [name_m]Stephen[/name_m] [name_m]Dwayne[/name_m] (he mostly went my [name_m]Steve[/name_m] and, I’m given to understand when he was younger, [name_u]Stevie[/name_u]) and my grandmother was [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_u]Jean[/name_u] (she always went by [name_u]Jean[/name_u]). After some talking back and forth over a friend who is having a similar situation trying to honor both her mom and her dad in her daughter’s name, I came up with [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] [name_f]Jayne[/name_f]. [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] sounds a little bit like [name_f]Helen[/name_f] to me. Maybe it’s the similar ending, but also I think they have a similar aura. Plus, [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] has [name_f]Eve[/name_f] in it (as in [name_m]Steve[/name_m]) and gives the adorable nn [name_f]Evie[/name_f] or [name_f]Eve[/name_f], similar to my dad’s [name_m]Steve[/name_m] or [name_u]Stevie[/name_u]. [name_f]Jayne[/name_f] sounds very similar to [name_u]Jean[/name_u] and the spelling puts it very close to [name_m]Dwayne[/name_m]. It’s sort of an unconventional way to honor them and maybe no one else would know that’s who she was named for but I would know and she would know.

What do you think?

[name_m]Stephen[/name_m] [name_m]Dwayne[/name_m] ----> [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_u]Jean[/name_u] ----> [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] [name_f]Jayne[/name_f]

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I think its a beautiful choice! I love when people honor family in other ways than just recycling the name. I think its also beautiful that your daughters name will mean something along the lines of “God granted wish for a child” since [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] meas “wished for a child” and [name_f]Jayne[/name_f] mean “Gods greatest gift.” I think she’ll feel very special growing up knowing she was named after two such wonderful people.

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I think [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] [name_f]Jayne[/name_f] is lovely. Most people wouldn’t know your child was named in honor of someone anyway, unless you told them, so I think it’s fine for it to be a sort of round-about way.

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I also think [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] [name_f]Jayne[/name_f] is lovely. It’s sort of a different way to honor family members but then again one usually has to to be creative when passing on names or it just gets repetitive. Best of luck!

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I agree that [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] [name_f]Jayne[/name_f] is a great name with even greater significance! Definitely go for it. Good luck!