It’s not really for me, I don’t really get why you would want to name a child after yourself, instead of the name of a loved one, or just a name that you really love the sound of.
Some of your examples are fine (Alistair - Addison, Addison - Sonny) but I feel like the rest of them would just get really confusing, assuming that the child and the father would live in the same house. When someone calls out “Eagan!” it can very easily be misheard as Keagan, and vice versa. It’s the same with Brice - Bruce, Niall - Neil, almost all of your examples, really, would get constantly misheard as one another. People would probably also mix the names up, and in many cases it also locks the kid into not being able to use an otherwise very intuitive nickname (what if Harrison wants to be nicknamed Harry, or Luca to be nicknamed Luke, but they can’t because it’s their father’s name?) It just seems unnecessarily confusing and inconvenient to me.
I think it depends on the names in question. [name_f]Addison[/name_f] - Sonny; absolutely. [name_m]Harry[/name_m] - [name_m]Harrison[/name_m] / [name_m]Francis[/name_m] - [name_f]Frankie[/name_f] / [name_m]Eagan[/name_m] - [name_m]Keagan[/name_m] are too close IMO.
I know. [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] who’s son goes by [name_m]Tommy[/name_m] & if I’m honest it drives me a little nuts especially as [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] also shortens his name to Tom/Tommy on occasion.
I’d much rather see a father honoured by a stand alone variation (again depending on what it is, eg. [name_m]William[/name_m] - [name_m]Billy[/name_m] / [name_m]James[/name_m] - [name_m]Jim[/name_m] etc.) or a name with the same letter or meaning.
Not something I’d personally do, but then I don’t love super close honours in general. however, I like this idea a lot better than giving a baby the father’s name directly - it’s an obvious link and connection between them, but a name of their own too. Objectively too, there are plenty of kids who are juniors, so I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it
Of your examples, I like some more than others. These ones work best for me:
Addison // Sonny
Alistair // Addison
Frankie // Francis (so long as Francis isn’t Frank/Frankie too)
Some of the others are a bit too close - so I’d probably consider Henry, Ari, or Hayes for a Harry, Saul or Sully for Samuel, Bruno for Bruce etc.
I agree with the previous posters that it can be cute, but easily becomes confusing or impractical if they are too close.
Additionally, with examples like Harry/Harrison or Samuel/Samson it would matter (for me) who’s who. If Sam’s son is [name_m]Samson[/name_m] it makes more sense than if Samson’s son is Sam(uel).
It’s not something I personally like, but for some names it could work in theory. I think [name_m]Francis[/name_m] and [name_f]Frankie[/name_f] is nice for a father-son duo. The names that sound very similar seem confusing and maybe a bit weird to me, but I know some families that choose to do something like this or exactely the same names and that worked perfectly fine for them.
I guess it depends on my significant other’s name (obviously I don’t have one currently lol) and how similar the name is (and if I liked said name). I would want to honor my husband just as much as any other family member I love, but I would also want my children to have their own identities. If it could be something like Beau instead of Kevin (same meaning) I would be ok with it, but my dad and brother have the same full names and it always seemed rather uninventive to me. I would much rather move the honor name to the MN spot and avoid any confusion. Only exception might be if I married a man who had a name similar to my favorite (for example, married a Casey, have loved Caspar for ages and ages, in which case I would almost definitely make sure they had different nns they could go by, like Case and Cappy or whatever).
It depends on the name, the person and the situation. Personally I wouldn’t have minded naming one of our sons a name that’s similar to my husband’s, but that’s also because I like his name. But that’s not something my husband would ever want, so it didn’t really come up.
I grew up in a family (father’s side) where a lot of the male family members had a similar sounding name, it’s like a tradition. It never felt weird to me, because I was so used to it. But I can see how it can be confusing.
I love this idea for boys and there moms too ! [name_f]My[/name_f] name is [name_f]Alana[/name_f] and [name_m]Alan[/name_m] is my sons middle name ( and his dads middle name and his late grandfather name) .
I love when kids have meaningful names !
[name_m]Michael[/name_m] and [name_f]Mikayla[/name_f] or [name_m]Micah[/name_m] / [name_m]Cale[/name_m] / [name_m]Mitch[/name_m]
[name_m]Daniel[/name_m] and [name_f]Daniella[/name_f] / [name_m]Neil[/name_m] / Nelly/ Danica/
[name_m]Lawerence[/name_m] and [name_f]Lauren[/name_f] / [name_f]Wren[/name_f] / [name_m]Larry[/name_m] / [name_m]Lawson[/name_m]
