Guiseppe is Italian for Joseph, I had an uncle named Pierguiseppe, PeterJoe

First name is after my uncle who passed away when he was 12. It was my father's way of honoring his brothers memory. Middle name, like the rest of my siblings, is a religious name.

Nothing cool like "Apple" or "Pilot Inspektor".

My parents looked through the bible until they found two names that they liked. Then they flipped a coin to decide which would be first name or middle name. There were no family issues involved in the naming; my father had been named after _his_ father, and I think he'd had enough of all that.

My mother broke tradition, women in her family had the middle name Fyan including her. She hated it and gave me a good Catholic name, middle name Maria. The first name is a good Catholic one too. Now we're all Methodist ;)

I would love to hear some opinions on this..

I really dislike my last name. It can be the butt of many jokes. I would love to take my mother's maiden name, which I think sounds very pretty - and would also give me the chance to carry on my mother & grandmother's name (whom I adore very much). But my father died when I was 10 - do you think it's disrespectful to change my last name - his last name - to my mum's maiden name? Shouldn't I be proud of my last name, of my father? If I changed my name, would people think I'm being disrespectful? I don't plan on changing my last name when I get married, so this is a name I would carry for the rest of my life.

Thanks for listening,

Tropez

I come from a Catholic family, so my sister and I both have biblical names. I'm the oldest, and I was supposed to be named after my mother's mother (Mary) but my mom in some sort of semi-rebellious fit named me Rebecca after a character in a book. My middle name is my father's mother's name and also a great-aunt on my mom's side. When my sister was born, she got the name Mary to satisfy my grandmother. The only other "Rebecca" I'm aware of in my family was a 16-year-old great-great-great-great aunt who died when the oven exploded when she was baking a cake for a school fair. I was really careful around the oven the year I was 16. :eek:

And, Tropez, I have a similar dilemma about my last name. My father died when I was 13, and I like neither the name nor his family. My mother's maiden name is not nice-sounding, or I would have changed it a long time ago. I think, yes, it is disrespectful in a way to change your name, but he won't know about it anyway and you should do it if you want to. Who cares what other people think. It doesn't change whether or not you loved your father and it is also good to carry on a name from the other side of your family too, right?

My first name is my mother's mother's first name, my middle name is my father's mother's maiden name, and my maiden last name is my father's family's last name.

My little brother has my father's father's first name, my mother's father's last name for his middle name, and my father's name for his last name.

My other little brother has my mother's mother's brother's first name, TWO middle names (that of my mother's mother's mother and my mother's mother's mother's mother), and my father's last name.

My dad has his mother's brother's first name, the same middle name as me, and his father's last name.

My mom got her first name because my grandma liked the way it sounded. Her middle name is horrid, however... who gives their kid "Mildred" for a middle name? :confused:

I think I'll feel bad if I don't give my future kids at least one family name :P

My first name is in Greek mythology and means "most holy" and i have two last names. It's a pain sometimes, because some people think one of my last name's is my middle name.

My first name is that of my mother's favorite uncle.
The interesting thing is that it's his surname, not his given name.
It is also my uncle's middle name.

This means that the name has gone from a last name, to a middle name, to a given name over three generations, which I find interesting.

I still have relatives with the same surname as my given name, but they're all still in Ireland.

My daughter's given name is the same as my maternal grandmother, Evelyn.
Her middle name is Clare, named for my wife's paternal grandmother. We thought this tied her nicely to both families.


Cheers,
B.

I'm in the same boat. My grandfather on my father's side isn't his biological father. Before she died, my grandmother told my father his biological father's name, but he hasn't shared it with the rest of the family, so, I carry a last name to a man I wasn't technically related to. :(

On my mother's side, however, the names Grant and Joseph go back several generations in various forms to fishing village in what was Prussia around 1588. Only one child of my grandfather's (he had 5 kids) has had children and she (my mother) compromised with my father over mine and my sister's name.

The name Elizabeth has been around a few generations on my father's side, but that's following the maternal line of that side of the family since my father was illegitimate.

Gosh, that was confusing, huh? :lol:

I was named after a song...so no real significance there. My (future) kids, though, will be named after family members.

my first name was off the cuff, but the middle is my father's father, who died 2 months to the day before I was born. It's funny, but I was embarrassed of my middle name when I was a kid, but grew into it. Now I use it fairly often whenever there is a fear of being mixed up with the hundreds of people with the same first and last name. I really like it since it's kinda old school.

My first two names Benjamin and David stem from family.

The first, Benjamin was the christian name of my grandfather's father, who I am named after. He in turn, was named after one of our family members who was 23rd president (an great^nth uncle of mine). Going further back, that president, Benjamin, was named after his grandfather's father, who was Benjamin Harrison V, father of William Henry Harrison the 9th president. My christian name and surname have been on this continent predating the Revolutionary war by over 75 years. I was not only named after my grandfather, but for the direct translation of my name from Hebrew which means (depending on which translation) "son of my right hand" or "most beloved son."

My middle name, David, is also from Hebrew, but is mine because of a family tradition of all my family bearing my last name having the letter D begin their middle names. David, Duane, Dwight, Daye, Dayle, among others. I'm truly happy my parents passed on giving me my mother's maiden name as my middle name. While I appreciate my Polish heritage, David is quite a bit easier to spell ;)

I'm a first son but i don't think that we fall in any of those precise catagories. One of my two middle names is William which was a great great great grandad if i remember properly. I have a brother named sam (3rd son) and his name comes from my great grandad. And my littlest bro (4th son) has my mothers maden name as a middle name.

Our other names are just Christian names in general. There are five of use and we each have 2 middle names so many have been used though!

My name is Michael, after the biblical character. In fact, every male for many many generations has been named after a bible character.

My middle name has been the same as all my male elders for 4 generations, and is the name of my great great grandfather.

My last name was changed from the traditional family name 3 generations ago. I'm of Russian heritage, and when my family immigrated to Canada, there apparently was some distaste for Russians, so my grandfather changed his last name.

And I wish I could trace my entire family tree. There are many family members trying to do this, but it is a daunting task, and there are clouds of secrecy in my familys past where whole chunks of the tree have been wiped out and nobody talks of it.

Can someone give me advice please :(

My first name was my father's middle name, and means 'Beloved'.
My middle name was the first name of both my grandfathers, and means 'Noble'.
My last name matches the family name of the weapons & armor makers for Nazi Germany to the letter.

So yes, I think my name has some significance to it.

My advice is this: it is you who will have to live with this name for the rest of your life. Do you really think your father would desire your unhappiness just so you keep his last name? My brother plans on changing his last name, not because he dislikes his last name but because the name he wants to change it to is something he closely identifies with. Only you can make this choice, but in the end remember it is you who will have to live with your choice.

All the oldest male member of the family gets the middle name "stewart"

My grandfather was the oldest of his sibling, so he got it
My father was the second oldest, but he was still the oldest male sibling, so he got it
I'm the oldest of my sibling, so I got it
My first born son will get it
His first born son will get it
So on so forth

only child, same name as my father making me a Jr. Has no significane to his fathers name. Both names are biblical

My mom gave me her younger sisters middle name for my middle name. And that same younger sister (my aunt) did the same thing with her youngest daughters middle name, giving her my mothers middle name. What's really strange is I look like my aunt (we're the only 2 redheads in the family), and my cousin looks more like my mom than I do.

Mostly it's a middle name swap that seems to happen in my family. First names are usually chosen at will.

I don't know if I'll name any of my kids that way, should I have any someday.

When my mother was pregnant with me, she had planned on calling me Jeremy. 4 days before I was born, my aunt and uncle had their baby, who they named Jeremy. He lived less than 1 day, and died from complications with a premature birth. I was also born a bit early, and the doctor thought I would have the same type of problems, but I didn't. They didn't want to call me Jeremy, as it would be hard on my aunt and uncle, so they found a new name that fit the circumstances of my birth.

Sean, meaning "God is gracious."

Thank you for your advice, Kalnaur

My first name (Martin) is my maternal grandmother's last name. I respect it, and actually like it in writing, but I am thinking of going by my middle name, which is my father's name, when I get into the business world.

Any other Martin's out there have problems introducing themselves in a way that doesn't make you sound like you're saying 'Mark'?

I'm very proud of my last name, which is VERY uncommon (like...less than 1000 ppl in the US), but only six letters, distinctly American, and easily pronounceable. :)


One other note: On my father's side, the first born girls, going back for many generations, would alternate the names Mary Virginia and Virginia Mary.

Scandinavians named their offspring this way as well. Family was very important and thus they wanted to make it clear who descended from who. So.. if Valdemar had a son called Sven he would be known as Sven Valdemarssøn (Valdemar's søn=son) and if he had a daughter by the name of Freja she would be known as Freja Valdemarsdatter (Valdemar's datter=daughter). If Sven had a son called Bjørn he would be known as Bjørn Svenssøn etc. But! If Freja had a son called Tjalfe he wouldn't be known as Tjalfe Frejassøn. It was only men who were allowed to pass on his name to his offspring so Frejas children would be named after her husband instead.

The vikings continued this usage of names from around the year 800 until around 1536 where people began to use permanent last names. The "ø" in "søn" was slowly replaced with an "o" or an "e" over the years...

Fascinating isn't it?! :crazy:

Sometimes the parents name their kids after their grandparents but it's not that common here in Denmark. I'd say that 95% of our names are not related to any relatives at all but are chosen simply because the parents like the name. That is the case with my name - they gave me the name Nancy simply because they loved it. I did, however, get my middlename from my father who had gotten it from his grandfather. My family lineage will be known by this middlename in our family instead of our last name.

My last name is Pedersen so that means that I descended from a man named Peder. I'd like to study my genealogical tree some time and see if I can track him down :D

My Story, after Internment of Japanese in WWII an American named James helped relocate thousands of Japanese American families to the west Coast including my Mothers Family. That man was later knighted and is to my knowledge the only American only to be knighted in Japan.
My mother met my father in college and they started dating. They got married, had my brother. It was discovered in their goings on the Knight helped relocate my mothers family, so my middle name is named after my 3rd cousin or so.

My Brother named after my dad, middle name after my dads grandfather.

All the kids have the same first letter in each family.

Whose pattern is that? I've continued my father's geanology research (to the 1400s), and it's nothing like that.

My first name was pulled out of the air. My first middle name is to honour my uncle and Maternal Grandfather and my second middle name honours my maternal step-Grandfather. Thus you end up with a PHD(Paul Harry Donald) for my initials :P

Hadn't thought about this in awhile, till I clicked on this thread. Nice memories.

My first name is my grandfathers (fathers) middle name.

My middle name is my grandfathers (mothers) middle name.

I really kinda like it too, has a nice Irish ring to it.







Also, I named my cat after Larry, from the Three Stooges! :D

all the men in my family are named after ancient greek warriors

My first name is my paternal aunt's (father's favorite sister) first name.

My middle name is my maternal grandmother's middle name.

I disliked them both when I was younger as they are very old fashioned, but have grown to somewhat like my first name as I matured. I'd still like to change my middle name to Maria because I've always liked that name, and it would honor someone of special significance in my life.

My first name is my father's father's name, one of my middle names is my father's name, and my brother's middle name is my mother's father's name.

I was named for my father, and my grand mothers uncle.

It means Strong Protector,
and as a few of my Ex's have seen first hand I take it very very seriously

my name=name of a God in the mahabharat...also means 'ray of sunshine'

It's only significant when considered in combination with a number of outstanding arrest warrants. But I don't mind. They're for places I don't go to anymore ;-)

Named after my passed away grandfather (before I was born) And my middle name is my fathers Italian first name. It just so happens I have a jewish first name and an italian middle and last name.

I am the first son of a first son so I have the same name as my dad and my grandfather and am the 3rd. My grandfather was not the first son and was in fact a ways down the line of the kids in his family so my great-grandfather was having some problems coming up with names by then. Hence my middle name is the last name of the doctor that actually delivered my grandfather.

James, disciple of Jesus.

...I think...