Is it weird to name babies after animals?

Last week, my cousin had a baby. A couple of weeks before, her horse William died. She called her kid Firstname William after her horse. I've also been thinking about using Zoe as mn for a daughter, after my cat Zoe, who was my best friend for pretty much my whole life and recently died too :(. What do you guys think? Is this weird, or OK (well, if the animal has a "human" name - I pity any kids out there called Fido or Makybe Diva)?

I dont think so....If your pet was really close to you and you loved it alot I understand!
So...yeah!

~Bree

No, I think it's perfectly fine! As long as the pet is no longer around. I knew a guy who had both a dog, and a daughter named Sarah at the same time. Besides being a bit odd, it caused a lot of confusion in coversation.

I plan on naming my future daughter after my beloved pet, Hannah Renee, as well.

In the TV series Frasier, both Frasier and his brother Niles were named after their mother's laboratory rats.

Your question just now reminded me of that.

-- Nephele

arilee_sc wrote:I knew a guy who had both a dog, and a daughter named Sarah at the same time. Besides being a bit odd, it caused a lot of confusion in coversation.

It may not of been his fault. I have a sister named Rose and once my family had a goat named Rose. We didn't name the goat that, she came with the name. She was named after the Rose Bowl Parade, because she was born in January.

I think that it's time for people to stop giving people names to animals. William and Sarah and Rose are people names. I don't think it's weird to name a child the same name or in honor of a pet, except I once had a neighbor whose kid was Richard Jr., but then after their dog died, they started calling this poor toddler Buddy - which had been what they called the dog.

I see a lot of cuckoo names on this site that seem more suited to a dog or a bird, it's when you mix them up, Kate and Max don't seem appropriate for a little baby anymore (too pet-like and probably seem extra-overused due to that), or you feel funny when you introduce your little Sadie and someone says, oh cool, that's my cat's name. I guess that's the trend I find a little uncomfortable - nobody's going to make fun of your dog at school so the freedom is there to go all out and break those rules.

:)

I'm so glad you asked this question:

I've always LOVED the name Moxie but assumed my husband would never allow us to name our child Moxie. So when I got a kitten last August I named her Moxie. I got pregnant in December.

Moxie sadly died at the end of April. When I told my husband that not only was I sad that Moxie died, but also that such a fantastic name got so little use, he said he wouldn't mind a kid named Moxie.

SO. I figured I could never name our kid Moxie since everyone would think it really weird that we named our kid after our cat.

BUT I am so glad to hear people (generally) think it's OK. It's not like we're naming her AFTER the cat, just that the cat had a great name we want to use again....

Of course, you may think this is all a moot point if you hate the name Moxie!!....and our last name is Kelly so that really doesn't work well anyway....

I think its fine, as long as it is a person name that the animal has.