Namesake Names: Honoring family and friends
The question of the week: How would you go about honoring a namesake?
In choosing a name, there’s nothing more meaningful than paying tribute to a beloved family member, ancestor or friend. Namesake names can connect your child to her heritage, and convey the essence of a loved one, bestowing their most admirable qualities on your child. Personal heroes of the past or present can form the basis of worthy namesake names as well.
Would you approach this by:
Using the name verbatim as a first name?
Modernizing or modifying it in some way? Changing Mildred to Millicent of Millie, for example? Finding another name with a similar meaning?
Using it as a middle name?
Considering the honoree’s middle or last name if you didn’t love their first?
Would you ever consider making your son a Junior or a II or a III?
Would you use the name of an ancestor you never knew?
Would you consider the name of a personal hero?
So have you honored a namesake in your child’s name–or would you in the future?
Introducing the Nameberry App
- Swipe through thousands of names with your partner
- Names you match on are saved to your shared list
- Get personalized recommendations that learn based on your and your partner's preferences
- Partner with friends and family to find names you all love
- Backed by Nameberry's 20 years of data around name preferences.
Introducing the Nameberry App
- Swipe through thousands of names with your partner
- Names you match on are saved to your shared list
- Get personalized recommendations that learn based on your and your partner's preferences
- Partner with friends and family to find names you all love
- Backed by Nameberry's 20 years of data around name preferences.