My mother has the same first name as her mother. I don’t at all understand why, she has always just been called by her second name.
I have never met a woman named after her own mother
Submitted 10 months ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Would you call them junior?
moopet@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
My partner has the same name as her mother.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, I’ve never met her.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do middle names count?
Becauae I think all Swedish women have the middle name Anna.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 months ago
obviously no one in your family is named Elizabeth
11111one11111@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree with all the sentiments in this thread about giving a kid their own identity and would never name my kid with my name even tho it could go to either sex depending on spelling. However the exception I would have to this sentiment is when someone names their kid after a deceased loved one. Usually would be the soon to be born kid’s grandparent or great grandparents. So like if someone is best friends with their dad and their dad passes before their grandchild is born the person will name their kid after their late father. I dont think I know any specific person who did this with the first name, but I have seen it a ton with a person’s middle name. I think its sweet and is a nice story to tell a child.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’ve obviously haven’t met every woman.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This got me thinking about how there is no female equivalent of junior or senior
Yermaw@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I always assumed it would just be the same, but now that you mention it I’ve never met a female junior
Acamon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My mother, grandmother and great grandmother all have same name, but used different short forms to differentiate.
helmet91@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Donebrach@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Never have I ever met a family with a shared name.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My family shares 5 names among everybody. 2 for the women, 3 for the men.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I believe every woman is named after their mother. Usually by about 20 years or so.
Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Me wife is a woman with her mother’s first name as her middle name.
And of course my father in law is a fourth generation jr
radix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do middle names count? My grandmother’s first name became my mother’s middle name. Then my sister and her daughter also got that middle name.
sxan@midwest.social 10 months ago
My sister was given my Grandmother’s middle name as her first.
But I don’t think those count. Many men are “Jr.” OP’s right, very few women are “Mom Jr.” What would the suffix be? Junior? Is junior non-gendered? I think of it as a masculine suffix.
Good shower thought.
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
My mother was named after her mother, although she used her middle name. My sister was named after her. We’re white midwesterners in the US.
marito@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My mother’s name is María, so are three of my sisters. Their middle names are different though.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My wife’s g-grandmother was Mary. Her daughters were Mary Margaret, Mary Agnes, Mary Elizabeth, and Mary Alice. Newfies.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are they Irish?
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh yeah.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Newfies are Irish in the same way that Quebecois are French
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know one, but it’s a little complicated. The woman is named Ann, and this is because when she was adopted at birth, the adoptive parents named her after the biological mother, also Ann. So yes and no.
jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 10 months ago
The weirdest combination I’ve ever met was a set of female twins. One was named after their mother. The other had a different first name. Must have been really odd when growing up.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Should have given them both the same first name, and dressed them the same as kids. Taught them to speak together in the same voice. Then used them to committ tax fraud.
nagaram@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yes you have. They’re just better about it.
I’ve met so many mother daughters, including my own mother and grandmother, who just alter their own name a little bit instead of going for a “Junior” type deal.
For instance, my Nana’s name is Elizabeth but goes by beth. My mom is Eliza Beth-Ann but goes by Eliza or Liz.
(Also yes I’m from the south)
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tell me you don’t live in Latin America without telling me you don’t live in Latin America.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not a thing in Brasil.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Damn, I really messed up. Thanks for the heads up.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Good. Let kids have their own identity. I’ve always cringed at the Ebeneezer Gortlegump IV’s of the world.
What I have seen is it is much more common to have the firstborn daughter have a middle name of an ancestor, often grandmother.
Aviandelight@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Can confirm myself, my mother, and my maternal grandmother all have the same middle name. Call it a southern thing I suppose. I killed the tradition by being childess and my younger sister refused to pass it to my niece.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 months ago
Yet I’m sure they exist.
From some random article:
Naming a daughter after a mother isn’t a modern phenomenon; in some cultures, the tradition of matrilineal naming goes back centuries. In Ireland, and several other European countries, it was commonplace to name the first daughter after the maternal grandmother, the second daughter after the paternal grandmother, and the third daughter after the mother.
The practice is also prevalent in several Spanish-speaking countries, where it’s common to carry on both parents’ last names as well.
And then there’s Iceland.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My fiance has the same name AND same birthdate. Has really fucked her up, we had like 10 extra calls essentially calling her the wrong person and asking about her property when we were buying our home.
We get her fucking mail all the time. Like literally same name and dob make life pretty fucking annoying, just stupid.