Ole Miss recuitment 2010

[louisianagurl]

Originally Posted by carnation

My daughter's husband thinks she should name their first daughter a "Mary plus" name. I'm going to tell her she needs to be really original with that middle name. (Suggestions?)

I went to Ole Miss. When we had our first daughter, my husband really wanted a double name. I agreed to it, but told him it couldn't be anything common. We used Mary Payton. The problem with this is everyone asks me if it is after Peyton Manning.

[louisianagurl]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Yep, I named the daughter Mary, after both me and her great-grandmother, and my maiden name for her middle. But she goes by a nickname...so none of her friends know her real name!

I am also a believer that a true double name is two words for the technical first name. My daughter's first name is the double name and she has a separate middle name. Of course, I also have a hang up about calling kids by the first name you gave them. If you really love that name enough that you want to call them by it, then make it their first name . I understand why people do it sometimes, but it's my hang up for my own kids.

[Titchou]

I'm with you...name the kid what you are going to call it. And leave it at that. If he/she changes it late, so be it. But keep calling them the one you gave them!

[ellebud]

Thanks AzTheta! I love this thread because it shows the diversity that is America. There are a LOT of kids here who are of Persian descent. Last names like: Revzanipour, Hakimianpour, Farokh are common. Farokh equals Fair, Far...Fairy? Hakiampous has been shortened to Hakim...And Revie....don't know

So, when I was a kid there were two doctors here in Los Angeles, one a proctologist. Their last name? Tush.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by louisianagurl

I am also a believer that a true double name is two words for the technical first name. My daughter's first name is the double name and she has a separate middle name. Of course, I also have a hang up about calling kids by the first name you gave them. If you really love that name enough that you want to call them by it, then make it their first name . I understand why people do it sometimes, but it's my hang up for my own kids.

i can speak from experience on this topic. my husband hates his middle name, so he did not want our son to be "the third", but he did want our son to have the same initials as his. coincidentally, the name we wanted for our son began with my husbands middle initial, so that worked out. however, calling him by his middle name, while having a different first name has proven to complicate matters -at school, at the doctors or dentist(especially if husband and son see the same doctor/dentist). i would never have a child go by their middle name again.

[Mevara]

My aunt calls her oldest son by his middle name because father and son have the same first name. They wanted to have a "junior", but they call him by his middle name to make it easier to tell who they are referring to.

[ms_gwyn]

How about

Mary Helen? I love that name...of course, its my mom's name so I'm bias....

[louisianagurl]

Originally Posted by Mevara

My aunt calls her oldest son by his middle name because father and son have the same first name. They wanted to have a "junior", but they call him by his middle name to make it easier to tell who they are referring to.

This would be one of those situations that I would understand why someone would do it.

[carnation]

I get this. My oldest son is one of many in both families who have the same first name and surely the family has used every nickname possible of that name. It's been confusing for years, especially at family get-togethers, and we probably should've called him by his middle name.

[xibair]

Originally Posted by ms_gwyn

How about Mary Helen? I love that name...of course, its my mom's name so I'm bias....

OMG That's my name. I have not seen anyone else named this.

But, I hate it because growing up everyone would tease me as Mary Ellen from the Waltons. OR I would be called Helen Mary. I just grin and bared it.

[ellebud]

Mary Claire is a bit too close to the magazine, Marie Claire, for my taste. I LOVE the name Charlotte...way before Sex and the City.

In my parents' generation the big name was Rose for women. Both sides in fact had multiples.

[atrianglepi]

I'll throw my name into consideration. Mary Marguerite and no I am not Catholic. Mary is after my mother's favorite aunt Mary Louise. Marguerite was my paternal grandmother. Mary was a very common name when I was growing up, so we had many Mary's in my chapter. All we Mary's went by nicknames. One Mary was introducing herself on pledge night to the chapter. She had a very unique last name and someone told her to say it in slow motion. She was hence forth known as Mary Slo-Mo.

[33girl]

My dad's middle name was his mother's maiden name. So according to this thread, my dad was a southern belle. Who'd a thunk it?

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by 33girl

My dad's middle name was his mother's maiden name. So according to this thread, my dad was a southern belle. Who'd a thunk it?

Ditto for my brother, whose middle name is our mother's maiden name. Unfortunately, he does not bear any resemblance in any way, shape or form to anything southern, despite being born in TN (but not raised there). More's the pity.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by carnation

I get this. My oldest son is one of many in both families who have the same first name and surely the family has used every nickname possible of that name. It's been confusing for years, especially at family get-togethers, and we probably should've called him by his middle name.

There is a William and a John in every generation of my family (on one side) as far back as we've traced. Also, male or female, the mother's maiden name is somebody's middle name. This is one of bigger reasons I'm against the companies that use "what's your mother's maiden name?" as a security code!