Given names

[Standard]

I've got my father's middle name for my given name, and my grandfather's name for my middle name. For our two children my wife and I picked Biblical names for first names, and celtic names for middle names to honour our celtic heritage (she Irish, me Scottish). So our childre became Joshua Rielly, and Elisabeth MacKenzie.

[thescot]

I try never to make sense of illogical things, nor do I try to bring reason to unreason. It's all very confusing, all this naming business.

I wish people would stick to John and Becky and such. All those apostrophes and hyphens just lead me to the state of Confusion. And that's probably where I should live anyway.

Good luck on figuring this out.

[thescot]

OK, here's how we did it.

Both my children--Gabriel and Elizabeth--have biblical names. (You can see them both on the same page in most Bibles.) My son got the Scottish Duncan for a middle name because it was his mother's maiden name. My daughter got Margaret after my mother and her grandmother.

I guess that's all pretty logical. The rest confuses me. Espcially if you get into all the British hyphens and such. Sir Peter Helmsley-Woolsey never quite made sense to me. (I made that name up. I hope there is no such person.)

[meinfs]

I had a friend named Kaka. He's not american though and that explains it. Actually what explains it is that name is from a word that has a very good meaning to it in the country where it comes from.

[Erikm]

First name after my grandfather William and Middle name after Erik estrada. lol
Not sure what my mother was thinking? I guess she was a chips fan!

[The Barry]

I have no idea..

But I think that you have a wonderful and strong name!