Would you ever name your child after a friend (non-family member)?

Contrary to popular belief, friends aren't always forever. I've had a best friend for over 6 years and another for over 8 years who ended up turning on me and leaving my life for good, even though they used to be the dearest people to me. At one point (if I were having kids then) I probably would have honored them by using their name, but I would regret having that reminder on my child forever after they left. It's kind of like getting a partner's name tattooed on you, it's not something I would do just to be on the safe side. I don't see anything wrong with other's doing it though, I just haven't been so lucky with good friends.

I don't see why I wouldn't if they were someone who has been my really close friend for quite some time, someone as close as that would basically be like a family member to me anyways! If I did use part of their name as part of my child's name, I'd probably use it as my child's middle name. I'm sure the friend would feel very honored, I don't even know if I could explain the feeling I'd get if somebody honored either my first or middle name in their child's name.

probably not. especially because i'm so young, i don't know if they will still be my friends in the future, so i wouldn't want to name my child after them unless i'm sure they still would be. i would definitely consider naming my child after a family member though :)

Names are (typically) very permanent things. So the way I think of it they're kind of like tattoos and the advice for tattoos is 'don't get any one's name unless they're dead.' To me family is the only exception to this rule. I have fallen rather brutally out of favor with people I once promised would be a bridesmaid; but no matter what, through all the sh#t that I go through with my family, I always will love them. My cousin named her first child after her best friend who passed away in a car crash, which I think is fine and perfectly honorable. But with living people things can get messy, my friend's sister name her child after her best friend and when that friend had a baby she didn't return the sentiment and it caused a lot of drama. There was a "break up" and a legal name change involved... So I'm very unlikely to use the names of any one less than twenty years older than me, and especially not unless they're related to me. Hope this helps :)

If I like there name and then friend, then yes I might actually use it. As long as the friend was okay with it and was a true friend. answer mine! http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiRB0ggb1n94a5YRfL9fWO6vDH1G;_ylv=3?qid=20121229174313AAcwQsu

I would say it's not impossible. I would never close the door to that idea.

I think that if you have a close, lifelong friend, or a friend who has changed your life and helped you in some way, or a friend who passed away, then it would be lovely to honour them with a baby name. For me personally though, the sad fact is that I don't have many close friends. My friends can be great for fun and laughs, but they're not the people I turn to for emotional support. Countless people who I once considered to be close friends have let me down. In my second year of uni I moved in with my two best friends - now, two years on, none of us speak to each other. It's my family who've always been there for me, raised me, looked after me, put me first and never let me down. Those are the people I'd be lost without, not my friends. Friends come and go, but family are forever. There are many family members who have inspired me to name a child after them, but I've never felt that connection to a friend. Just by coincidence though, my oldest friend who I've known since I was 2 is named Catherine, which happens to be the middle name I may give to a daughter, after my gran Kathleen. So I suppose it could honour both of them. =)

All three of my daughters have middle names that are after friends :) My two sons have names after book/movie characters that meant something to us so that's not family but I guess it's not friends either haha. I definitely love the idea of naming children after friends though! Names that mean something are always amazing no matter the relation to the person they are after. :)

Yes, I definitely would!