Would you name your child after a family member even if you didn't like the name?

The short answer is 'NO' (and the long answer is 'NOOOOOOOOOOO') This is your kid (presumably) you (and they) are the ones who have to live with it, don't try and please someone else, it sets a dangerous precedent, after all, you won't be pressured by them as to how you raise your child, why make a rod for your own back.

This sounds bad, but I wouldn't, naming somebody else doesn't show your honour to a person. Loving and abiding by them does. I think the person would know that. If you really wanted to do it, you could find a name that sounded like the name. But if I didn't like the name then I wouldn't, luckily I like my parents names so I would perhaps make them the middle name! :)

Of course not - I would never be pressured into naming my child something I don't even like. I loved my grandmother, but there is no way I was going to include "Thelma" in my child's name. That being said, they made that choice. Whether or not is flows is up to them. You only get to name a child once, so you may as well be able to stand by it.

Of course not - I would never be pressured into naming my child something I don't even like. I loved my grandmother, but there is no way I was going to include "Thelma" in my child's name. That being said, they made that choice. Whether or not is flows is up to them. You only get to name a child once, so you may as well be able to stand by it.

This sounds bad, but I wouldn't, naming somebody else doesn't show your honour to a person. Loving and abiding by them does. I think the person would know that. If you really wanted to do it, you could find a name that sounded like the name. But if I didn't like the name then I wouldn't, luckily I like my parents names so I would perhaps make them the middle name! :)

No. If I married and it was tradition in my husbands family to have a certain name I would turn round and say this. "I'm pushing him out of my vagina, I get to pick his name!"

I would only name my child after a family member if I liked the name. My son's will all have family names but my daughter's won't because I don't like any of the female family names in my family. What did she name her baby?

If you really wanted to honor a person, why not try to find a name with a similar meaning, or one that sounds similar? I read a question on Nameberry the other day with the same problem, Jasper Silas, Jasper Raymond Robert or Jasper Robert Raymond, or Jasper Silas Raymond Robert?

I think there are other ways of telling the relative/friend that the are important to you. I DEFIANTLY wouldn't name a baby after a celebrity.