• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    13 hours 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
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      9 hours 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.