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HelpRe: What do honoring names mean to you? :)
in reply to a message by Llewella
Honoring is done on both sides of my family. On my husband's side saints names are also very important.
My daughter's name does an incredible amount of honoring. Her first name, Miriam, was chosen for a multitude of reasons. My dad is a minister and I always wanted to use a Old Testament name. She has two middle names, Elizabeth and Mae. My middle name is Elizabeth and my husband wanted to use it to honor me. It's also the name of her godmother, my husband's sister. Mae was the name of my husband's grandmother. Elizabeth also referred to Elizabeth Ann Seton, making sure that my daughter is also named after a saint.
I love the idea of my daughter's name having so much history and weight. She's named after some pretty cool women, in fact my husband will often bemoan the fact that he named his daughter after the three most stubborn women he knows. It also has a lot of history to it, with Miriam being used for thousands of years.
The only thing about honoring I don't like it when people go to the family tree and find names that they like, use them, and then claim it's honoring. My cousin did this, he chose Josephine after our great grandmother. She was not a particularly nice or loving person, and none of us have any memories of her at all. If I remember correctly she would have died in the 50s or 60s, well before we were all born. ( my grandfather was the youngest of seven and was born in 1915)
My daughter's name does an incredible amount of honoring. Her first name, Miriam, was chosen for a multitude of reasons. My dad is a minister and I always wanted to use a Old Testament name. She has two middle names, Elizabeth and Mae. My middle name is Elizabeth and my husband wanted to use it to honor me. It's also the name of her godmother, my husband's sister. Mae was the name of my husband's grandmother. Elizabeth also referred to Elizabeth Ann Seton, making sure that my daughter is also named after a saint.
I love the idea of my daughter's name having so much history and weight. She's named after some pretty cool women, in fact my husband will often bemoan the fact that he named his daughter after the three most stubborn women he knows. It also has a lot of history to it, with Miriam being used for thousands of years.
The only thing about honoring I don't like it when people go to the family tree and find names that they like, use them, and then claim it's honoring. My cousin did this, he chose Josephine after our great grandmother. She was not a particularly nice or loving person, and none of us have any memories of her at all. If I remember correctly she would have died in the 50s or 60s, well before we were all born. ( my grandfather was the youngest of seven and was born in 1915)
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