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Thanks for sharing!
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It was so interesting hearing all of your traditions and thoughts on honoring names :)Some of my family uses honoring names. E.g., My dad was named after his dad and my cousin was named after his dad. This practice can be quite common in the Czech Republic (because of this, I joke that's why there are only like 20 boy names in the language lol). Meanwhile, I grew up for the most part in America, but still have half my family overseas. Those direct father/son, mother/daughter names don't sit well with me, mostly because I know lots of people named after their parents who are totally estranged from them now. I do think, however, that middle names, sometimes first names are a great way to honor someone who means a lot of you and has very strong emotional ties. Or even, just a name that you feel ties to certain values. So this thread made me realize that while I tend to shy away from the idea of naming someone after a family member, there are certain names of friends or people I greatly admire that I think would make great honoring names, like Judith (Butler) or Simone (de Beauvoir). Because I both like those names themselves and have a lot of respect for those theorists and their contributions. On that note, I'm not planning on having children any time soon, but I do really like thinking about the intentionality of names and learning about people's stories and how they got their name :)

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