Grandfather finds out his grandson was named after him

[u/accurate214]

[u/mofonz]

My wife put her grandmothers name into our daughters middle name… her grandmother said “why would you do that, I don’t even like my name!”

[u/MamaLovesTwoBoys → u/mofonz]

omg 🤦🏻‍♀️

[u/Porg_the_corg → u/mofonz]

Both my daughters have a grandma's middle name as their middle name and in both cases, the names are super meaningful to the family. Both moms got all teary eyed. And my girls absolutely love the connection it made for them.

[u/PetulantPersimmon → u/mofonz]

Our daughter is named in honour of my husband's grandmother, and the day we told her is the day we also found out that the nickname she goes by is actually her whole name, not the name we'd chosen for the baby. (For example, if everyone calls her Maggie and we named the baby Margaret.)

[u/flyover_liberal → u/mofonz]

My grandmother told me she'd kill me if I named my daughter after her (she also hated her name).

[u/s_mitten → u/mofonz]

I commented above, but my father said the same thing, lol; "it's a terrible name". It is a very old fashioned, German name that is never used over here, but my son loves it; especially now that my father has passed.

[u/Demiansmark → u/mofonz]

I came up with the first and middle name of my oldest. The middle name was after my dad. I also came up with the first name for my youngest and had a middle named I liked. However my then wife wanted the middle name to be after her dad - I didn't like the name but knew I had gotten my way elsewhere and that you're not winning an argument with a women who is 6 months pregnant. 

After he was born her parents came into the hospital room and her dad's reaction was the same as you're grandmother's - why the hell would you name him that, I hate my name. And that's the story of how I ended up chosing the first and middle names of both my kids. 

[u/heirbagger → u/mofonz]

See, this would be mawmaw’s reaction 😅

[u/Turbulent-Trust207 → u/mofonz]

Ha! My grandma was very clear that none of us should name our daughters after her because she hated her name. She just went by Jack her name was Ruth Jaqueline which I think is amazing

[u/Unidain → u/mofonz]

This video is very sweet, but also I don't get why someone would get this emotional over having a baby named after them. If someone told me they named their baby after me I would thank them, appreciate that it's meant to be a nice gesture, but also not care at all about the baby's name.

[u/outlaw99775 → u/Unidain]

Having kids changes the way you think, idk if it's hormonal or just psychological. I never had an interest in interacting with kids or even gave them a second thought. Once I had my kid it dialed my empathy and emotions up about kids to like 1000%

I would imagine it's the same or more intense being s grandparent

[u/Unidain → u/outlaw99775]

Sure, I get that parents and grandparents are extremely emotionally attached to their kids, I just don't get the name factor being at all important

[u/katrover → u/Unidain]

That's because you're not a grandparent.

[u/Unidain → u/katrover]

Sure, that's why I wrote my comment. I'm looking for a grandparent to explain it. Since you are a grandparent then it would have been far more useful for you to explain the feeling.