The goal behind this question is to try to see how your family's naming style differs from/influences your own with your kids.
I definitely like to use family names, esp. w/ boys (though John Tyler and David are the only concrete ones I have right now).
My Parents and all of my siblings were somehow named after a relative.
>Donna Sue: from Don (grandpa's first name) and Sue (grandma's middle name)
>Walter Dan, Jr.: from, of course, his father
>John Victor: John and Victor are two of our uncles
>I was named after my great-grandma Sadie, and Elizabeth came from "Marion Elizabeth"
>William Daniel: William from a great-grand pa; Daniel half-way from my dad Dad, half-way just liked it
>Margaret Ann: after an aunt
It wasn't until I filled out my own question that I realised JUST HOW MUCH we passed down names! I guess that where I get my taste for old-fashioned names...
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