Bruno

Discussion (3) ¬

1. 
   korthmat

   November 16, 2010 at 7:22 pm | #

   …and that would be why we made a point of not selecting the names of any relatives when naming my kids.

   I did accidentally get one (I had a great aunt named Catherine, which is my daughter’s middle name), but as she’s been dead for quite a while, nobody noticed. :)
2. 
   Jeffrey Nonken

   November 23, 2010 at 4:37 pm | #

   We’ve named our kids after dead relatives, but it was less to define the kids than it was to honor the relatives. One great-grandparent from each side, used as first and middle respectively.

   Each of our children is her own person.

   I still sometimes (almost) wish we’d had a boy. I think “Gordon Matthias” would have been an awesome name.
3. 
   Kona

   April 9, 2015 at 10:44 am | #

   I share your antipathy to the notion of hereditary “value”. We may inherit physical characteristics, but nor moral or character ones. I have seen too much difference between even siblings in the same household to believe our ancestors can influence our personality or destiny.