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Post by andi9899 on Jun 29, 2016 20:16:54 GMT -5
Oh. And I have 3 cousins named Matthew on my mom's side and one on my dad's side. On my mom's side they are Matt, Big Mother Trucker, and Mateo. On my dad's side he is Matt.
Now I'm starting to feel Greek.
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 29, 2016 20:46:21 GMT -5
Big Mother Trucker? lmfao!!
between the French side and he Portuguese in the extended family on my other side, I probably have 8 Raymonds as uncles, cousins, second cousins. not at all inclusive, but there was a Big Ray (since passed), Little Ray (not his son, another uncle), Ray Ray (who is now 45, but still answers to that from family). his dad was known as Ray <last name> and was the quiet guy that was the life of the party after a couple drinks. he rarely drank, but stories from those few occasions are priceless!
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Post by andi9899 on Jun 29, 2016 20:51:21 GMT -5
Big Mother Trucker? lmfao!! between the French side and he Portuguese in the extended family on my other side, I probably have 8 Raymonds as uncles, cousins, second cousins. not at all inclusive, but there was a Big Ray (since passed), Little Ray (not his son, another uncle), Ray Ray (who is now 45, but still answers to that from family). his dad was known as Ray <last name> and was the quiet guy that was the life of the party after a couple drinks. he rarely drank, but stories from those few occasions are priceless! Big Mother Trucker is a big guy, obviously. My sister made it up many years ago and it stuck. All the cousins call him that. The older people call him Matt or Matthew.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 30, 2016 1:40:13 GMT -5
I went to work for a company where there was another NoName. Made it really confusing as we both had the last name Person. It got boiled down to "Good" NoName and "Bad" NoName. Guess which one I was. The fun one!
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 30, 2016 2:33:22 GMT -5
My father and his father shared the same name Jr/Sr, but his father always went by a nick name, so no problem. Now I have 2 BIL's and a SIL all with the same first name. Depending on who I'm talking to, BIL's are first and last name and SIL is DD's first name. Example: Mark Smith, Mark Jones and Mary's Mark. Or wife's name followed by husband's first name.
Growing up, my best friend's brother was Don. Don married Dawn. They were known as boy Don and Girl Dawn, when people called their home phone. They used to tell funny stories about people calling and just asking for 'Don'. And how they would answer, this is 'Don". Knowing the person wanted their husband/wife.
In school, if more than one person shared the same first name, they were called by their first and last name.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 30, 2016 2:37:17 GMT -5
Hmm, forgot about the time I was dating couple of guys at same time. Came back from lunch one day and boss man said "John called"
Me: Did he leave a number? Boss: No I figured you had it. Me: Did he leave a last name? Boss: Figured you knew it.
I had to explain to him I was dating two Johns!! Kinda sounds like a hooker doesn't it I bet that story got repeated!!!!
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Post by steph08 on Jun 30, 2016 6:43:48 GMT -5
In school, we had two Brandon Smiths on my grade (surprising, since we had less than 100 kk5ds). They were Brandon L and Brandon J - had to use their middle initials. Glad they were different!
We also have a family that has a mom Mary and dad Tony and kids Mary and Tony. They were simply Big and Little.
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Post by finnime on Jun 30, 2016 7:55:19 GMT -5
This thread makes me . My father/brother/nephew officially have the same name. My father went by First Name; my brother by Nickname and my nephew by Middle Name. The same is true for my DFIL, XH and son, although it is my DFIL who goes by the nickname. If a fourth generation is born then the custom is to return to the Firstname. Many years ago by DB was in the merchant marine and was coming in to port near where I lived at the time. USAIR called me about his flight back to his home. They asked, "Do you know a Firstname Middlename Lastname?" Without thinking, I replied, "Yes - I know several." The caller became very cautious and asked if I knew any that would be flying out of Norfolk that week. When we were growing up and DB's friends called, we would hand the phone to DF; I've never thought of DB by any name than Chip. My own DD has my middle name, which turned out to be extremely common for her generation. So in third grade she looked into it and decided to change her name. She did this by telling her teachers and classmates her new name, and writing it on her homework and test papers. The other kids were astonished and impressed. The school office even referred to her by her new name when calling for her on the intercom. Her very excellent teacher wasn't fazed at all, except she did check with me to see if I minded. I didn't, but told DD that I would always call her by her given name. For some reason some other parents were really unhappy with DD for using a different name that year. Their kids wanted to do the same, but were forbidden. I could not understand that reaction.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 30, 2016 8:37:29 GMT -5
My son named his son the same name! Really? So now its big and little, but that will cause problems, my husband goes by the same name even though its his middle name, so 3 of them. Makes no sense to me. You could have had Name, Jr and Trey. I've seen a lot of that. Trey/third... they think they're clever. In laws have a lot of Big/little or just double up the poor kid's name. Like JohnJohn. I'm not fond of either but the double name really makes me bonkers. There's a Wayne and Little Wayne. That one cracks me up. I know a Trey. He was born on March 3rd, 2003. I think that is the only amusing thing his parents have ever done. They are real downers.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 30, 2016 8:47:15 GMT -5
I met my BIL when I was 11 or 12. He is a no nonsense guy. Very practical and mature. He has the same name as his father, but his whole family lives on the other side of the country. Every once in a while we end up in the same place (like weddings) and they refer to him as Jimmy. It sounds ridiculous given his personality. When his Dad had to live with them for a few months, they called him Big Jim, so my BIL could stick with Jim. That was funny too because Big Jim is about 5'5" and shrinking.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 8:55:04 GMT -5
I know a Trey. But it's short for Atreyu.
Dad ad and a few of his friends are the only ones who still add the ie to the shortened form of my name. Not my favorite thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 8:56:53 GMT -5
I also know a husband and wife Joe and Sue who named their girls Joanna and Susanna.
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Post by andi9899 on Jun 30, 2016 11:51:31 GMT -5
My mom's name is Maria and her middle name is Christina. My mom's family calls her Tina and my dad's family calls her Maria.
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Post by andi9899 on Jun 30, 2016 11:52:17 GMT -5
My grandma's name is Lydia and everyone in the family calls her Teddy.
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Post by hoops902 on Jun 30, 2016 13:29:57 GMT -5
We have a glut of "Lindas". My mom is Linda, my wife's mom is Linda, I have an aunt on each side of my family named Linda, my brother's mother-in-law is Linda. Thankfully, most of the interaction is easy. If my mom and MIL are together, then "Linda" is MIL, "mom" is my mom. Same for "aunt Linda" and "mom" on different sides of the family. For my wife and I it's "your mom" and "my mom".
At work we have a bunch of Bens on the same team. I (and most others) typically just refer to each of them by their last name.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 14:32:00 GMT -5
We have 2 Daves in our neighborhood, Dave next door and Dave across the street. Then there is Brother Dave. DH still gets them confused sometimes.
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Post by alabamagal on Jun 30, 2016 14:37:51 GMT -5
I had a friend I used to work with named Stacey (female). She married a guy at work named Stacy. She changed her last name. At first they said the guy would go by his middle name, but that didn't last long. Back in the days before everyone had their own phone, I called one time and he answered, I felt wierd asking to speak to the other Stacey. It was really confusing at work too, but their first names were spelled differently.
They did not name any of their kids Stacey or Stacy.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 30, 2016 15:25:43 GMT -5
I also know a husband and wife Joe and Sue who named their girls Joanna and Susanna. If I met them in real life, I might consider slapping them.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 30, 2016 15:31:38 GMT -5
Not exactly the same name theme but we had next door neighbors who were:
Jean - mother Jim - Father Joe, Joan, Jennifer and Julie - kids Jett - the dog
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Post by imawino on Jun 30, 2016 15:35:32 GMT -5
I also know a husband and wife Joe and Sue who named their girls Joanna and Susanna. If I met them in real life, I might consider slapping them. Someone ought to. Might as well be you.
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Post by teen persuasion on Jul 1, 2016 13:41:51 GMT -5
Grandpa, uncle Dennis, Doc (not a doctor), little Denny. I'm not sure if little Denny has a son yet. My FIL is Joe, his biological son that died in infancy was little Joe, my DH (adopted later) uses his different middle name with family and thru college but uses Joe since adulthood, our son uses his different again middle name, or a concatenation of first syllables from first and middle as a joke. A family we know is Stephen and Stephanie, and one of their sons is also Stephen. No idea how they manage. My dad used the short form of his name, and full form for my brother. Things got confusing when brother began using short form, too. Got even more confusing when our sister got married - her DH has lots of brothers, several sets of twins, including 2 with the same names as both our brothers. At her wedding, someone was supposed to give a paper to S to pass on to T. Wrong S automatically gave it to wrong T, who was grumbling that no one had told him he was doing a reading! My brother S decided to use our paternal grandfather's name John, instead of his name, for his oldest son, but we all call him Jack. Unfortunately, that is another of our sister's brothers-in-law, her DH's twin.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 1, 2016 14:15:41 GMT -5
We have a Denny and a little Denny too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 18:22:53 GMT -5
Not same names, just falling under nicknames you give people. Husband finally finished a job for 'crazy lady' today..
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 3, 2016 12:19:22 GMT -5
I said on the other thread about daughter's friends Saturday Tara and Sunday Tara (based on the art class they attend). She also has two friends named Isis. One Isis, one Isis from art class. We do a lot of the possessive name calling. We have a large homeschool group. There are bound to be repeats. So there is a fair bit of... I saw Miss Jenn's Violet at the pool. Or "Ayden did this"... Which Ayden, Miss Kathy's or Miss Molly's ? As for adults with the same name, its either Miss Heather Last name, or if the last name is difficult Miss Heather first initial of last name. Oh dear ... that has to be a difficult name right now. Heather, Jennifer, Ashley, Allison, Melissa, Tiffany, Andrea.... 80s babies unite!
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 3, 2016 12:25:45 GMT -5
Also I know of now two families where the husband is Michael, the first child is a girl named Michaela, and the second child is a boy named Michael. Really? All the kids had to have your name? And why are the wives okaying this?
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jul 3, 2016 12:37:14 GMT -5
We also have 3 generations of Roberts on each side of the family. On my mom's side they are Robert, Bobby, and Leroy respectively. On dad's side they are Gus, Robo, and little Bobby. My dad's brother and his son are both Richard. They are Rick and Ricky. Sometimes they are big Rick and little Rick. This reminded me-- my brother and his wife were trying to pick a name for their son. DB is Richard, but goes by Rich. They refused to consider Richard Jr, for fear of them being called Big Dick and Little Dick. (I wonder if PB is going to change this on me. If it does, the old-fashioned nickname for Richard starting with a D.)
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 3, 2016 13:55:53 GMT -5
We also have 3 generations of Roberts on each side of the family. On my mom's side they are Robert, Bobby, and Leroy respectively. On dad's side they are Gus, Robo, and little Bobby. My dad's brother and his son are both Richard. They are Rick and Ricky. Sometimes they are big Rick and little Rick. This reminded me-- my brother and his wife were trying to pick a name for their son. DB is Richard, but goes by Rich. They refused to consider Richard Jr, for fear of them being called Big Dick and Little Dick. (I wonder if PB is going to change this on me. If it does, the old-fashioned nickname for Richard starting with a D.) That's hilarious!
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Post by milee on Jul 3, 2016 14:08:37 GMT -5
Not exactly the same name theme but we had next door neighbors who were:
Jean - mother Jim - Father Joe, Joan, Jennifer and Julie - kids Jett - the dog
We have friends where the mom and dad are Jen and John. The kids are Jake, Jace and John (and each of these little guys are around a year apart and look exactly alike - same hair cut, etc - so unless they're standing next to each other and you can tell who is tallest you have no idea which kid it is.) They think it's cute. They are the only ones. And yes, she gets livid when people can't remember the kids' names or calls a kid the wrong name.
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Post by suesinfl on Jul 3, 2016 14:18:01 GMT -5
My father was a Junior, my youngest brother was a III and nephew is IV. I'm not sure what my grandfather went by as he passed before I was born, but my dad went by Bill, brother Billy and his son Little Billy by family. Out side of family, father was Bill, brother was Billy or Bill he also had another nickname given to him by his biker friends, and his son Billy or Bill depending on his age when you met.
According to my mom, my grandfather was a traveling sales man in the 1920s when my grandmother had my father. As it were, my grandfather was out of town when she went into labor and my grandmother name my father Harry after the doctor when delivered him. Obviously his name was changed before it was registered.
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Post by Apple on Jul 3, 2016 18:54:11 GMT -5
Not two people, but when my brother got married, his wife's family decided he was no longer "David"*, but "Dave". One of them was talking to my sister about "Dave", and she asked "Who is Dave?" and they said my brother. She said "No, his name is David. It has always been David and will always be David." She was corrected and told he goes by Dave. Brother had no idea where this was coming from, and he informed his new relatives that he was "still David". I guess they tried to decide for him that since he was now married and "grown up", he should have the "grown up version".
They now call him "David", as they should.
My dad is a "Jr". He hates it and refused to name my older brother after himself. He had very strong feelings that a child should have his own name. I guess Gramma was in tears over it.
I ticked off my ex in-laws the same way by refusing to give my son his father's name in any form (father was on the same page). My ex's father was named "Donald Davis Lastname*". He named his first son Donald Davis Lastname Jr. Second son was Davis Donald. Third son (different mother) was Gregory Donald Lastname. My ex (forth son, same mother as son #3) was "Jeffrey Donald Lastname". They named the ex's sister after his mom (both mom and daughter went by the same nickname, so they were "big" and "little"). I figured there was enough name sharing in that family to last a few generations.
My brother "David"s MIL, wife, and daughter all share the first name, so the MIL goes by the first name, the SIL by first name unless she's with her mom, and my niece by first and middle name (and it's a mouthful!)
*names changed, effect the same
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