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FenrirIII@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

I have never met a woman named after her own mother

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I have never met a woman named after her own mother

FenrirIII@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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  • NONE@lemmy.world
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    Tell me you don’t live in a Hispanic Country without telling me you don’t live in a Hispanic Country.

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      It’s not a thing in Brasil.

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        Brasil is in Brasil America. We are talking about where all the latins live

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          Brazil is in Latin America. All the other countries are Hispanic America

          • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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            Poor Suriname, always forgotten…

            • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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              And my guess is we completely eliminate Guyana, because it considers itself Caribbean instead of South American anyway.

      • NONE@lemmy.world
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        Damn, I really messed up. Thanks for the heads up.

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          You’re good. My wife is Mexican and she has the same first name as her mother.

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            Maria?

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    Good. Let kids have their own identity. I’ve always cringed at the Ebeneezer Gortlegump IV’s of the world.

    What I have seen is it is much more common to have the firstborn daughter have a middle name of an ancestor, often grandmother.

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      Can confirm myself, my mother, and my maternal grandmother all have the same middle name. Call it a southern thing I suppose. I killed the tradition by being childess and my younger sister refused to pass it to my niece.

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    My wife’s g-grandmother was Mary. Her daughters were Mary Margaret, Mary Agnes, Mary Elizabeth, and Mary Alice. Newfies.

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      Are they Irish?

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        Newfies are Irish in the same way that Quebecois are French

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          welcome to the rock

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        Oh yeah.

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      Never have I ever met a family with a shared name.

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        My family shares 5 names among everybody. 2 for the women, 3 for the men.

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    This got me thinking about how there is no female equivalent of junior or senior

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      I always assumed it would just be the same, but now that you mention it I’ve never met a female junior

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        That’s what I was thinking

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          Good shower thought!

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    Yes you have. They’re just better about it.

    I’ve met so many mother daughters, including my own mother and grandmother, who just alter their own name a little bit instead of going for a “Junior” type deal.

    For instance, my Nana’s name is Elizabeth but goes by beth. My mom is Eliza Beth-Ann but goes by Eliza or Liz.

    (Also yes I’m from the south)

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    My mother, grandmother and great grandmother all have same name, but used different short forms to differentiate.

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      Same, but also add my aunt and great aunt.

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        Sue, Susie, and Susathon

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          Margaret, Marge, Greta, Peggy, etc. ad infinitum.

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    Yet I’m sure they exist.

    From some random article:

    Naming a daughter after a mother isn’t a modern phenomenon; in some cultures, the tradition of matrilineal naming goes back centuries. In Ireland, and several other European countries, it was commonplace to name the first daughter after the maternal grandmother, the second daughter after the paternal grandmother, and the third daughter after the mother.

    The practice is also prevalent in several Spanish-speaking countries, where it’s common to carry on both parents’ last names as well.

    And then there’s Iceland.

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    The weirdest combination I’ve ever met was a set of female twins. One was named after their mother. The other had a different first name. Must have been really odd when growing up.

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      Should have given them both the same first name, and dressed them the same as kids. Taught them to speak together in the same voice. Then used them to committ tax fraud.

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    You’ve obviously haven’t met every woman.

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    obviously no one in your family is named Elizabeth

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    Do middle names count?

    Becauae I think all Swedish women have the middle name Anna.

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    I know one, but it’s a little complicated. The woman is named Ann, and this is because when she was adopted at birth, the adoptive parents named her after the biological mother, also Ann. So yes and no.

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    My partner has the same name as her mother.

    • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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      Well, I’ve never met her.

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