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Originally Posted by Steven L. Akins
When naming my children I was very insistant that each of their three given names (yes they have three) were not some randomly chosen names that were picked because they had a nice sound to them.
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Why just three and not four?
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. And I may even be forgetting one.
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Names are very important and something your children will carry with them for the rest of their lives; so we actually practiced a very old tradition that was once common in the American South, and among Scottish people in general, of giving our children given names that were the surnames of ancestors that they are actually descended from.
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I think the tradition is giving them ancestral surnames as first names, which is defensible, but can make for some weirdly named females. I think most Northern families tend to use something from one side or the other as the middle name, whereas the first name is likelier to be chosen by taste alone.