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I love my name but I wouldn’t pass it on to anyone. Though husband and I both like another biblical R name for a possible future daughter. Two of my nieces have my mum’s last name before marriage as their middle names and two of my nieces have one granny’s first name each as their middle names. However all four nieces have their own first names that were picked because their parents liked them.

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I have my grand aunts’ first name as my middle name but as she died two years before I was born I don’t often think of her or the family link. My brother was named after my dad and they are both named John but my dad has been known as Ian since he was boy and my brother has always been called John so most people don’t realise. My parents didn’t realise when they named my brother John that they were carrying on a family tradition that stretches back more than 200 years with John, John, William, William, John, John, William…..

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