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11-26-2012 at 8:53 PM
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Sisters with same name

My SILs name is Katherine Elizabeth and her sisters names are

Elizabeth Monroe "Liza" and Elizabeth Betsy "Betsy".

So all 3 daughters share the name Elizabeth (which is their deceased grandmother) while I think this is beautiful. I think it is crazy the younger 2 have the same formal first name.

 Just odd to me.

Edit: Talked to my SIL and Betsy is Elizabeth Cary.  


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11-26-2012 at 8:57 PM
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Mrs.Frazier:

My SILs name is Katherine Elizabeth and her sisters names are

Elizabeth Monroe "Liza" and Elizabeth Betsy "Betsy".

So all 3 daughters share the name Elizabeth (which is their deceased grandmother) while I think this is beautiful. I think it is crazy the younger 2 have the same formal first name.

 Just odd to me.

So her middle name is Betsy...as in the nn for Elizabeth? So she has the same first and middle name?


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11-26-2012 at 9:00 PM
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Yikes. I love honoring someone, but this is waaay overboard.

And LOL at Elizabeth Betsy ::facepalm::

For a boy they could have used Robert Bob or Edward Ned! Come one people, think before you put pen to paper.


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11-26-2012 at 9:02 PM
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Her middle name is Betsy too? Because that's a standard nick name for Elizabeth. Even without that it's odd. Some people do that with a middle name which isn't really my style but perfectly fine. A first name is so weird! Dors SIL feel left out since it's not her first name or does she think she got lucky? I also think it's a bit odd when parents don't have anyone else they want to honor and also apparently can't think of or agree on any other names. Did one parent want Elizabeth nn Liza and the other want nn Betsy?

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11-26-2012 at 9:18 PM
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I was almost positive her middle name is Betsy. I may have messed that one up.

My sil has the grandmothers full name fn and mn so she has the more "important" name haha. They wanted all the girls to have Elizabeth in their name b/c the grandmother was like the matriarch of the family. But the fact they used it in the fn spot twice cracks me up.

The nicknames are after aunts. They have an aunt Liza and an aunt Betsy. So they wanted both those names (hope that makes sense).

These are super wealthy, high society people so maybe it is "normal" for them haha 


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11-26-2012 at 9:26 PM
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11-26-2012 at 9:36 PM
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I have a friend whose mom is one of five or six girls. All these sisters have the first name of Mary. Mary Katherine, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Claire, etc etc. They all go by their middle name.

Apparently their mom was a very serious catholic and really liked Mary.  


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11-27-2012 at 12:19 AM
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BlindysWife:

I have a friend whose mom is one of five or six girls. All these sisters have the first name of Mary. Mary Katherine, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Claire, etc etc. They all go by their middle name.

Apparently their mom was a very serious catholic and really liked Mary.  

umm....yikes! 


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11-27-2012 at 4:10 AM
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BlindysWife:

I have a friend whose mom is one of five or six girls. All these sisters have the first name of Mary. Mary Katherine, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Claire, etc etc. They all go by their middle name.

Apparently their mom was a very serious catholic and really liked Mary.  

On Friends didn't Joey's sisters all have Mary _____ names?  I didn't think it happened IRL...


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11-27-2012 at 8:47 AM
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Definitely odd. Elizabeth could have been their middle names and it wouldve been just as meaningful and less confusing. However, the Chinese do this. I have a friend whose name is Ga Leung. His sister is Ga something. His brother is Ga something. They all go by their MNs.

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11-27-2012 at 9:17 AM
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BlindysWife:

I have a friend whose mom is one of five or six girls. All these sisters have the first name of Mary. Mary Katherine, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Claire, etc etc. They all go by their middle name.

Apparently their mom was a very serious catholic and really liked Mary.  

On Friends didn't Joey's sisters all have Mary _____ names?  I didn't think it happened IRL...

Ha! That's even funnier because he's Joey. :) 


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11-27-2012 at 9:19 AM
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BlindysWife:

I have a friend whose mom is one of five or six girls. All these sisters have the first name of Mary. Mary Katherine, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Claire, etc etc. They all go by their middle name.

Apparently their mom was a very serious catholic and really liked Mary.  

I have cousins like this, but luckily there is only two of them--Mary Pat and Mary Beth.  I always thought that was odd, like how about giving your daughters their own names!

On a sidenote, whenever I think of them I either think of Friends, as PPs mentioned or the scene in Pretty Woman where she goes shopping and they suck up to her b/c I swear the sales girls are something like "Mary Pat, Mary Kate, Mary Francis..."


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11-27-2012 at 10:10 AM
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BlindysWife:

I have a friend whose mom is one of five or six girls. All these sisters have the first name of Mary. Mary Katherine, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Claire, etc etc. They all go by their middle name.

Apparently their mom was a very serious catholic and really liked Mary.  

 

This is pretty common among Catholics.  It's still weird though, IMO.


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11-27-2012 at 11:09 AM
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My neighbor is named Anthony Joseph  his first son is Anthony Joseph Jr., his second son is Joseph Vincent, his third son is Vincent Joseph and his daughter is Josephine Antonia lol

 
11-27-2012 at 2:47 PM
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11-27-2012 at 3:10 PM
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I have a friend and both of her sisters are named Ethel. AND, that's the mother's name too!
 
11-27-2012 at 6:12 PM
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I don't know anyone IRL with ridiculous names like that, but I do always giggle with I hear about people siblings names like John and Jack, Emma and Emily, etc. There has got to be a happy medium between completely dull and overly creative.

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