2 boys named the same...

[OnErth&InHvn]

Would it be weird if we had a son and named him Elijah but my sons brother ( from his dads current girlfriend) is Elijah? We dont talk in any way and we arent "stealing" her name for him.

Would that be confusing for my son? Although he calls his brother Eli, and we wouldnt plan to call Elijah that.

 

[Buffyx]

I personally wouldn't do it, although I do love the name

 

[Eleanor ace]

For me it would be a no, just because I think it would feel weird to have 2 brothers with the same name, and when he'stalking about his brothers and he's like "yeah Elijah said this...." and constantly having to say big Elijah/little Elijah (or big Eli/little Eli if the boys both chose to go by Eli when they're older) might be annoying.

 

[OnErth&InHvn]

Well fiddles. Something to consider i guess.

 

[Alea]

I wouldn't do it. My understanding is that your son would have two half brothers named Elijah? That's going to get very confusing!

 

[BabyJayne]

There aren't many situations where I would say I wouldn't use the name, but I think this is one of them...sorry!!

 

[george83]

I wouldn't but if it's a name you love then I can see why you would. My son has the same name as his cousin and they have never met (they are 3 and 18 months) so it doesn't seem that strange to us

 

[LoraLoo]

I'd use it x

 

[ellahopesky]

No sorry too odd for me!

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Personally I wouldn't xx

 

[Indi84]

I wouldn't either, two brothers (from your ds's point of view) with the same name is odd!
I love the name though and considering it for my new little one.

Edit, I meant ds, not dad! Stupid auto correct

 

[Delphine11]

It's a great name but personally I'd never use it in these circumstances.

Could you find a similar kind of name and use that instead? Elijah is biblical so you could look for something biblical that you like. Maybe one of the more unusual ones.

 

[mattison]

I was just thinking of this!

My dad has two brothers named William. One from each of his parents' second marriages.

The families themselves don't mingle, so I think when he is talking about one brother the family understands who it is. But for HIS immediate family (us kids), we always are like nerdy-Uncle Will, or mean-Uncle Will (family joke, LOL)?, and it does at times get confusing. I have asked him if it was weird and he doesn't seem to think it was growing up, the two brothers lived in separate states with their own lives and he rarely spoke about the one to the other.

Now that we are all older, we usually just ask how Uncle Will is and we find out about both ;-)

I personally named my youngest with a middle name that my family uses for short quite often, and found out that my oldest son's father used the same name for his new baby. It confuses my mother, grandmother, siblings, etc, but my husband and I don't use the name. I think for my oldest son it would be confusing if both his brothers had the same name. Just today he was telling me their names and it would probably throw him off a little. He's only four though, so as he got older it'd probably get easier.

Food for thought, anyways!

 

[Iveneverseen]

I wouldn't either.

 

[OnErth&InHvn]

I asked this to be deleted.

Oh well, we are going with Elijah but not pronouncing it as such.

 

[Moma Ali]

I wouldnt, if it was further apart in the family like a cousin or uncle then maybe but not brothers that wouldnt be nice for the child who becomes stuck in the middle

great names that are similar:

Eleazar
Eliam
Elias
Eliron

or similar sounds:

Uriah
Jonah

there is also the varient Alijah which might be just diferent enough to not be so confusing

good luck

 

[OnErth&InHvn]

I asked this to be deleted.

Oh well, we are going with Elijah but not pronouncing it as such.

 

[CandiceSj]

I think there could be cases that it's OK. For cousins, I'm completely on board with two of them having the same name. For siblings, if the relationship is more of a distant relationship (huge difference in age, father has abandonned the family, that type of thing) I think it's OK but if they are close in age and risk being as close in relationship as siblings normally are, it becomes weird. And I mean this from their point of view (the kids having two Elijah brothers, or Elijah having a bro with the same name) and not from the point of view of the outsider looking in (who cares about us for real)

 

[hiphophooray]

I think it shouldn't matter, it is your son and if thats the name you want then who cares who else has that name!

 

[banana07]

Personally I wouldn't. Sorry.