The world is filled with sad news daily, but once in a while, you encounter a wholesome situation that restores your faith in humanity. The subreddit thread, Made Me Smile , serves that purpose solely as it encourages Reddit users to share positive content that cheers others up.
A recent share showed a video of a new mother presenting her baby girl to her best friend while revealing that she named the child after the older lady.
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Choosing baby names is a serious business, and anyone should consider it an honor when new parents christen their children after them.
Friend Cries After New Mother Names Her Daughter After Her
People Choose Baby Names Based On Influences
Several situations inspire parents to name their children, and with the hundreds of thousands of options available, it’s rarely an easy decision. Most parents go with trending baby names in “Baby Name Books” or on the internet.
Others choose based on celebrity influence, while some parents stick to the names of their family members. However, some friends become family and deserve their legacies carried on through names, and that’s the case with this subreddit post.
The new mother surprised her friend by informing her of her newborn girl being the latter’s namesake! The friend couldn’t contain her joy, which spilled into happy tears.
Fellow Redditors shared their stories of relatives and friends naming their children (and pets) after them, and the entire thread is a pleasant way to uplift your spirit.
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Redditors Share Hilarious Situations
The Thread Gets Sentimental
Awesome Friends Get Special Treatment
Celebrities Do It Too
The Baby Naming Trend Is Now About Uniqueness
The Reddit commentary started with jokes as users listed the times their friends and families named pets after them. One person is namesake after a donkey, while another and his brother share names with goats. Fellow users cheered the latter, saying they could be the “Greatest of All Time, a.k.a. G.O.A.T.”
Then the tone shifted to more wholesome content as people shared instances where family and friends named children after them. One person said she cried upon realizing the news and consistently cries in joy every time she addresses a birthday gift to the child named after her.
Another Redditor noted that even celebrities adopt this sentimental style of a parent like David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, who named his daughter Zowie because that’s what Bowie called him.
Naming children for celebrities is rarely sentimental these days as it’s become more of a competition for who has a unique name. That trend started with the Kardashian-Jenner clan and hasn’t ended since. It even caused a stir when someone claimed Kylie Jenner copied her child’s name as Wolf leading the reality T.V. star to change her newborn’s name.
Also, there’s Nicki Minaj, whose son celebrated his second-year birthday in September, yet the world only knows him by his nickname – Papa Bear.
