Baby names within your extended family

[LauraMoser]

Eh, no big deal to me. Like the name? By all means, use it.

I come from a large extended family like some of the PPs. I have a cousin named Samantha, and a second cousin also named Samantha. Second cousin's mom, C, was pretty close with first cousin Samantha's brother growing up. It obviously didn't stop her! lol. Since our family is so huge, they rarely see each other (maybe 1x a year).

On a side note, my maternal grandmother is now up to at least 30 (!!!) great grandchildren. And she still has plenty of grandchildren left that are too young to reproduce yet. I think that's amazingly cool.

[rootbeerfloat]

I think it's fine, especially with a traditional name like James.

[dragonfly08]

While I'm not a fan of "recycling" names if I can help it, it's definitely not uncommon in DHs family. There are plenty of repeats, including his brother and one cousin who have the exact.same.name. We're talking first, middle, last here. Thank goodness the cousin couldn't make it to our wedding because I was stressing about how to differentiate the placecards! :-)