Abstract
This paper deals with the practice of naming children after kin, one of the most powerful expressions of social or personal relatedness between kinspersons. Based on a thematic analysis of over 200 posts from a Polish parenting forum devoted to naming decisions, the author outlines the forum users’ main attitudes toward this naming practice and the arguments employed to justify their appraisals and decisions. Analysis shows that, on the whole, the closer the child is related to the name source in terms of kinship, the more negative the attitude toward such a choice of name. Positive attitudes were most often framed in terms of personal relatedness between the name-source relative and the parent(s). On the other hand, the dominant theme underlying the rejection of such names was the uniqueness of the child’s identity, which, according to the users, should find its expression in an individualized forename.
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