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Likewise, the OP should be aware that Sefardim give children names after their living parents and are not choshesh for anything. and so do Dutch Ashkenazim.

This is a beautiful Minhog, as the grandparent knows the person who shall bear his/her name, and the grandchild knows the grandparents who bore his/her name.

Until approximately 500-600 years, when Rabbi Yehudo haChodid put a ban on this practice for fear of the Maloch haMoves going to the wrong person bearing this name. even Ashkenazim named after living grandparents, so the entire practice of not naming after living ancestors is flimsy & not so ancient.