Reply To: Yartzeit

I know for sure that parents are named for, and 2 siblings. Honestly, I don’t know about the other children – none of my cousins have those names. All the mechutanim, however, also went through the Holocaust – and one even lost a wife and a number of children.

I’ve thought that if I have another child I’d like to name it after one of her siblings. I’ve written before, however, that I had to go through fertility treatments to have my twins, and the odds of having more kids is very slim. My son is named for my grandfather, and my daughter is named for my mother-in-law. I felt those names had to come before great-aunts and great-uncles.