[mrscoby78]

I just got off the phone with a guy named Mohammed Mohammed. I know there's probably some tradition of some sort for naming. I just don't get it. Anybody know?

 

[OldBaldHippie]

<img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif"><br><br>
does he have a brother named Darryl?

 

[jebba]

In some countries it was (not really any longer) the custom to name yourself after your father and grandfather, rather than having one last name that keeps being passed down. So mr jebba's dad was Walter (whose father was also Walter). Mr jebba would be Jacob Walter Walter. Easy's full legal name would be Ezra Walter Jacob.<br><br>
First names repeated might get you into the Mohammed Mohammed situation.

 

[Alternative School Grrl]

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Boy had a patient who named all of her male children (4 of them) Muhammed because she liked the name. No big deal, except she was both Korean and a Christian.<br><br><img alt="huh.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/huh.gif">

 

[jebba]

By the way, in some places it is more polite to call a man by his first name rather than Mr. So-and-so. And it's also common to call a person a name based on their first son's name: Mother-of-Ezra, Father-of-Ezra. So I'd be known in the neighborhood as Um-Ezra rather than Sharon (or jebba) and Mr jebba would be Abu-Ezra.

 

[mrscoby78]

Thanks Jebba!