Why we name the grand-father, or great grand-fathers name to the new born babies?
The practice of Naming the new born babies after the grandparents is to just for honoring, remembering and as a sort of homage to the dead relatives. It is followed in many contries and including India. In Sephardim–that is, Jews of Iberian or Middle-Eastern origin–usually name their children after a grandparent, either living or dead, and many Sephardic grandparents look forward to being honored with grandchildren who bear their own names while they are still alive to see it. Sephardim are also much more punctilious about naming a boy after a man and a girl after a woman than are most Ashkenazim. In Sephardic families this procedure often has the effect of strengthening transgenerational ties between grandfathers and grandsons, and between grandmothers and granddaughters.- The French often use a child’s middle name to pay homage to a set of grandparents, using both grandmothers’ first names for a girl and both grandfathers’ names for a boy. – In some contries the name of the dead pe
