Name your kid after me or dont. No middle ground.

I don't understand people who think that naming their child after a grandparent or other relative only requires the use of the first letter in the name.

"My son's name is Mason. He's named after his great uncle Mortimer."

"We're naming her Piper after my grandmother Patty-Sue."

There are people who abide by this logic.  A lot of them.

I once met a woman named Cara who claimed to be named after her grandmother Clara.  I wanted to tell her that if her parents really wanted to name her...