There is a woman on my birth board that lost her 13 yo son last year. She's having a little girl and is using the son's name as the girl's middle name. It seems rather odd to me. I get that she's trying to honor the son, but it seems like a burden on the little girl. It's an obvious boy name and I'm just thinking of a lifetime of explaining how she got it. Not that it would happen daily, but it's going to happen.
Maybe it's just my not understanding the grief. Maybe it's something I see in DH when MIL talks about the boy she lost before DH. I hope I never undertand.