A Parent By Any Other Name: The Mombian LGBTQ Parental Names Project
What do kids call their LGBTQ parents and other key adults in their lives? It’s a question many of us have asked ourselves and been asked by others. I launched a form to collect answers to this question back in 2011, and more than 400 people have responded so far, with both their parental names (and names of donors, birth parents, and others) and the stories behind them. Read summaries or the full results spreadsheet at the links below, or add your own in the form below that!
Summaries
A Parent By Any Other Name: What Kids Call Their LGBTQ Parents (2024 Update)
One of the most frequent questions I’ve heard from prospective LGBTQ parents is “What should our kids call us?” Here are just a few of the 400+ real-life names—and the stories behind them—that people have shared with the Mombian LGBTQ Parental Names Project since it began in 2011. Have a read and add your own!
Nonbinary Parent Names and Stories from the LGBTQ Parental Names Project
To celebrate Nonbinary Awareness Week, here are several dozen wonderful, creative nonbinary parent names and the stories behind them, all submitted by nonbinary parents or their spouses/partners to the LGBTQ Parental Names Project that I’ve been running since 2011.
What Do Your Kids Call You? A 2022 Update of LGBTQ Parent Names
I first asked the titular question in 2011, and nearly 340 of you have responded since, along with many wonderful stories about how your parental names came to be. Here’s an updated summary of the LGBTQ Parental Names Project (and a chance to add your own names and stories)!
LGBTQ Parents: What Do Your Kids Call You? (2021 Update)
I first asked the titular question back in 2011, and more than 300 of you have responded over the years, along with lots of stories about how your parental names came to be—so here’s an updated summary of the LGBTQ Parental Names Project (and a chance to add your own names and story)!
