There are way too many kits being named after other cats now

Admittingly I do think some situations are appropriate when it comes to legacy names, for example, Sorreltail naming one of her kits after Cinderpelt who died trying to protect them...

Leafpool I'm alright with since you can argue multiple cats were in mind for her name Leafstar/Spottedleaf
Needleclaw I'm okayish with however Rootspring I don't get, it since to my knowledge or lack thereof Root appears saying "Your mom's bad lol" then dips
Hollytuft I can somewhat get behind, not really Sorrelstripe/Fernsong, Sorrel because it's a weird back-to-back naming legacy case, and Fernsong because unless Lion/Cinder did have a connection with Ferncloud it just seems like a weird case of "Oh someone we vaguely knew died, let's name one of our kids them and call it that"
Stem/Bristle I'm okayish with, but the same reasoning as Fernsong above with Gray
Tigertwo I'm definitely not a fan of, esp with the comparison to him and his literal mass murderer Grandpa, seriously I get wanting to reclaim a name but it's like...You can't just do that and then keep comparing him to his mass murderer Grandpa!! Very icky no good
Birch/Rowan just seems unnecessary
Spireclaw also seems unnecessary since we also have Shadowsight

And it's okay Sparkpelt didn't name Nightheart/Flamepaw after Firestar, it's his eyes duh /j seriously why give your grandson his great grandpa's name when he literally shows no qualities of Firestar to be given the -heart suffix, why not Flameeyes or Flametongue, literally anything to give him his own distinctive character rather than forcing the photo perfect character onto him

I actually like all three of these because I feel like it obviously makes sense for Hollyleaf, Sorreltail was Cinderheart’s mom so that’s fair, and Ferncloud was a sort of second (or third) mom to Lionblaze as a kit, if I recall correctly, as Squirrelflight didn’t nurse them and didn’t like spending too much time in the nursery. Of course after The Sight I don’t think this is ever mentioned or relevant, but I wish it was and I like to think that’s why Fernsong is named after Ferncloud.

Honestly, I don’t really mind legacy names at all though, which seems to be somewhat of an unpopular opinion these days.

Everybody is named after Firestar now.

Maybe an unpopular opinion? But I'm fine with legacy naming. It's a nice (albeit minor) way to show bonds and friendships. Just going off the ones mentioned here there aren't that many cats named after another, and they at least have logical reasoning behind them as opposed to just naming cats after others for the sake of it.

The Clans could absolutely stand to use more unique names like Glade, Meadow, Blue, or whatever else though.

Flametail wasn't named after Firestar? Neither Tawnypelt or Rowanclaw had much to do with him. By that logic then every cat who's name can be related to "fire" may as well be named after Firestar. You could maybe reason Sparkpelt, but the only ones we know for sure are Firefern and Nightheart because they're explicitly stated. 

*this came out longer than I intended, sorry about the rambles

Legacy names started off cool, and Leafpool is the first main-series canon one I can think of (Although I really do prefer her being named after Leafstar instead of Spottedleaf, I wiiiish we got a proper introduction between leafstar and leafpool)

Leaf- had also not been used as a prefix at all at that point iirc.
Cinderheart being named after Cinderpelt made sense, especially for the whole 'reincarnation' plot they tried to go with. I think this is the first legacy name we actually got confirmed as legacy, since Leafpool wasn't officially canonized until FQ.

I feel like legacy names wouldn't be such an issue if it wasn't for cats being so close together in time. I could forgive Tigerheart's name since Tawny wanted to reclaim it, but others are excessive.

Sorrel-, Holly- and Fern- were pretty close to their namesakes, but I feel like it made some sense for them to be named that after a historic battle, especially out of the ThunderClan cats that died they had the most relation to Lion/cinder (Ferncloud nursed Lionblaze, don't forget, and he mentally acknowledged her as feeling like a mother to him)

after this is when we go insane. I feel like they feel like they're running out of good Prefixes for some reason, and decide to use 'fan favorites' or recent characters instead.
If they want to reuse prefixes they should use ones we haven't seen in quite some time (Blue-, Goose-, Thistle-, Stag-, etc)

There's just so many good names they could go with but for some reason think legacy naming is the way to go. I hope after Nightheart's whole dobackle it becomes uncommon again and kits are given their own deserved names.

The sound of Dawnstep sounds really nice, it’s like as if she’s very optimistic and/or has leadership qualities.

Ashfur (ShC) is crying in a corner rn. You made him sad smh./j


But no one even remembers him tbh. Ashfur (TC) took care of that with his infamous rise to incel status.