My friend is having her baby tomorrow! She has no boys names at all but may use Henry as it is her dad's middle name. She likes the idea of an old fashioned name.
I loved the list of grandma's names so hit me with your Grandad's name!
My friend is having her baby tomorrow! She has no boys names at all but may use Henry as it is her dad's middle name. She likes the idea of an old fashioned name.
I loved the list of grandma's names so hit me with your Grandad's name!
Mum's dad = Norman
Dad's dad = Eric
George and David,
I think boys names repeat more often.
Some old Uncles- Albert, Desmond, William,
Grandfathers: Frances James and Douglas Crosbie
Dads: mine - Andrew Thomas, DH - Maurice James
Clarence and Francis
Mine:
Harry
Russell
DH:
Alan
Perrtti (or Peter in english) (my DH is half Finnish so hence the unusual name :) )
Kenneth and Arthur
Older uncles, Eric, Barry, Gary, James, Charles
Mine are Glen and Robert (Bob). DH's dad & uncles are almost the same age as my grandparents, and their names are Lloyd, Cyril, Ron, Keith, and I can't remember the rest
Sadly mine are Cyril and Wifrid!! Although they were called James and Bill.
Gerald William and Joseph Francis
DHs were Mauritz and Bill
Mine are Geoffery and George.
William, Charlie, Ernest .. umm pretty common well except ernest
On both mine and DH's because I only knew one of mine, George, Ronald and James!
Kevin Lack
Royston
DH's are/were Colin & Merv (Mervyn maybe?)
My great uncle's names I remember:
James (Jim)
Peter
Patrick
Jack
Robert
Wayne & David.
William & Gilbert.
Geoffrey James
Patrick Joseph
Alan Henry
Bruce Robert
Thomas Keith
Donald John
My mum's dad: Leonello
Dad's dad: Douglas
DH's dad's dad: Cyril
Dh's mum's dad: James
Colin
Jeffrey
Francis
Neville
Kenneth
Lesley
& Herbert Ronald for middle names.
My grandfathers names were Stuart, Charles, John, Sidney, Lesley
My kids grandfathers names are Stuart, David, William (Bill) and Stuart again
Clifford Thomas (always called tom)
Paul ?
great uncles Sydney and George; Mickey; Albert
Mine were Charles and Hendrik - called Henk. A Dutch name.
Mine were George and Hugh
My kids grandfathers are Ian and Rudolf
Both mine were Reginald.
My girls grandfathers names are Greg & Micheal.
Mine: Eric Raymond, Herbert James (called Joe!)
DH: Ernest & Robert
Mum: Robert
Dad: John
Pretty simple and commone names
My DD Grandfathers are: Anthony (Tony) & Kenneth (Ken)
My grand dad's were named Wally and William
DH's is Allan which we used as Moo's middle name!
BTW am loving these older names for boys! My DS has an older style name and am stumped on what I'd name another son if I was blessed with one.
Albert (bert)
Colin
Sydney
Eric
Ernest (rolf)
only one i know from df's side was Kevin
Mums Dad: Diego Richard
Dad's Dad: Alfred Ambrose
Other names in the family:
Joseph
Albert
Dennis
Leslie
Alan
Anthony
Robert
My dads dad was James
not too sure about my mums(dont think she knows either :o) but her grandfathers name was Lancelot he was awesome so DSs middle name is Lance :D
My Great Grandads - Oliver and Ernest
My Grandads - Lionel Clement, Geoffrey and step grandad Stewart
My DD's Poppy is Shane Allan and their Grandad is Stephen Grant
Great uncles Neville, Brian, Malcolm, Colin & Collin, David, Kevin x 2, Ian
Do you know why this is awesome? When we did grandma names, every single girls name we had came up.
I have already seen every single boys name on our list come up. We're so old school :lol:
I had John Charles (called Jack)
William James (Bill)
Carl (step-grandfather)
DH had Keith Clark (I think?!?)
and Anthony Gordon
James Roy (Jim)
Bentley Charles (Ben)
Arthur. Don't know the other
Mine were Cyril and Walter and my brother had no name due to mum and dad fighting over is name D wanted walter M said NO unless its walter cyril so he is Stephen John
Dh Graham
Wilfred John (he went by John, lol) and Samuel Darcy
Ivan was my grandads name..
It is the russian version for john
interesting little info here: We named our First son Ethan John, We chose the middle name simply because it went well together. a few years ago we found out the in Russian Ivan stands for John and in Finnish it is Jukka which is my FIL..
I don't know mum's dad's name, but dad's dad is Richard.
Dh's dad's dad's name was Kenneth, and his mum's dad was Keith ( which is one of the names on his list)
Peter / Hans
Edward George (Ted)
Henry Frank (Harry) - go figure. My Dad's middle name is Henry, my bro's middle name is Raymond (my dad's name), but as my bro isn't having children there stops the tradition on that side of the family...
DP's grandfather William - DP's middle name