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Grandad names

107 replies

AlbertVictoriaPlum · 04/04/2023 19:38

Throw your favourites at me please. Not Stanley or Wilfred as we have these in the family

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mathanxiety · 08/04/2023 03:07

Dermot
Gerard
Kenneth
Maurice

CastlesinSpain · 08/04/2023 00:28

Hubert

neverendinglauaundry · 08/04/2023 00:22

Mine are Gerald & Thomas
My kids' are Bernard and Julien

mathanxiety · 08/04/2023 00:20

Roger
Douglas
Francis
Finbar
Donal
Donagh
Eamon
Liam
Noel
Brian
Lawrence
Robert
Patrick
Jeremiah

RuthW · 07/04/2023 22:14

Mark
Gary
Neil
Steven
Robert
Andrew
Simon
David
Michael

MaidOfSteel · 07/04/2023 21:09

Frederick, Walter, Joseph, Percival, Archibald, Harold, Arthur, Albert, Alfred, Reginald, Norman, Wilbur, Bert, Sid.

mathanxiety · 07/04/2023 19:40

Roy
Raymond
Bertram

MummyHopeful2 · 07/04/2023 19:33

starfish4517 - Which ones do you consider timeless and which do you consider dated? Not for any particular reason, I'm just interested. Smile

Mumped · 07/04/2023 07:00

Grandads in our family are Matthew (Matt), Charlie, Kevin, Sean.

I really want Kevin to come back into fashion. I reckon it’ll be a hipster choice of the future 🤣

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 07/04/2023 06:59

wendywoopywoo222 · 04/04/2023 19:43

I love Roy but also met such a cute little Percy last week. I like that too.

Is that a euphemism you slipped in there? 😆

Displayedwhenyoupost · 07/04/2023 06:56

Men i in their 80s and above that I know:
Thomas (Tom)
Robert (Bob)
Michael
James (Jim)
Bruce
Alan
Graham
John
William (Bill)
Derek
Norman
Leonard (Len)
Edward (Eddie/Ted)
Gordon

I think most of the old Stanleys/Wilfreds/Ernests/ Archies have passed on now, and they are the ones back in fashion it seems.

starfish4517 · 07/04/2023 06:44

Number24Bus · 07/04/2023 06:33

@starfish4517 Some "grandad" names are timeless and cross-generational - I'd say these are names like George, Edward, Thomas, William, James.

Others are currently considered rather dated and may or may not make a comeback - names like Walter, Bernard, Kenneth, Leonard.

It just depends on the name. I expect it's the same in your country too? Not particularly a British thing.

Interesting, you are right, there is just a difference in which names fall in which category. Some of them from your outdated list would fall in my timeless list and vice versa Grin

dimpleton · 07/04/2023 06:43

Roger
Ken
Royston
Leonard
Clive
Dennis
Graham
Keith
Maurice
Phillip
Vernon

YukoandHiro · 07/04/2023 06:37

This thread is irritating. It's clear the OP meant names of poster grandads not newly made ones.
And where I live most granddads are absolutely not 45. That would make them 6-8 years older than the women becoming FTMs 😲

Number24Bus · 07/04/2023 06:33

@starfish4517 Some "grandad" names are timeless and cross-generational - I'd say these are names like George, Edward, Thomas, William, James.

Others are currently considered rather dated and may or may not make a comeback - names like Walter, Bernard, Kenneth, Leonard.

It just depends on the name. I expect it's the same in your country too? Not particularly a British thing.

starfish4517 · 07/04/2023 05:59

A genuine question from a non-British.

Why do names of new granddads (born in the 60s) are so "nah"?

DS has one of these, based on the translation of my FIL's name, which in our language is absolutely timeless, classic and cross-generational, and only by reading MN I realised I must have saddened him with something terribly outdated (he's the only one in his school indeed Confused)

user1492757084 · 07/04/2023 05:43

Old Grandad and friends ....

Humphrey
Barry
Richard
Laurence
Ronald
Ian
Alan
Bill
Ken
Russell
Stirling
Pop ... ha ha ha
Geoffrey
Mark
David
Tim
Peter
Michael
Leon
James
Colin

TortolaParadise · 05/04/2023 17:16

Max

Bienemajas · 05/04/2023 15:33

Christopher
Quentin
Leonard

thebaneofmylifeisacat · 05/04/2023 00:23

Funny thread

Think there's a gap between acceptable grand parents names so all the grandads I know are

Mark
Gary
Nigel
John
Paul
Dave
Adrian
Derrick

Grand mums are

Sarah
Karen
Jackie
Alison
Susan
Sally
Pauline
Heather

I think great or great grand parents names far more popular now

Chocolatesandroses · 04/04/2023 23:34

My grandads and great grandads/great uncle names
Robert , Phillip , Reginald , Leonard, Victor , Herbert , Bertie , Henry , George , William , Samuel, Patrick , Thomas , Edmund , Sidney and James

BeaLola · 04/04/2023 23:31

Peter
Samuel

Tofumammy · 04/04/2023 23:20

Gilbert, Sidney, Howard, Bernard, Cecil, Desmond, Frank, Victor.

Lulu1919 · 04/04/2023 23:20

Jim
Bert
Ray

MyGrandmaLizzie · 04/04/2023 23:18

Cyril
Herbert
Wallace
Hubert