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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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MummyHopeful2 · 04/04/2023 21:21

Raymond
Jeremy
Gregory

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 04/04/2023 21:16

Daffodilwoman · 04/04/2023 21:01

People born in the 40s aren’t just becoming grandparents. They are in their 70s and 80s.
People becoming grandparents now will be Dean
Darren
Paul
Steve
Michael
Ian
Simon

Different circles I suppose but I know several people born in the 1940s who have only recently become grandparents. And I don't think I know anyone in their 50s who's a grandparent.

charliegirl86 · 04/04/2023 21:10

Edwin (Eddie)
David
John

Not Particularly nice!!
How about jasper/edward/Henry/ Charles/Arthur/

threesheets · 04/04/2023 21:05

Bob's a good grandad name. Cuts across several generations.

Timeforchangeithink · 04/04/2023 21:03

Archie (Archibald)
Ronnie (Ronald)

FlutterbButterfly · 04/04/2023 21:02

Victor
Clement
Augustus
Godfrey
Edgar
Ralph
Roland
Lionel
Fraser
Gordon
Gerald
Randolph

Daffodilwoman · 04/04/2023 21:01

People born in the 40s aren’t just becoming grandparents. They are in their 70s and 80s.
People becoming grandparents now will be Dean
Darren
Paul
Steve
Michael
Ian
Simon

sunmonlight · 04/04/2023 20:58

Walter

ThatshallotBaby · 04/04/2023 20:47

Claude

wlv12 · 04/04/2023 20:43

Michael
William
Dennis

Yankeedoodlemandy · 04/04/2023 20:41

Well my dad father in law and my friends dads all born in 40s/ 50/ are Mike Mick Steve David etc

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 04/04/2023 20:39

Yankeedoodlemandy · 04/04/2023 20:24

Most names being suggested here would be great grandparent or great great grandparent names here. Grandad names would surely be Michael, Steve, Dave, Pete etc based on them being in their fifties or sixties .

Nah. I think most people on the thread went for the right era. 1940s/50s onwards.

nildesparandum · 04/04/2023 20:38

My son was a grandad at 42. His name has been mentioned on here but among the younger ones.

TomatoSandwiches · 04/04/2023 20:38

Keith.... who the fuck calls their baby Keith? 😂

Justcallmebebes · 04/04/2023 20:37

My lovely grandad was Ronald (Ron) and his brother was Norman

WhatFreshHeckle · 04/04/2023 20:37

I love Wilfred (and it actually was my grandfather's name)! But he's long passed away and he HATED his name, so I didn't use it.

His middle name was Francis. Similar era names (to me) would be;

Fergus
Ivan
Donald
Gabe (Gabriel)
Alistair
Billy (William)
Joseph

RoseBucket · 04/04/2023 20:36

Brian, James, Frank and Michael are the ones I know.

MrsALambert · 04/04/2023 20:33

Harold
Percy
Albert
Arthur
Edward
Kenneth

BakewellGin1 · 04/04/2023 20:31

Ted
Fred
Harold
Jimmy
Paul
Albert
Eric
Percy
Tom
Bert
Arthur - don't do it I know 12 under the age of 5

thebaneofmylifeisacat · 04/04/2023 20:31

Lol grandads names above my sons names( 30s)

Maybe let's just bloody call them what you bloody want

Pieceofpurplesky · 04/04/2023 20:30

Gordon.
Little Gordy

LysHastighed · 04/04/2023 20:29

Yankeedoodlemandy · 04/04/2023 20:24

Most names being suggested here would be great grandparent or great great grandparent names here. Grandad names would surely be Michael, Steve, Dave, Pete etc based on them being in their fifties or sixties .

Depends whether the poster means contemporary grandads or our grandads’ generation. I think people generally mean the latter when thinking of fashionable baby names.

RosesAndHellebores · 04/04/2023 20:29

I'm 62 and the boys in my year were called:

Jonathan
Jeremy
Julian
Philip
Anthony
Nicholas
Martin
Simon
Mark
Stephen
Christopher
David
Robert
Neil
Richard

DuchessOfSausage · 04/04/2023 20:26

Darren, Ian, Gary, Mark, Andrew, Paul, Richard...

WildAloofRebel · 04/04/2023 20:24

Oh and TED. And Fred of course. Absolutely everywhere.

Barney?

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