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Suggestions for "Grandad" style name?

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CheshireDing · 07/09/2013 06:24

DC2 is due at the beginning of December.

If it's a girl she will probably be Mary Harriet, if it's a boy we are currently stuck !

We already have a Poppy Arabella and absolutely love Arthur but it sounds stupid with our surname.

I am trying to persuade DH on Walter but he is wavering to and from it.

I like Ted as a nn but Edward is just okay.

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PinkGlove · 07/09/2013 08:09

My Grandads were George and Joseph?

Billwoody · 07/09/2013 08:12

Cyril
The name of my lovely grandad
Sounds quite French when you think about it

TheFowlAndThePussycat · 07/09/2013 08:15

My grandad is Horace! But everyone calls him Ken Grin

DH's grandad is Douglas.

ZingWantsCake · 07/09/2013 08:16

DH's Grandads were Douglad and Gordon - both English
mine Janos (John) and Laszlo (Leslie?) - both Hungarian

out of the hundreds of kids we know only one is called John (he is 14).

Gumps · 07/09/2013 08:25

Next doors little boy is called Wilbur which I think is very cute.
I also heard Patrick shortened to Patch which I likedtoo.

BlissfullyIgnorant · 07/09/2013 08:39

Algernon..
I know an Algy and he's cool
Plus, iPad corrects Algernon to Lager on. Sounds fine!

ThwartedbyMum · 07/09/2013 08:42

How about Howard?

PipkinsPal · 07/09/2013 08:46

My Grampa was Sydney Horatio (born exactly 100 years after the Battle of Trafalgar) and my other one who died years before I was born was David Henry.

bouncysmiley · 07/09/2013 08:46

Isaac, Ezra, Franklin?

forevergreek · 07/09/2013 08:47

Lionel
Leonard
Franklin
Otto
Michael
John
Victor
Laurence

ZingWantsCake · 07/09/2013 08:48

bouncy my 3-year old is Isaac! I#ll call him Gramps today! Grin

UpTheFRIGGinDuff · 07/09/2013 08:48

Alfred

UpTheFRIGGinDuff · 07/09/2013 08:49

Hubert
Wilbur
Wilfred
Clement
Claude
Percy

this list might help...

MrsMaryCooper · 07/09/2013 08:51

Roderick
Bruce
Donald
Cecil
Alexander

COCKadoodledooo · 07/09/2013 09:20

Bernard.

Theodore can be Ted also.

Writerwannabe83 · 07/09/2013 09:28

My grandads are called Patrick and Clifford Smile

Patrick could be nice???

MadameJosephine · 07/09/2013 09:33

My grandads and their siblings were

James
Robert
William
Edward
Sidney
Walter
Charles
Thomas
Franklin

I also love Edison, Darwin and nathaniel (nn Nate)

Writerwannabe83 · 07/09/2013 09:41

I rally like the name Robert Smile

insanityscratching · 07/09/2013 09:50

Ds1's friend has just named her baby Seth, I think it's lovely.

carrielou2007 · 07/09/2013 11:09

I love Edward so much choice too fir full name/nn it's dc3's middle name. His first name I LOVE though I do get strong reactions to it's Hamish proper full on grandad name Grin

nosleeptilever · 07/09/2013 11:14

my grandpas we're Cecil and Ralph. very old school!

frostymomma · 07/09/2013 11:35

Geoffrey

Betty3boys · 07/09/2013 13:42

I love older generation names!
We have three boys all named after our grandparents; eldest middle name is Arthur.
Second son's first name is Alfred (Gets called Alfie, Fred and Ted)
Our youngest is Sidney (Sid)
Currently expecting number four and if it's another boy he will be Stanley after hubby's other grandad.
The 1911 census is currently free to view on some websites and is full of some fantastic inspiration for grandparent names :)

Shapechanger · 07/09/2013 14:41

Wilfred, Ernest, Cecil, Cedric Ugh.

And Walter? Appalling and weedy. I feel your dh's pain.

Why do you want a stodgy old grandad name associated with pipe and slippers? I don't have a DS but I would want something that could at least be associated with some dynamism and masculinity.

MortifiedAdams · 07/09/2013 14:42

Arg was going to suggest Sid.

Lawrence?