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Grandad names

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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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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

FlutterbButterfly · 04/04/2023 21:02

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

Timeforchangeithink · 04/04/2023 21:03

Archie (Archibald)
Ronnie (Ronald)

threesheets · 04/04/2023 21:05

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

charliegirl86 · 04/04/2023 21:10

Edwin (Eddie)
David
John

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

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.

MummyHopeful2 · 04/04/2023 21:21

Raymond
Jeremy
Gregory

DustyLee123 · 04/04/2023 21:22

Eric

Meandfour · 04/04/2023 21:24

thebaneofmylifeisacat · 04/04/2023 20:14

I think you might mean great grandads op.

Love that era of names but most grandads now are 45/55 starting age 😂

45 for a grandad??

redyellowpinkbluegreen · 04/04/2023 21:25

Not my fave but grandfathers I know

Raymond
Archibald
Basil (named my cat this I loved it so much. Met a baby basil last week)
Louis
Ronald

Meandfour · 04/04/2023 21:26

Ah 2 of my sons names are on here 😍

@AlbertVictoriaPlum how about
Ellis
Chester

Luredbyapomegranate · 04/04/2023 21:31

Richard nn Dickon (am serious, sort of)

Harold - Hal really needs a revival

easterbunnie · 04/04/2023 21:32

Royston
Cyril
Arthur
Terrence
Bert

FawnDrench · 04/04/2023 21:34

Eustace
Sylvester
Conrad
Walter
Derek
Richard
Norman
Wesley
Norris

ASQQueen · 04/04/2023 21:35

Paul
John
Peter
Kenneth
Terence
Allen
Richard
Graham
Geoffrey
Names of grandads

botheritsgone · 04/04/2023 21:38

A few generations back we have Bertie, Fred, Johnny, Alfie, George, Bill, Walter and Wilfred (Wilf)
Grandads in our family now Dennis, Ian, Ray, Sandy, Douglas Billy and Allan

Teapleasemilknosugar · 04/04/2023 21:39

Raymond
Ralph
Vincent

Dogsitterwoes · 04/04/2023 21:43

My grandparents were born in the 1890s, and you've got grandparents now who were born in the 1980s! What era do you want?

Old fashioned names I like
Peter
Dominic
Godfrey
Richard
Saul
Anthony
Ralph
Eric

easterbunnie · 04/04/2023 21:44

Gerald
Norman
Bill
George

ApolloandDaphne · 04/04/2023 21:45

My grandads were John and David.

paulinesmithson · 04/04/2023 21:47

Crimbles

HappyMe6 · 04/04/2023 21:50

Frank, Cecil . Maurice. Cyril. Cuthbert Bert Hubert Hugh, Ronald, Sid, Cedric. Roy. Luther

Racingadmin · 04/04/2023 21:51

Edward
Peter
Roy
Jamie
Dean
George
David

Firsttimecaller · 04/04/2023 21:53

Norbert
Neville
Victor
Gerard
Hilary
Leslie
Winston
Jebediah

BertieBotts · 04/04/2023 21:58

When people say grandparent names they mean their own grandparents generation, not the baby's grandparents.

That's how name trend cycles go. Your own generation and your parents generation just feel weird, but your grandparents generation (~80 years older than the baby) are starting to feel quaint and charming.

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