Grandad names

[AlbertVictoriaPlum]

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

I'm a grandmother... my Gkids grampas are all known by their shortened versions:
Rodney/Rod
Russel/Russ
Raymond/Ray
Steven/Steve

I love Herbert (Bertie, Bert, Herb)

Eric
Hayden
Russell
Graham
David

Walter
clarence
douglas
roland
reginald
ivor
sidney
herbert
ernest
raymond
kenneth
graham
eric
frank
frederick
ralph
edgar
john(!)

Winston
Edgar
Harold
Ralph
Derrick
Geoffrey
Cedrick
Norman
Ralph
Arthur
Fredrick

Peter
Lesley
Bruce

Richard
John
Terence (Terry)
Robert
Gordon
Simon
Cecil
Christopher

Cyril
Herbert
Wallace
Hubert

Jim
Bert
Ray

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

Peter
Samuel

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

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

Christopher
Quentin
Leonard

Max

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

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classic and cross-generational, and only by reading MN I realised I must have saddened him with something terribly outdated (he's the only one in his school indeed )

@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.

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 😲

Roger
Ken
Royston
Leonard
Clive
Dennis
Graham
Keith
Maurice
Phillip
Vernon

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

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.

Is that a euphemism you slipped in there? 😆

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 🤣

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