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If you called your child after your grandparents, what would they be?

155 replies

mauvish · 20/08/2023 13:41

Girl - Harriet Maud (I would have been fine with Harriet, but not Maud!)
Boy - Alfred John

My DGD would be Penelope Susan (sounds OK, I think); my DGS would be Simon Sean (not so keen!)

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Sewfrickinamazeballs · 20/08/2023 18:30

Beryl Kathleen
Jozef Dennis

IhearyouClemFandango · 20/08/2023 18:31

Bunty and Peter
Clarisse and ...not sure...

MinnieMountain · 20/08/2023 18:34

Pamela, married soldier, Minerva (would have if I had had a DD), Charles.
DS has the Charles’ middle name as his middle name.

Jk987 · 20/08/2023 18:34

Thorald and Theodora ❤️

Unicorn2022 · 20/08/2023 18:38

Ivy and Thomas
Mary and Thomas

REBM · 20/08/2023 18:44

Myfanwy/ Elizabeth
Leslie/ Thomas
My children.... by chance are named after my great grandparents

yomellamoHelly · 20/08/2023 18:46

Barry / Ernest
Nora / Lorna

Lovelynames123 · 20/08/2023 18:47

Kathleen Elizabeth and Peter John, nothing horrendous...me on the other hand could've been named Ethel Wahlberg!

plehpleh · 20/08/2023 18:50

Janine Shiela

Louis Philip

useitorlose · 20/08/2023 18:59

Ernest Ralph
Margery Eleanor Victoria (sounds much posher than the reality as 1 of 8 children living as a household of ten people in a space designed for 4)

Matilda (don't know if she had a middle name)
Horace John

MumofSpud · 20/08/2023 19:05

Elizabeth (but always known as Betty)
Tom (DS' middle name)

Carolina Violet (DD was nearly Violet but it is her middle name!)
Maurice

Simonjt · 20/08/2023 19:31

Victoria, quite nice and actually you don’t meet many young children called Victoria.

Theoldcuriosityshop · 20/08/2023 19:33

Lilian, Albert
Thomas, Ida.

MojoJojo71 · 20/08/2023 19:41

they’d have the names they have now because I already did

newrubylane · 20/08/2023 19:45

Margaret Fay
John Horace

I'm not so sure about Horace!

beachsandseaicecream · 20/08/2023 19:51

Barbara Margaret
Robert Norman

BorgQueen · 20/08/2023 19:51

Carrie or Ermine.
William or George.

floraswiltingflower · 20/08/2023 19:54

Robert and Elizabeth

CatHeartLovePink · 20/08/2023 20:46

John David Henry Frederick
Gillian Sheela Marie

Have delibrately mixed the names as part of my DC name is in there.

Racingadmin · 20/08/2023 21:14

Shelia Agnes may

Peter Edward George

Andante57 · 20/08/2023 21:17

Mary Sydney
David Edward (Eddie)

PresentPrincess1 · 20/08/2023 22:11

Anne Marie
Clifford Geoffrey

RenoDakota · 20/08/2023 22:16

Laura, Fred, Gertrude, Stanley.

Recycledblonde · 20/08/2023 22:19

Miriam, Harry, Catherine, Edward

RavingStyle · 20/08/2023 22:29

Katherine (Kay) and Violet,
and
Frank and Zenon...

Like them all, but not sure Zenon would work well here in Wales!

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