Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Granny/Grandad names - for inspiration...

136 replies

sunchild77 · 26/06/2010 17:09

I quite like the trend for old names at the moment, So Just a quick survey : What where your grandparents names?

Me:-Robert
Robert Alexander
Gladys Margaret
Jeannie

DH - Murdoch
Sidney
Dorothy Madeline
Helen

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
bran · 26/06/2010 17:21

Sally
Ralph (pronounced Rafe)
Laurence
Evelyn (pronounced Eve Lynn, not Ev-lyn)

I don't know about DH's side.

LilQueenie · 26/06/2010 17:23

Marcin
Davina
John
Margaret (pearl)

sunchild77 · 26/06/2010 17:24

OOh Pearl is nice

OP posts:
thesecondcoming · 26/06/2010 17:25

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

notquitenormal · 26/06/2010 17:25

Mine were

Dorothy
Alexander
Margaret
Thomas

and because we're a complicated family I also have Joan & Leslie

mumofeightplusfour · 26/06/2010 17:25

william
gladys wanted for dd4 but vetoed by dh
orissa
james

IngridFletcher · 26/06/2010 17:25

Alice
Eric

Hilda
Edward

juneybean · 26/06/2010 17:28

Joseph
Janice
Joan
Minnie
Eric

dwpanxt · 26/06/2010 17:30

Peter + Mary
Cathleen (spelled with a C)+John

Harold + Dorothy
Lydia + Harry

ShowOfHands · 26/06/2010 17:32

Colin Frederick, Muriel Irene, Margaret.

Have been researching my family tree though and going back to the early 1700s onwards, here are a handful...

Theopholis
Walter
Josiah
Alfred
Horace
Albert
Herbert
Geo
Edwin
Orlando
Wash ington
Everard
Godfrey
Matilda
Miriam
Edith
Esther
Sabria
Gwendoline
Lucinda
Nanette
Chri stabel
Sylvie

Granny23 · 26/06/2010 17:34

ME
Margaret
George

Margaret
Alexander

DH
Margaret
John

Margaret
James

No surprise then that my sister, DD1 and DGD2 all have Margaret in their names!

sunchild77 · 26/06/2010 17:35

OOOh thanks showofhands
Its just so nice to see a list of "different" names... although Id expect to see a few faces if we called DC3 Theopholis..LOL

OP posts:
jeanjeannie · 26/06/2010 17:42

Edward and Ina
Horace and Daisy

DP's grandparents were from Serbian & Belarus - so I'll give spelling those a miss! My mum is an Ethel May and her sister a Muriel ...might want to give those a wide berth too!

Nando95 · 26/06/2010 17:48

Glenys
Brian
Thelma
Ernest-john (Jack)

Him

Margaret-Rose
John
Sarah
Edward

Go on I know you wanna go with the name Thelma

sunchild77 · 26/06/2010 17:54

Nando -Unfortunately Thelma just doesnt go with our surname... ;)

OP posts:
notagrannyyet · 26/06/2010 18:00

John & Florence
Elizabeth & Albert also Henry

Beatrice & Albert
Alice & Henry(Harry)

letsblowthistacostand · 26/06/2010 18:05

Lois
Shirley
Clayton
John
Margaret
William

meadowlarks · 26/06/2010 18:08

Jock and May
Louis and Patricia

schroeder · 26/06/2010 18:21

My Grandparents:
Margaret and Edgar
Frank and Gladys

DH's Granny is Lila which is lovely[Grin]

emmyloo2 · 26/06/2010 18:32

Edward and Audrey
Marion and George

harley85 · 26/06/2010 18:32

Dorothy + Samuel
Irene + Harry
Pamala + George

Raahh · 26/06/2010 18:52

Me- Peter, florence ( Peter for Ds's mid name), really wanted Florence for dd2)
Francis (frank) Doreen (no plans to use either! Gran and Mum both called Doreen, neither are offended)

Raahh · 26/06/2010 18:53

used Peter

MercyMe · 26/06/2010 19:01

Me

Henrietta (it's beginning to grow on me)
Jack
Eion
Dorothy

DH

Sheila
Tom
Susan
Alexander

Tillyscoutsmum · 26/06/2010 19:02

Mine were

Matilda
Lesley
Margaret
Raymond

DH's

Caroline
Rennie
Andrew
Elsie