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Eleanor, call her Ellie, like my grandpa called my grandma but it doesn't go with our last name.

Christopher. The name is on both sides of the family.

I love Beatrice with bea as a nickname. It's dhs grandma and he hates it

I love old people names so it's hard to find a family name I don't love.

Grace! Both of my grandmas had that name.

Jewell (grandma's name and my mom's legal name) and Camilla. I may still use Camilla actually. I love it!

@mediagirl: my grandma is Josephine too, but were going to use it as a middle.

DHs mom was Nita, which I tink is pretty cool but couldnt see myself using. His grandma is Evelyn, which is also pretty butnwe already named C after his grandma, so its my sides turn next. Lol

Mabel. I'm still not sure I wouldn't use it. DH and I both had incredible great grandmothers named Mabel - one who raised two sons as a single mother during the depression (not easy!) and one who adopted my grandmother from an orphanage at three years old and changed her life (and therefore mine) completely.

DH's great grandmother was a feisty little French lady named Birdie and I just love it but would never be gutsy enough to use it! If we came up with a good B name it's a strong possibility for a nickname

@TheSwissStyleWife: We have Emma, too, and wouldn't use it due to its popularity--thanks Friends!

I like a lot of these names especially Virginia, Josephine/Josie (our dog's name--kind of wish we saved it for a kid!), Alice, Beatrice, and Virginia.

I have a lot: Gertrude. Patricia. Edward. Maureen. Thomas. Liam. Vincent. Rebecca. Della. Benjamin. Noah.

One great grandmother's name is Eulila, and she went by Lila, and I love it. But, I can't get DH on board with it. I am going to try, again, though, if we have another girl.

Another great grandmother is Ruth, and I like it, but I've seen it used too much, lately.

Lastly, my mom's mom was Audrey, which is a beautiful name, but I don't feel right using it, for some reason...maybe as a middle name, but that's it.

@Shutterbug: I LOVE the name Mabel! Mothers Always Bring Extra Love

@mrs. 64: My LO's name is that A name. It was DH's great-grandmother's name. We often hear, "I haven't heard that name in so long! It was my great-aunt's name." :). Other than DH's ex-gf who has a daughter with the same exact first and middle name, we haven't met any other little As.

So many women in my family are some version of Mary-- Mary, Mary Ann, Maureen, Marie... so I'd love to use some version of Mary as a first name but don't have one I love! We'll use some version of it as a middle name though.

Otherwise we don't have a ton of family names that we'd want to use. Lots of repetition, actually. I would have used my dad's name, Howard, as a middle name, but our last name starts with Ho and I think it's just too much repetition.

DH's grandma's names are Rose and Sophie. I LOVE the name Sophie Rose, but Sophie is waaaaay too popular

My grandfather's name was Harvey and I absolutely LOVE that name. Too bad everyone else hates it and talked us out of using it for LO. =(

Clara, Katherine, Holly, and Hazel are at the top.