Feed my old person name fetish, please!! Not pregnant, just crazy 
Between DH and I, we have: Daniel, Mary, Rita, Dorothy, Henry, William, Edward, and Jean. My great grandma was Marcella. I love the idea of naming a child after a grandparent but not crazy about my options.
cantaloupe / 6059 posts
Jay, Beverly, James, Claris, Geraldine, Herman, and my DH's other two who I am struggling to remember
grapefruit / 4649 posts
We have Catherine, Beatrice, Jeanne and Suzanne for females. Edward, Joseph, and two John's (I think... One went by an obscure nickname.)
Our daughter is named after two of the grandmothers with an obscure nickname. It worked well since it was both of them plus my late father's initials.
grapefruit / 4649 posts
@coopsmama: I'm glad I'm not the only one who struggled! I felt really guilty there for a minute!
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
Oops, our grandparents not parents. I only know mine...Frances, Stackley, Frank, Margaret.
We won't pass down first names of the grands or great grands.
coconut / 8472 posts
Mine are: Shirley, William, Harriet and David. I actually don't know any of DH's, they all passed away before he really knew any of them.
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
Nancy, Patricia, William, Judson, Ann, Robert, Herman.
Other cool names of our ancestors: Elizabeth, Ralph, Germaine, Percival, Elsie, Nell, Nettie, Leona, Ida, Ulysses.
honeydew / 7622 posts
Catherine, Clayton, Dorothy, William, Valerie, Jean, Jack (don't even know his real name), Francis, Charlotte.
coconut / 8279 posts
My grandparents are Daniel & Gertrude and Gerald and Natalie.
DH never knew his grandparents but I know one grandfather was Carl and a grandmother was Josephine.
If his father were alive today he would be 102, he was Reuben and his mother (85) is Maud.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Charlotte
Albin
Florence
Adam
Dimple
Alton
Linda
Dale
Sylvia
Mary Will
Ralph
honeydew / 7504 posts
Mine: Frederick and Catherine, Audrey and James
Hubs': Miriam and Lou, Jennie and Dominic
My great-grandmother was Margaret, which is my middle name.
pear / 1955 posts
@Mrs. Pickle: Albin and Dimple!
Ours are:
Ethel
Telford
Joseph
Verna Mae
James
Vivian
Harry
Edna
nectarine / 2465 posts
Joan, John, Catherine, Albert, DH doesn't know his grandparents names!!
pineapple / 12793 posts
Mary Jane, Enrique, Martha, Ricardo, John Henry, Margaret, William, Ella
pomegranate / 3858 posts
We have Barbara, Ernest, Isobel, Hugh, Marjorie (I don't know the rest of DH's grandparents' names as they were gone a long time before I came around). I like Isobel a lot!
cherry / 220 posts
We have Virginia, Duane, Lester, Jacqueline, Louis, Inge, and Donald. My husband never met one of his grandmothers as she died when his mother was a teenager and he actually doesn't even know her name.
clementine / 811 posts
Hm, I don't know DH's but mine are Rose, John, Thomas and Margaret--but she went by her middle name Bernice/Bunny.
pomegranate / 3973 posts
@LovelyPlum: I love Marcella!
Ours are Irene, Delphene, Darlene, Jean (I'm seeing a pattern), Phyllis, Patricia, Bonnie.
Charles Edward (x2), John, Peter, David, Clarence.
I'd like to use Irene or Jeanie as a middle name for a girl.
Middle Charlie for a boy (also my dad's name).
eggplant / 11824 posts
I only know/can remember some of them:
Gordon, Robert, Frank
Alma, Helen, Aurora
olive / 59 posts
Mine (Quebecois):
Leotine
Leopold
Berthile
Emilien
DHs:
Lillian
William
Doris
Walter
persimmon / 1322 posts
We have a lot of remarrying. We have:
Lydia
Steven
Gayle
Anita
June Robert (bob)
Virginia
David
Clara Margaret (Peggy)
persimmon / 1114 posts
Elizabeth (x2), Mary, George, Joseph, Harry, Francis and Matilda
One of those is my name, one of those is my son's name and another was a top contender if we had a girl.
pomegranate / 3032 posts
Mine are Carmen, Gemma, Thomas, and Marlene
His are William, Edna, James, Edna
if we have a boy the name will be William Thomas. We considered Carmen and Gemma for our daughter.
theres actually quite a few great names in my great aunts - like Emelia (her nn was Millie)
nectarine / 2132 posts
Mine: Lois, Charles, Edna & Leonard
His: Shirley, Carlton, Mildred & Herschel.
honeydew / 7230 posts
@LovelyPlum: My mom's name is Marcella! She goes by Marcie. She was named after my grandpa's favorite cow as a little boy, haha.
Mine: Georgia (went by her middle name - Arlene), Wilfred, Don, and Donna
DH's: Beatrice (went by her middle name - Juanita), Lesley (male), Mary, and Leonard
cherry / 235 posts
Mine: Audrey, James, Pauline, Lawrence
DH: Patricia, James, Margaret, Otto
pomelo / 5509 posts
I have Harry and Nellie, and Gene and Phyllis. The only one I'd potentially use in there, or some version of it, is Nellie, but my sister already "claimed" it.
DH has Madeline and Clifford, and Malcolm and...?? I can't remember. They all passed away before I met him. He loves and wants to use Madeline and Malcolm. Maybe for middle names...
pear / 1657 posts
Helen
Marian
Ernst
Merlyn
Virginia
Elizabeth
Harry
Roland
I'd love to use Helen (or Helena) or Virginia.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
Mine are hella ethnic but DH had Ron, Larry, I think Barbara, and Jolene. I love Jolene!
pineapple / 12566 posts
I had a Joanne and James. On my dad's side I'm actually not sure what my grandparents' first names were (they were Chinese, living overseas).
My husband had a Louis, Henri, Fernande (female), and I can't remember the other grandmother.
nectarine / 2797 posts
Marjorie, Donald, Vernon, Dolores, Estelle, Alice, Charles, and one I can't remember. Marjorie is DDs MN.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
@raspberries: haha, I've never met or heard of anyone else with their names.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
I am named for my grandmother, I guess that means i have an old person name, lol. I can't post it though.
I'll post the English versions of what we have though on both sides: Max x 2, Michael, Ralph, Joanne, Sylvia, Elizabeth.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Mine:
Ann
Timothy
Holly
Gordon
D's:
Rachel
Howard
Grace
Dave
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