I've totally stolen this from the BNB but I loved the responses and wanted to see what everyone had to say here.
The OP pointed out that older names are becoming more popular but encouraged others to reach way back for great, great great or even great great great grandparent first names. What are yours?
Great Grandparents:
Ernest & Lydia Myrtle
Pearl (Gpa) & Della AND Georgie (2nd wife)
Bernice (unmarried)
Dale & Annie
Great Great Grandparents:
Algon & ...whatever his wife's name was O_o
Gillie & ...whatever her husband's name was O_o

Re: Grandparents Names
Norman and Hilda
Willard and Eleanor
John and Hannah
Bereget and Ole
Grandparents:
Dorothy and Harold
Lois and John
Norman and Helen
Carrol and Delaine
Parents:
Jack and Jill
Tom and Wanda
Great Grandparents: Mary, Edna and Ralph
Grandparents: Barbara Jean and Robert Benjamin, Clara and William, Imogene and Sylvester, Lawrence and Wilhelmina
If this baby is a boy...Lawrence will be the MN.
ClrkKntismyAE Mamie Love?! That is FABULOUS!
mrsodonnell12 Jack and Jill?! Shut it right up! That's awesome for other reasons lol.
Parents- Theresa & Philip
Gloria & Jim
Grandparents- Angelina & Catello
Betty & Artie
Jackie & John
I don't know great grandparents but now im intrigued and will try to find out tonight. Angelina is my top name for a girl. This LO is a boy but if the next is a girl i'd love to use it.
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Parents: Laura & Lloyd or Laura and Matthew
Grandparents: Mercedes & Salvador
Great Grandparents:
Juanita & Ramon
Angelina & Francisco
Great grandparents
Anna and Feoder
Flora and Arthur
Viola and Clarence
Minnie and Benjamin
Grandparents
Loren and Martha
Duane and Carmen
Great Grandparents
Helen, Evelyn, Mary Jane, Burl (I only knew a few of them)
Grandparents
Elizabeth, Ralph, Betty, Burl
Parents
Virginia, Kenneth
(Our daughter will be named Kenna Elizabeth after my dad and my maternal grandmother
)
Me 32 and DH 40
Fur-baby named Bella
1 MC Nov. 2013
DD born Nov. 2, 2014
Little 2 EDD Oct. 1
Great grandparents:
Thekla and Carl Christian
Mary and Carl
Lily and Andrew
(having a memory loss on my father's mother's parents - will have to look it up)
Grandparents:
Helen and Andrew Laurence (Laurie)
Grethe and Axel
But, I absolutely loved hearing stories about my mother's parents' "set". All the couples had great nicknames. There was Babs and Chick; Fran and Bud; Dot and Burt...
Forgot parents:
Eivind and Judy
I don't know all my great grandparents names.
Grandparents are
Lena and Lester
Shirley and Edwin (ed)
My grandma Shirleys moms name is Hazel. I am preeety sure....if I was listening correctly that my Grandma Lenas dads name was Paul.
Thats all I know.
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Me 32-DH 38
Married July 14, 2007 ----- TTC # 1 October 1, 2013
BFP March 7, 2014 ----- EDD November 17, 2014 ---- Baby boy born November 16, 2014
@NLJ82 - Was Gillie short for something or the full name? I like it!
Grandparents: Elmer Paris, Mary Ellan, Michael Cecil, Norma Lucille
Parents: James Eugene, Cindy Jo
DD shares a middle name with my mother. this LO will be named after my dad and grandfather. James Paris for this girl.
Parents: Darla and David
Inlaws: Marsene and Rod
Grandparents:
Helen and Casmer
Wilda and Albert
Elizabeth and William
Great grandparents:
Only remember a Mary
Grandparents: Frederick, Mary Lucille (she went by Lucy), Andrew and Phyllis
Great Grandparents: Fred & Wilma, Flora & Bernard, and.... ???? (embarrassed that I don't know- but in my defense I never met my great grandparents on my dad's side)
If I had a girl I was going to do Lucille as a middle name. Considering Drew for a boy but wasn't particularly close to that side of the family. I love "old" names though!!
Parents:
Patrick and Brenda
Grandparents:
John and Marcella (Sally), Wendell and Betty
Great grands:
Tony (Anton), Ava, Peter, Enid
Regina and Edwin (Ed)
Mary and George
Grandparents:
Olga Theresa and James (Jim..."James" is a big family name: my uncle, my brother, etc.)
Grace and Harry
Palmeda and Francis (Frank)
Theresa and Tiberio (Tim)
Great Grandparents:
Not sure about DH's, but mine are...
Angelina and (ex-hubby, don't know his name)
Ellen and Kieran (my nephew's name, too!)
Fanny Lacey (can't remember if she's my grandpa or my grandma's mom...also don't remember who she was married to)
Edwin Abel ("Abel" is a also a family first name in previous generations, as well...also don't remember who he was married to)
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Throwback: Hubby and I on our first date (Nov 2007), and then again on our wedding day (Nov 2012)
Martha
Our parents:
Craig, Carol, Frank, Cynthia
Our Grandparents:
William, Pamela, Carol, Robert, Frank, Mary, Edward, MaryAnn
Our Great-Grandparents:
Charles, Ethel, Alfred, Kate, Charles, Frances, Benjamin, Elsie, Frank, Helen, Ferdinando, Sylvia, Louis, Edith, Theodore, Helen
Our Great-Great Grandparents:
William, Elsbeth, William, Pauline, Frederick, Frances, William, Fanny, Patrick, MaryAnne, James, Anna, Max, Hannah, Harry, Frederika, Florence, Domenico, Francesca, James, Clement, Maria, Antonio, Carmella, William, Margaret, Annie, Charles, Joseph, Anna, George, Anna
mine: Carla, Robert
Our Grandparents:
William and Kathleen, (no idea who my paternal grandparents are, but my step-grandparents were Vernetta and Jay), James, Martha, Jackie, Richard
Our Great-Grandparents:
Grace is all I have for the greats.
My grandparents were Bernard & Louise, Florence & Carl
And great grandparents I knew were Henrietta, Helene, Sylvia, and Lou. We also have a great uncle Saul which is pretty much the best name ever
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On my Mama's side:
Great Grandparents:
Mary Adel and James Robert
Grandparents:
Mary Lou and Richard Eugene
Parents:
Jean Marie and Hector
Mine and Husband:
Sara Jean and Nicklas James
LO's middle name will be James, named after my father in law and my great grandfather. Still not 100% on LO's first name.
my happy boy
Howie and Deborah
Laura and Warren
Gladys and Douglas
DH grandparents:
Alvin and Eva
Erich and Norine
DS has Alvin Howard as his middle names. Not sure about this little one yet!
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