Favorite Grandpa Chic Name?

Since this post got so many responses on the girls forum I thought I’d see what you berries had to say over here in the boys!

Super simple question… What is your favorite “old [name_m]MAN[/name_m]” name? You know the one that sounds like someones grandpa and yet you still love it!

Thanks!

[name_u]Claude[/name_u]
[name_u]Jean[/name_u] [name_m]Baptiste[/name_m]
[name_m]Etienne[/name_m]
[name_m]Zebulon[/name_m]
[name_m]Daniel[/name_m]
[name_m]Felix[/name_m]
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m]
[name_m]Basile[/name_m]
[name_m]Ignace[/name_m]

My favs:

[name_m]Walter[/name_m]
[name_m]Ernest[/name_m]
[name_m]Albert[/name_m]

[name_m]Cecil[/name_m]
[name_m]Hugh[/name_m]
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m]
[name_m]Winston[/name_m]
[name_m]Phineas[/name_m]
[name_u]Hollis[/name_u]
[name_u]August[/name_u]/[name_m]Augustus[/name_m]
[name_m]Simon[/name_m]
[name_m]Timothy[/name_m]
[name_m]Walter[/name_m]
[name_m]Ernest[/name_m]
[name_m]Albert[/name_m] “[name_m]Albie[/name_m]”
[name_m]Ralph[/name_m] “[name_m]Alphie[/name_m]”

I absolutely love “grandpa names.”

My boys’ carry some of my favorites in their middle name spots: [name_u]Vernon[/name_u], [name_u]Stanley[/name_u], and [name_u]Francis[/name_u].

I also have these on my list:
[name_m]Franklin[/name_m]
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m]
[name_m]Phillip[/name_m]
[name_m]Earnest[/name_m]

But I love a large many more!

[name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m]
[name_m]Angus[/name_m]
[name_m]Zeferino[/name_m]

I like:

[name_m]Norman[/name_m]
[name_m]Virgil[/name_m]
[name_u]Stanley[/name_u]
[name_m]Harvey[/name_m]
[name_m]Edwin[/name_m]

[name_m]Walter[/name_m] is my absolute favorite.

[name_m]Albert[/name_m]
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m]
[name_m]George[/name_m] (I know it’s becoming new again, but as it’s my granddad’s name it seems “Grandpa Chic” to me)
[name_m]Hugh[/name_m]
[name_m]Robert[/name_m] (My other granddad’s name :slight_smile: )

I love almost all of them!

[name_u]Howard[/name_u], [name_m]Norman[/name_m], [name_u]Glen[/name_u], [name_m]Henry[/name_m], [name_m]Gordon[/name_m], [name_m]Arthur[/name_m], [name_m]Walter[/name_m], [name_m]Chester[/name_m], [name_m]Nestor[/name_m], [name_u]Stanley[/name_u], [name_m]Morton[/name_m], [name_m]Marvin[/name_m], [name_m]Hector[/name_m], [name_m]Josiah[/name_m], [name_m]Ward[/name_m], [name_u]Wallace[/name_u], [name_m]Fred[/name_m], [name_m]Hiram[/name_m], you name it.

I do have a soft spot for [name_u]Stanley[/name_u], would call him [name_m]Stan[/name_m], [name_m]Stanislas[/name_m], [name_m]Constant[/name_m], [name_u]Constantine[/name_u], [name_m]Dunstan[/name_m], [name_m]Stanford[/name_m], etc.

[name_u]August[/name_u]
[name_m]Felix[/name_m]
[name_m]Gaspard[/name_m]
[name_m]Archibald[/name_m]
[name_m]Oscar[/name_m]
[name_m]Ernest[/name_m]
[name_m]Gustave[/name_m]
[name_m]Henry[/name_m]
[name_m]Alistair[/name_m]
[name_m]Harold[/name_m]
[name_m]Angus[/name_m]
[name_m]Alfred[/name_m]

And maybe:
[name_m]Emile[/name_m]
[name_m]Basile[/name_m]
[name_m]Anatole[/name_m]
Arsene
[name_m]Theodore[/name_m]
[name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]

[name_m]Alfred[/name_m]! Always [name_m]Alfred[/name_m]!
And [name_m]Albert[/name_m],
[name_m]Edwin[/name_m],
[name_m]Theodore[/name_m],
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m], and
[name_m]Wilfred[/name_m]!

[name_m]Morris[/name_m], [name_u]Francis[/name_u], [name_m]Gerald[/name_m], [name_m]Bertram[/name_m], [name_m]Dougal[/name_m], [name_u]Wallace[/name_u], [name_m]Walter[/name_m], [name_m]Humphrey[/name_m], [name_m]Abraham[/name_m], [name_m]Basil[/name_m], [name_m]Amos[/name_m], [name_m]Herb[/name_m], [name_m]Rufus[/name_m], [name_m]Frank[/name_m], [name_m]Franklin[/name_m], [name_m]Hal[/name_m].

[name_m]Abraham[/name_m]
[name_u]Howard[/name_u]
[name_m]Graham[/name_m]
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m]
[name_m]Raymond[/name_m]
[name_m]Chester[/name_m]
[name_u]Noel[/name_u]
[name_m]Gordon[/name_m]
[name_m]Hugh[/name_m]

[name_m]Walter[/name_m]
[name_m]Calvin[/name_m]
[name_m]Clyde[/name_m]
[name_m]Franklin[/name_m] (okay, this is one that I wouldn’t use, but it makes me think of an adorable little old grandpa lol)

Funny, I used to really dislike these types of names, but they sure grew on me!

[name_m]Walter[/name_m] is the first one I think of!

But also:
[name_u]Stanley[/name_u]
[name_u]Gus[/name_u]
[name_m]Frank[/name_m]
[name_u]Wallace[/name_u]
[name_u]Sidney[/name_u]
[name_m]Ike[/name_m]
[name_m]Lowell[/name_m]
[name_m]Errol[/name_m]
[name_m]Rupert[/name_m]
[name_u]Ray[/name_u]

[name_m]Solomon[/name_m]
[name_m]Harvey[/name_m]
[name_m]Walter[/name_m]
[name_m]Duncan[/name_m]
[name_m]Monty[/name_m] or [name_m]Montgomery[/name_m]

[name_m]Walter[/name_m], [name_m]Edmund[/name_m], [name_m]Arthur[/name_m], [name_u]Laurence[/name_u], [name_u]Sidney[/name_u], [name_m]Victor[/name_m], [name_m]Earnest[/name_m]

And [name_m]Ferdinand[/name_m], [name_m]Leopold[/name_m], [name_m]Llewellyn[/name_m], [name_m]Lysander[/name_m], [name_m]Leander[/name_m], [name_m]Conrad[/name_m], [name_m]Booker[/name_m]!

All my boys names are old man names!

My oldest son’s name is [name_m]Paul[/name_m] and when he was a baby lots of people said their dad or uncle or grandpa was named [name_m]Paul[/name_m]. So that’s my favorite.

I really like [name_u]Rudy[/name_u] and [name_m]Hubert[/name_m]