My first question is this: would it be offensive to name our daughter after some of our grandmothers but not others who are still alive? I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. My husband and I both have one grandmother who has passed and one still alive. I’m not worried about his grandmother because she isn’t as involved in our lives and already has a grandchild with a name very similar to hers. I’m worried that I might hurt my grandmother’s feelings though. Anyways, my husband’s grandmother, whom he actually lived with during part of his childhood was named [name]Eulah[/name] [name]Mae[/name] Kidd (maiden name) and my grandmother was [name]Cleo[/name] [name]Kathleen[/name] [name]Meredith[/name] (maiden name). I am named [name]Meredith[/name] after my grandmother’s maiden name. I’m not exactly crazy about any of the names although I can’t make my mind up about [name]Cleo[/name] mainly because we already have a boy named [name]Casper[/name] and I don’t want to seem like I’m matching their names with C’s. [name]Mae[/name] would be a great middle I think. Can you make any combinations of these names for a girl? Are there any variants we could use? My other grandmother is [name]Bonnie[/name] [name]Lou[/name] but I would never use [name]Bonnie[/name]. Thanks in advance! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
I’d like to add that my great aunt always called my grandmother [name]Clo[/name] instead of [name]Cleo[/name], maybe I could find a name to use [name]Clo[/name] as a nickname? [name]Just[/name] not [name]Chloe[/name] because of the popularity.
[name]Eulah[/name] [name]Mae[/name] Kidd – I would definitely use [name]Mae[/name] as a daughter’s middle name.
[name]Cleo[/name] [name]Kathleen[/name] [name]Meredith[/name] – I like [name]Kathleen[/name], but prefer [name]Katherine[/name], which is close. Instead of [name]Cleo[/name], how about [name]Clara[/name] or [name]Claire[/name]?
For your grandmother [name]Bonnie[/name] [name]Lou[/name], I would use [name]Louisa[/name] as a first name (or [name]Louise[/name] as a middle name).
[name]Clara[/name] [name]Mae[/name]
[name]Clara[/name] [name]Louise[/name]
[name]Louisa[/name] [name]Katherine[/name]
[name]Louisa[/name] [name]Claire[/name]
[name]Louisa[/name] [name]Mae[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name] [name]Mae[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name] [name]Louise[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name] [name]Louisa[/name] [name]Mae[/name]
You can change up [name]Mae[/name] you [name]Maeve[/name] ([name]May[/name]-v) and [name]Lou[/name] to [name]Louisa[/name]
[name]Maeve[/name] [name]Louisa[/name] or [name]Louisa[/name] [name]Maeve[/name] either or would make a great sib-set with [name]Casper[/name]. ([name]Casper[/name] & [name]Maeve[/name] / [name]Casper[/name] & [name]Louisa[/name] )
Here are some ideas:
[name]Cleo[/name]:
[name]Clementine[/name] (though it shares the C initial, and [name]Claudia[/name] Schiffer has [name]Clementine[/name] and [name]Caspar[/name])
[name]Leona[/name]
[name]Leonie[/name]
[name]Leonora[/name]
[name]Leora[/name]
[name]Kathleen[/name]:
[name]Eulah[/name]:
[name]Eulalia[/name]
[name]Eulalie[/name]
[name]Lula[/name]
[name]Tallulah[/name]
[name]Tula[/name]
[name]Mae[/name]:
[name]Margaret[/name]
[name]Margo/name
[name]Marguerite[/name]
Kidd: Hmm… [name]Ida[/name]?
[name]Bonnie[/name]: [name]Bronwen[/name]?
[name]Lou[/name]:
[name]Eloise[/name]
[name]Louisa[/name]
[name]Lucia[/name]
[name]Luciana[/name]
[name]Lucille[/name]
I think that [name]Louisa[/name] would be great! It’s one of the longer versions of [name]Lula[/name] (which rhymes with [name]Eulah[/name]) and [name]Lou[/name], so it would honor two grandmothers with the first name… [name]Louisa[/name] [name]Kathleen[/name], [name]Louisa[/name] [name]Catherine[/name], or [name]Louisa[/name] [name]Cleo[/name] would be pretty ([name]Louisa[/name] [name]Mae[/name]/[name]Maeve[/name], too, but maybe that’s too much of a reference to the author? Not a bad thing, anyways…)…
Good luck!
There is a cute children’s book series following [name]Cleo[/name] (cat) and [name]Caspar[/name] (dog), I can’t remember the author sorry…
With regards to naming, I would find it hard to go past [name]Eulah[/name] [name]Mae[/name] - that is such a great name!!
I love the thought of a [name]Eulah[/name] [name]Kate[/name]. It honors two grandmothers and sounds great. You could call her [name]Lulu[/name], or go by the whole name. Other thoughts:
[name]Eulalie[/name] [name]Clementine[/name]
[name]Lilou[/name] [name]Catherine[/name]
I have a great aunt named [name]Eula[/name] [name]Mae[/name].
Thanks berries! [name]Louisa[/name] [name]Mae[/name] is wonderful! Why couldn’t I come up with that?! [name]Louisa[/name] [name]Kate[/name] is nice too! I’ll definitely run these by the hubs!
Maeleen ([name]Malene[/name], Maelene) as a middle would kill two birds with one stone, and then you could be open to choose whatever first name you wanted.
I love [name]Mae[/name]! That is what I would use
[name]Both[/name] of my children share middle names of a family member (DS1 has FIL’s mn, and DS2 has my dad’s mn). We like it
Mine:
Viriginia [name]Claire[/name]
Violia [name]Marguerite[/name]
[name]Joan[/name]
[name]Claudette[/name]
My son’s
[name]Theresa[/name] [name]Ann[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name] [name]Aileen[/name]