I would just love to hear your grandparents’ names (and maybe some background info on where they were from/how they were named/etc). Whether it’s one grandparent, your three times great grandparent, I want to hear it all! 
[name_f]My[/name_f] maternal grandparents:
[name_u]Max[/name_u] [name_m]Herbert[/name_m]
[name_f]Barbara[/name_f] [name_f]Ann[/name_f]
[name_f]My[/name_f] maternal great-grandparents:
[name_m]Herbert[/name_m] [name_m]Hardy[/name_m]
[name_f]Edna[/name_f] [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f] [name_f]Francesca[/name_f] [name_u]Maria[/name_u]
[name_u]Florence[/name_u] [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u]
[name_u]William[/name_u] [name_u]Vester[/name_u]
Other maternal great+ grandparents:
[name_u]Maria[/name_u] [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f]
[name_f]Berdie[/name_f] [name_u]Franklin[/name_u]
[name_f]Luella[/name_f] [name_f]Clementine[/name_f]
[name_u]William[/name_u] [name_u]Spencer[/name_u]
[name_u]Elias[/name_u] [name_m]Ford[/name_m]
[name_u]Jasper[/name_u] Blakemore
[name_f]Ruth[/name_f] [name_f]Catherine[/name_f]
[name_f]My[/name_f] paternal grandparents:
Garnier [name_m]Grant[/name_m]
[name_u]Joyce[/name_u] [name_f]Edna[/name_f]
[name_f]My[/name_f] paternal great-grandparents:
[name_m]Alfred[/name_m] [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m]
[name_f]Mathilda[/name_f]
[name_u]John[/name_u] [name_m]Anton[/name_m]
[name_f]Caroline[/name_f] [name_u]Marie[/name_u]
Maternal Grands:
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f] [name_u]Louise[/name_u]
[name_u]Robert[/name_u] [name_u]Francis[/name_u] (father of her second set of kids)
[name_u]John[/name_u] [name_m]Richard[/name_m] (the father of her first set kids - including my mom)
Paternal Grands:
[name_f]Michelle[/name_f] [name_u]Marie[/name_u] [name_f]Marcella[/name_f]
[name_u]Michael[/name_u] Garen
Various Great+ Grands:
[name_u]Hazel[/name_u] [name_f]Marianne[/name_f]
[name_u]Max[/name_u] (yes, ‘just’ Max!)
[name_u]Jean[/name_u]
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] ‘Lil’
[name_f]Irene[/name_f] ‘Reenie’
[name_u]Carmen[/name_u]
[name_f]Renée[/name_f]
[name_m]Frank[/name_m]
[name_f]Catherine[/name_f] [name_f]Barbara[/name_f] ‘Barb’
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m] [name_u]Lawrence[/name_u] ‘Fred’
[name_u]Jack[/name_u] [name_u]Robert[/name_u]
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[name_f]My[/name_f] grandpa is “just” [name_u]Max[/name_u] too
I LOVE Reenie as a nickname for [name_f]Irene[/name_f]! And [name_u]Jack[/name_u] [name_u]Robert[/name_u] is so beautifully classic!
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My maternal grands (both european): Stefan & Inge
Maternal great grands: Emil & Mathilde , Leo & Maria
My paternal grands (both south American): Enzo & Leonor
Paternal great grands: Lilia & John
(Not sure on middles since I don’t really have much contact sadly)
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~ maternal grandparents:
[name_m]Kraig[/name_m] [name_u]Taylor[/name_u]
[name_f]Jeannette[/name_f] (no middle name)
~ paternal grandparents:
[name_f]Melody[/name_f] [name_u]Kay[/name_u]
[name_u]Glen[/name_u] [name_u]Andre[/name_u]
I’m pretty sure on my dad’s side, I have great grandparents named DeeOn, [name_m]Leonard[/name_m], (Melody’s parents) [name_f]Mary[/name_f] and [name_u]Lawrence[/name_u] (Glen’s parents). And on my mom’s side I have great grandparents named [name_u]Clyde[/name_u] and [name_f]Thelma[/name_f] (Kraig’s parents) and [name_u]Joseph[/name_u], [name_f]Patricia[/name_f] and [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] ‘Betty’ (Jeannette’s parents and step-mom.)
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Yours have a wonderful set of names!
[name_u]Max[/name_u] [name_m]Herbert[/name_m], [name_f]Berdie[/name_f] [name_u]Franklin[/name_u], [name_f]Luella[/name_f] [name_f]Clementine[/name_f], [name_m]Herbert[/name_m] [name_m]Hardy[/name_m], [name_u]Elias[/name_u] [name_m]Ford[/name_m], [name_u]Jasper[/name_u] Blakemore, and [name_f]Mathilda[/name_f] are so cool! (Luella, [name_u]Elias[/name_u] and [name_u]Jasper[/name_u] feel like very-berry combos 
)
I won’t include my two living grandparents’ names, but my great grandparents were called [name_m]Peter[/name_m] and [name_f]Thelma[/name_f], and my grandfather on my dad’s side was [name_u]Lindsey[/name_u] (not his actual first name). I don’t know anymore than that I’m afraid
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All of my grandparents got divorced and remarried, so I have 8 instead of 4.
[name_f]Darlene[/name_f] [name_f]Ann[/name_f] <-her father said she looked darling when she was born
[name_m]Albert[/name_m] [name_u]George[/name_u] “Al” <-I believe he was named after family but not sure
[name_u]Charles[/name_u] “Charlie” <-I believe his middle name was [name_m]Richard[/name_m]. Named after his father [name_u]Charles[/name_u].
[name_f]Patricia[/name_f] [name_f]Gail[/name_f] “Gail” <-I do not know where her name comes from but she goes by her middle name exclusively
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] “Liz” <-surprisingly I don’t remember her middle name and I should know this lol
[name_m]Norman[/name_m] [name_u]Joseph[/name_u] <-junior
Smiley <-withholding middle name out of privacy (very unique), but he is a third. Somewhat happy that name didn’t keep getting passed on (although the initials did)
[name_u]Jean[/name_u] [name_f]Ann[/name_f] <-I believe this is her first and middle name and she goes by both as a double-barrel
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Okay!
All of my great grandparents are from [name_f]Russia[/name_f] and Jewish and all grandparents are first generation Russian descendants. That being said, the great grandparents may have been born with other names, but I don’t know for sure.
Paternal great grandparents:
[name_f]Nellie[/name_f] & [name_u]Sol[/name_u]
Paternal grandparents:
[name_f]Pauline[/name_f] & [name_u]Joseph[/name_u]
Maternal great grandparents:
[name_f]Pearl[/name_f] & [name_m]Morris[/name_m]
[name_f]Rose[/name_f] & [name_m]Nathan[/name_m]
Maternal grandparents
[name_f]Annette[/name_f] & [name_m]Albert[/name_m] [name_m]Leonard[/name_m] (only middle name I know!)
I really love the names [name_f]Nellie[/name_f], [name_f]Pearl[/name_f] & [name_m]Albert[/name_m] the most to use on children in real life.
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[name_u]John[/name_u] and [name_f]Judy[/name_f]
[name_u]Murray[/name_u]
[name_f]Kae[/name_f] (her middle name that she went by, her first was [name_f]Roberta[/name_f], after her father [name_u]Robert[/name_u], who abandoned her when she was six)
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[name_f]Luella[/name_f] [name_f]Clementine[/name_f] is wonderful! It sounds like it came straight from a berry UC 
I’m also a fan of [name_u]Jasper[/name_u] Blakemore and [name_u]Maria[/name_u] [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f].
[name_f]Edna[/name_f] [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f] [name_f]Francesca[/name_f] [name_u]Maria[/name_u] curiously reminds me of a great-grandmother of mine, named [name_f]Erna[/name_f] [name_f]Lina[/name_f] [name_f]Wilhelmine[/name_f] ___ (Third middle name). I also had a great-great-grandmother named [name_f]Dorothea[/name_f] ___ [name_f]Karoline[/name_f], who used her middle name of [name_f]Karoline[/name_f].
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[name_f]My[/name_f] grandparents’ names:
Maternal:
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] “Betsy” [name_u]Miller[/name_u] (maiden name Hamilton)-- 1942-2021; born and grew up in [name_m]Washington[/name_m] DC, her mother was named [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] Brunsteader and was from Pennsylvania, her father was from Massachusetts ; [name_m]German[/name_m]. Scottish, and [name_f]English[/name_f]
[name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_m]Kent[/name_m] “Kent” Miller-- b.1940; born and grew up in [name_m]Washington[/name_m] DC; I’m not sure where he’s from 100%, probably mostly [name_f]English[/name_f]?
Paternal:
[name_f]Clara[/name_f] Zelenak (maiden name Kovak)-- b.1947; born and lives in [name_u]West[/name_u] [name_u]Lorne[/name_u], Ontario; her parents were from Hungary and her middle name is Zsofie
[name_u]Edward[/name_u] “Ed” Zelenak-- b.1940; born and lives in [name_u]West[/name_u] [name_u]Lorne[/name_u], Ontario; his parents were from Slovakia; the last name Zelenak means “Green”
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Names in my grandparents’ generation of the family (born in the 30s)…
Barbara
Ida
Maureen
Dorothy
Geoffrey
Michael
Stanley
John
Peter
Names in my great grandparents’ generation (born in the 1900-1910s)…
Emma nn Emmy
Helen nn Nellie
Ethel
Hilda
Lillian
Marjorie
John
Philip
Stephen
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I’m not going to share first + middle for privacy reasons. [name_f]My[/name_f] paternal grandparents were [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] (Sam) and [name_f]Barbara[/name_f]. [name_f]Barbara[/name_f] and her sister both had common/trendy names and middle names for their birth era and no known meaning so I’m guessing my great-grandparents just liked the names. [name_u]Sam[/name_u] was [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] [name_m]Jr[/name_m]. after his father. [name_f]My[/name_f] maternal grandparents were [name_m]Gerald[/name_m] (Gerry) and [name_f]Johanna[/name_f] (Joann). [name_f]My[/name_f] grandpa’s mother was a very, very proud [name_u]Irish[/name_u] American and my grandma’s family were [name_m]German[/name_m]. She was named after her grandma [name_f]Johanna[/name_f] but always went by the Americanized version of the name.
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Maternal
[name_f]Auriel[/name_f] [name_u]Gay[/name_u]
[name_u]Edward[/name_u] “Ted” (I don’t know if he had a middle name)
Paternal:
[name_f]Patricia[/name_f] “Patty” [name_u]Anne[/name_u]
[name_u]James[/name_u] “Jim” [name_u]Howard[/name_u]
now here is where things get complicated, I only know the names of my paternal grandmothers parents.
[name_u]Howard[/name_u] Elburn, he wet by Elburn
[name_u]June[/name_u] [name_u]Marie[/name_u]
I do know my maternal grandmothers name was [name_f]Camila[/name_f] though and I know she went by [name_f]Cami[/name_f]
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Paternal Grandparents:
[name_m]Ian[/name_m] [name_u]David[/name_u] - Don’t know
[name_u]June[/name_u] [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] - [name_u]June[/name_u] is because she was born in [name_u]June[/name_u]
Maternal Grandparents:
[name_m]Avon[/name_m] [name_u]Earl[/name_u] - Prefers to be called [name_u]Earl[/name_u].
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] [name_u]Anne[/name_u] - Went by Lizzy/Lizzie
Not sure why they were named what they were named but the names [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f], [name_u]Anne[/name_u] and [name_u]David[/name_u] got passed on to children
Some of my ancestors’ names:
Roses [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f]
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f] [name_f]Bel[/name_f]
[name_u]Esme[/name_u] [name_f]Eunice[/name_f]
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m] [name_u]John[/name_u]
[name_f]Isabella[/name_f] [name_f]Theresa[/name_f]
[name_f]Catherine[/name_f] [name_f]Winifred[/name_f]
[name_u]Joseph[/name_u] [name_u]Charles[/name_u]
[name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] [name_f]Maude[/name_f]
All of my grandparents are gone, but I love their names! We have some namesakes in the family, and I think we need more! I don’t know all the information about my great-grandparents off the top of my head. 
Maternal grandparents:
[name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] & [name_m]Philip[/name_m] “Phil” [name_u]Joseph[/name_u]
Maternal great-grandparents:
[name_u]Joseph[/name_u] & Margariette
[name_u]Joseph[/name_u] & [name_f]Grace[/name_f]
Paternal grandparents:
[name_u]Ellis[/name_u] [name_f]Laverne[/name_f] and [name_f]Patricia[/name_f] [name_u]Jo[/name_u] (my grandfather went by [name_u]Lou[/name_u] in the [name_f]Air[/name_f] Force, where he met my grandmother. She later went by [name_f]Patty[/name_f] or [name_f]Patty[/name_f] Jo.) I don’t know much about her parents.
Paternal great grandparents:
[name_u]Max[/name_u] (just Max!! 
) [name_m]Landers[/name_m] & [name_f]Myrtle[/name_f]
[name_u]Max[/name_u] was almost my brother’s name! One of my dad’s cousins used the name for one of her sons. He is younger than we are!
