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Anne McD
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So many wonderful names!!
I'm just going to throw this one in-- we named our daughter, Katie, after my great grandmother, Catherine Aurelia. After she was born, I noticed in our diocesan paper that she was born within days of St. Aurelian (didn't know there was one!). Also, when I was in college, I happened upon a relic of Blessed Catherine Aurelia, founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Blood of Jesus (I think?), and completely forgot about it until after my little girl was born.
I think she was "supposed" to be named that! 
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My Mom ~ Mary Ellen Jose (pronounced with a J as opposed to an H ~ Josie) Used Mary.
My Dad ~ Bernard Francis used either Bernie (Family) or Barney (work)
dh Mom ~ Jane Marie - used Jane
dh Dad ~ Paul Francis Lawrence - used Paul
dh Step Dad ~ Joseph Woodrow - used Joe
My Grandmothers ~
Violet
Annie
My dh Grandmothers ~
Marie
Catherine
dh step Grandparents ~ Teresa (Tessie) & Anthony (Tony)
Mom's sibs ~ David, Edna, Rita, Rose, Joan, Gloria, Sheila, Cyril & Patrick (Pad)
Dad's sibs ~ Thomas, Mary & Anne Patricia (used Patsy)
MIL sibs ~ John (Jack), Anne, Elizabeth (Bet), Thomas (Tom) & Edward (Ed)
FIL sibs ~ Bernard (Ben), Mary, Joseph (Joe) & Vivien
Step FIL sibs ~ Clinton, John Howard (Howie) & William Jefferson (Billy)
The Great Aunt's that sponsored Mom's arrival in the US ~ Beatrice (Bea) & Winifred (Winny).
The Great Aunt that Dad was close to ~ Bridget (Bride)
My sibs ~ Bernard Francis Patrick (Bernie) Patrick Edward (Pat) & Cyril Michael (Cy).
dh sibs ~ Robert Lawrence (Bob) & step sibs ~ Teresa (Teri) & Kenneth (Kenny)
I love looking into names!
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My parents:
Sara
Elmore
Husband's:
Laura
Ronald
My grandparents:
Virginia & Elmore
Lyna and James
Husband's grandparents:
Laura and Ben (actually a step-grandfather)
Mable and Raymond
My oldest daughter is named for my paternal grandmother's mother, Ada, who died in 1907, when my grandmother was 9, of appendicitis. My grandmother always said that I looked like her. She was Ada Florence; our Ada is Ada Katharine, because the names just seemed to go together.
My 10yo son has my mother's maiden name, Matthews, as his middle name. His first name is Joel, which we just liked.
My 6yo son's name came straight off a family gravestone -- Benjamin Brooks. The original Benjamin Brooks was the patriarch of my mother's family in West TN, migrating there from somewhere in NC in the late 1830s. Benjamin Brooks Thomas is a similarly adventurous kind of person . . . And my husband's maternal grandfather was named Ben, so that was a neat coincidence. Made him happy to have another Ben.
My youngest daughter is Rachel, after my husband's paternal grandfather's mother; her middle names are Emily Holmes. Holmes was my maiden name, and Emily Holmes was the wife of my dad's family's West TN patriarch, also a migrant from NC in the late 1830s, who came west, built a house, then realized that he'd built it in TN, when he wanted to live in Mississippi. So he tore the house down and rebuilt it just over the state line. And Emily didn't shoot him. So that's also who my Rachel is named for. Mostly she goes by Ray, kind of accidentally -- it's how she writes her name, which is easier than "Rachel" -- but my husband's paternal grandfather was named Raymond, and my sister-in-law and niece's middle names are both Ray, so that works out kind of nicely, too.
I love names, too!
Sally
PS -- My name is actually Sara, after my mother, and my brother is named Elmore, after my dad. We were really trying to break the "naming children for their parents" syndrome which is rampant in my family.
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My dh just emailed this to me,
Ethel, Norman, Irene dying out as naming fashion evolves
Posted Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:38pm AEST
Traditional baby names like Ruby, Olivia and Joshua may have enjoyed a revival in recent years, but many old favourites stubbornly refuse to come back into fashion.
Research for a baby website has listed the once-popular names that have suffered the most spectacular fall from grace over the last 100 years.
Top of the boys' list was Norman, which has seen a 99.85 per cent decline in popularity since 1907.
The name, which means "north man" in Old German, grew in popularity after the Norman conquest in 1066.
Walter and Percy came second and third on the list of endangered names.
The biggest faller among the girls was Gertrude, derived from the Old German for "spear maiden".
Edna, Ethel, Irene and Elsie also made the top 10.
But the survey found that not all names are vulnerable to changing tastes.
Thomas, last year's second most popular boy's name, has been in the top five for at least the last 200 years. William has also been in the top 10 for two centuries.
For girls, Elizabeth has been among the favourites for at least 200 years.
Other names have enjoyed a revival under a different guise.
Olive, number seven on the list of declining names, has a direct descendant in Olivia, third most popular last year.
Some old-fashioned names have grown in popularity thanks to celebrity parents.
Singer Charlotte Church called her baby girl Ruby in 2007 - the name was number two on last year's top 10.
Sarah Stone, editor of www.gurgle.com, the mother and baby social networking site that commissioned the study, said some names could disappear altogether.
"Not so long ago it seemed we all knew a Great Uncle Harold or Auntie Irene, but sadly it seems these names could soon be lost forever," she said.
-Reuters
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My grandmothers:
Catherine
Kathryn
DH's
Katarzina (Polish for Catherine, again)
Sophia
My son's grandmothers:
Ann
Judith
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My grandmothers: Virginia Ann and Thelma Lorene. One of my cousins named her second daughter Melissa Lorene and on the other side of the family we have a Melissa Ann. If I had another daughter I would probably use Virginia.
Husband's grandmothers: Bess Lorain and Florencia nmn. Our niece is named Alyssa Lorain.
Various generations of Great-grandmothers on my side: Katharyne Ann, Arabelle, Bessie Hazel, Sarah Jane, Bertha Elizabeth Rose, Ida Belle, Belle, Dorothy Mary. Back among the great aunts we have a Mehitabel and a Mallssie Belle (b. 1891). Don't ask me how it's pronounced!
Great-grandmothers on husband's side: Edna, Flora, Alice, Ione, Elizabeth.
I think most of my ancestors are midwestern, from German-English ancestry. My husband's is the same except for his adoptive father's line; they're Filipino Hawaiian and we don't know anything beyond one set of his father's grandparent's names.
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My grandmothers were Helen and Lucia.
My greatgrandmother was Lowerta and her sister was Laura!
Grandma Lowerta named her daughters Mary, Opal, Grace and Dorothy!
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LeeAnn wrote:
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Various generations of Great-grandmothers on my side: Katharyne Ann, Arabelle, Bessie Hazel, Sarah Jane, Bertha Elizabeth Rose, Ida Belle, Belle, Dorothy Mary. Back among the great aunts we have a Mehitabel and a Mallssie Belle (b. 1891). Don't ask me how it's pronounced!
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Both my maternal grandmother and *her* grandmother were called Arabelle! Two of my grandmothers cousins (sisters) were Ida and Bertha! How's that for neato? We've got some Belgian on my grandmother's side... Mostly were English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish.
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My grandmother's name was Elsie. When i was a teenager, I told her that if I ever had a little girl, I would name her Elsie.
Well, she absolutely forbade it. She said that people "will call her Elsie the cow!".
So, when my daughter was born, we flipped the letters in Elsie to make the name Elise in honor both of my grandmother and her wish that I not name my daughter Elsie.
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My Grandmothers
Mable I don't think I saw that one yet!
She also had 2 sisters
Rosalee & Wauntia Lee (spelling?  )
These are definately DEEP SOUTHERN names!
Margret Mary A great Irish Catolic name
My Grandfathers
Joseph
Edward
Dh Grandmothers
Sarah Frances
Mary Frances
We obviously used Frances for dd middle name
Dh Grandfathers
Finis Martin My ds middle name is Finis pronounced (fine nus) not the latin pronuncation nor was he the last born.
Tom
This is such a hoot Cay. What a refreshing read. 
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My grandparents are
Ruth and Joseph
Carmella Theresa and Joseph
My DH are
Marie and I don't know his grandfather's name (he died when my FIL was a teenager)
Vivian and Joseph
Joseph must have been a popular name .
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Erin wrote:
My dh just emailed this to me,
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Neat article! Since we've almost settled on Walter for our boy name, its nice to know we are part of keeping a dying name alive!
My grandmothers were Lillie Mae and Marie and my Grandfathers were Robert and Richard Lindsay (I'm Lindsay Marie).
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Lindsay
The reason I like Walter is because Anne of Green Gables had a Walter, I love Jem for the same reason. 
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What a neat thread!
My Mom (81 years old):
Teresa Louise
DH's Mom (would be a little older):
Mildred Thronton
Grandmohters:
Charlotte
Vera (Veronica) Susann
Mary Therese
Ethel Marion
Great Grandmothers:
Susann Rosalie
Josephine
Catherine
Anna Steets
Mary Mildred
Our daughters:
MaryEllen Louise
Charlotte Mary Mildred Thornton
Veronica Susann Marye (Marye is also a family name)
I have really enjoyed reading these posts.
ETA: I almost forgot my great-grandmother Teresa Bertha Willamina Schultz. She went by "Jesse." Go figure..
Also my Mom's sisters are Gert, Mary, And Cele. Didn't everyone used to have an Aunt Gert with big ankles?
God bless,
Kristen in TN
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My mawmaw's:
Cora Lee
Mamie Lorena
farther back
Carrie Olevia
Callie(short for California)
Mary Elizabeth
Nancy
Elizabeth
Ann
Alis Catherine
Lavina(went by Vina)
Eliza
She-he-go-li Bushyhead(Cherokee, went by the name of Catherine, and there has been a Catherine every generation since in my family, but I didn't know this till after I birthed a Cath, and did the research!)
Mary America(mother of Will Rogers, and sister to my ggggrandfather)
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Helene -grandmother
Magdalena -grandmother
Judeth Amelia - mother
Martha Ann - husband's mother
I'm ashamed to say that is all I know!
Our daughter- Shaylan Addison Mariah
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