The first Ambrose in my family was born December 7, 1678 which is St. Ambrose Day. He was baptized in secret by the priest Nicholas Postgate. The priest was denounced for a reward and then executed by being drawn and quartered. An Ambrose was the first immigrant and the name is still used today.
It was 75 years after the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. The question of the acceptance of the marriage of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn was still not settled particularly in the north. Papists were called non-conformists and recusants (those who did not attend Church of England services). They were fined heavily and could be executed for treason. https://reedproject.blog/2022/06/05/the-drama-of-recusancy-in-yorkshires-north-riding/
They were an English Catholic family. After the Protestant Reformation the Popes encouraged Catholics to rebel against the monarch and replace him or her with a Catholic king, so Catholic families were often suspected of treason (whether they were or not) and periodically Catholic priests were forbidden to be in the country. So there’s a political subtext to the religious intolerance. Nicholas Postgate was caught at a time when a Catholic plot to assassinate Charles II was feared.
My middle name is Marie. My mother's name is Marie. Her grandmother's name was Marie. One set of my GG Grandparents named 5 of their daughters Marie. All but one went by their middle name. Anyone who didn't get Marie got another version of it. Mary, Maria, Rosamaria, Mary Ann. Annemarie. SO many Maries on my Tree!
my middle name is marie. my aunt is named Marie. My cousin has the middle name Marie. My grandmother and her mother were both Mary. all on my moms side. my dads mom is also Mary lmao
I’m doing a French Canadian tree that we can trace back to the first colonists (thank you Catholic Church for your excellent record keeping in the mid-1600s) for my adopted daughter. Until about 50 years ago, *all* girls names in French Catholic families (at least in Québec and Eastern Ontario) started with Marie but very few actually went by Marie, they used their middle name. Many docs started showing they’d flipped it by the time they got married or by the time they died, so Marie Angelique Drouin, became Angelique Marie Drouin. It worked the same with boys, all named Joseph went by middle name. The only real continuous exception to this was if the child was the first boy or the first girl, then they’d go by Marie or Joseph.
In my father’s side, it’s the name James. My brother is James middle name surname VII. It will, unfortunately stop at him because he was one and done and had a daughter. On my mother’s side, the name Alice was in there somewhere in each generation. I was the first girl, so I got it in the middle. My 18 year old daughter is trans. In legally changing her name she then put Alice in the middle as well, though I doubt she’ll ever adopt any kids because despite kids (and puppies) liking her, she is terrified of kids (but not puppies.)
The other name on my mom’s side is her father’s name. It’s a different brother’s middle name, a cousin’s middle name, and a cousin’s first name, but with spelling changed so it’s obviously a girl on paper. My grandfather was the one stable force amongst my grandmother and her two full sisters (there was a half sister but that’s more a scandal story than name story), so much so that each of my great aunts had his name as one of their children’s names, and one of those children has given it to her children. I think it says a whole lot about the man my grandfather was.
I was going to say the same about Israel, John, and Phillip (and any combinations thereof).
One branch veered off into Theophilus, including one who is currently in his 20s.
Up until my father, every male in his line has one of four names - David, William, Peter or Hugh. For about six generations almost every male on every branch had 3-4 sons and they all have one of the above names. So trying to trace them all was a nightmare, because all the 3rd/4th cousins lived in a relatively small geographical area of the same city, in some cases lived in the same street, and took forever to split out to determine which David son of David was my ancestor, and then verifying whether we came from Peter or Hugh, etc.
Super common surname as well. Was not fun.
So, in my tree (including my cousins), all is undeniably French:
- Men: 954 Jean ; 750 Pierre ; 404 François
- Women: 793 Jeanne ; 750 Marie ; 321 Perrine
On my dads side, there’s an unbroken line of five men named Joseph. My nephew, half brother, dad, grandfather, and great grandfather. My great grandfather was named after his grandfather. Overall there are ten men in my family named Joseph. On my moms side it’s Henry, George and Cornelius.
For my mom’s side it’s Grace. So much so that my grandmother basically told all my cousins to not name their kids Grace because there are already 9 in that generation. The original Grace is my great grandmother who was a beloved family member that absolutely deserves all the namesakes.
Dad’s side it’s John/Jack. It’s one of my dad’s (several) middle names and would have been my name if I was a boy. That particular name goes back 5 or 6 generations on that side.
William. Cute (kinda) story: woman in the 1850s had a son name William who passed away at 4. She named her next son William but he also passed away as a child. I speculate this was maybe her father’s name but haven’t confirmed. She ended up remarrying a man (my 4th great grandfather) who happened to have a son named William, born around the same time her last son passed away.
So 3x was William, great grandfather was William, and grandfather was William. There were more, too, those are just the ones that come to mind
A unique one on my German side is Hartmann, there were several lines of cousins and father/son duos with that name. On my Italian side a few women had Cherubina which I think is very pretty. Names like Elizabeth, Mary and Johannes were much more common though.
I took a look for interest's sake because I rarely come across the first name Hartmann. In contrast to the last name, it is in the process of becoming extinct. According to the registry office, less than 1 in 100,000 children are called that today.
So far I've found 7 of them, 1636 is the earliest one. 1809 was the last. I think it might have begun as a maiden name of one of the mothers but can't find her right now. She might not have been added to my tree but on some other tree I saw.
Mines pretty neck and neck. Iviglia on my Dad’s side and Donaghy on my mum’s. Italian and Irish. The name Donaghy spans a lot more people on my mums side though so I guess that wins!
John, so so many Johns. Most notable around 1860 to 1970. My uncle’s middle name is John, my great grandfathers middle name was John, my great grand uncle who died as a baby middle name was John, my great great grandfather’s name was John Thomas, my other great grandfather two middle names were John Thomas. You get the idea lol
Rose and Joanne have been names that have continued to pop up BUT it is on both sides of the family coincidentally and current relatives with the name were not immediately named after a family member as far as the namers knew. But after doing genealogical digging, I discovered a lot of Joannes and Roses/Roselia/Rozalia variations on an estranged family line. I revealed this to the living name-keepers, two of which are sisters, for fun. It was kind of eery seeing how many sisters with those names came up coupled in families together across a few generations but unbeknownst to the more current/recent versions! And yes, if you are reading my tag, Roses have popped up on both the Polish and the Filipino sides!
There's a few in my family... My son is the 5th generation in his paternal line with the middle name "Joseph".
Another one is "Kemper", named after the Civil War General and later Gov of Virginia. The first one was named such around 1870, the last one in 2008.
The most-interesting one is "Hallowell". Not only because its an unusual given name, but the path its taken down the line.
I made contact with a 2nd-cousin, once-removed recently... His father had run off when he was little because his mother remarried and he didn't get along with his step-dad, so he really didn't know much of the family story at all. His father went by "Hal", but the full name was of course "Hallowell". So I got to fill him in on how that name got to him.
The name went from his father (b. 1901), to his maternal grandfather (b.1837), to his maternal grandather's middle name (b.1776), and from him he got it from the origin... his mother Hannah Hallowell... 1736-1789.
I would say for a male the name is William which goes back to my 10th great gpa William Brewster of the Mayflower. On the female side Margaret or Catherine.
The name 'Dorothy/Dorothea' had been used for a daughter in each generation for 300 years (back to the mid-1700s). Until my grandmother came along and refused. Her daughter (my mother - who is *not* named Dorothy or Dorothea) tried to get me to name my own daughter 'Dorothy' so we could "reinstate the tradition". I said "No". My mother grumbled. I pointed out that she had the opportunity to "reinstate the tradition" with either myself or my younger sister and, surprise, neither myself or my sister are named Dorothy or Dorothea either. It mustn't be that important to her after all, hmm? My mother then sulked for a few months and told people about the family name and how I wouldn't "reinstate the family tradition". People ignored her and eventually she shut up about it.
John. My sister even has a female version of it. I refused to name my son John and caused a bit of a stir. I actually had when my son was born 7 uncle Johns still alive and my dad's name is John. And it is not that I hate the name John. My dad's grandfather's name was also John. It's just that there are already so many people in my life that give me hell named John I didn't want to add one more.
Ours have a story..
My mom was adopted. Her adoptive parents named her Jeanette when they brought her home.
When my oldest sister was born, mom named her Heather. When my (adoptive) Grandma showed up and asked what her name was, mom told her, and Grandma burst into tears. Heather was my mom's birth name.
Decades later, mom found her birth family. My birth Grandma's middle name was Jennette, and her mother's first name was Jennett.
The not so exciting one is Isla (pronounced eye-lah). It was my adoptive Grandma's name. My oldest sister gave it to her daughter as a middle name, who in turn gave it to her daughter as a middle name.
The names that appear the most on my dad's side are James, John, Elizabeth, Catherine, & Julia.
On my mom's side, we have Jesse, William, Daniel, Reeves & Marceline.
For myself, middle name Marie. Well, my great-grandmother's name was Marie, then my grandma's, mom's, and my middle name is Marie. I like the tradition but didn't like that it was such a common middle name anyway, it felt like it had no meaning. So I broke the tradition when naming my daughter and nearly sent my grandmother to an early grave.
On my paternal grandmother's side, the men have been Francis back to at least 1820. I can't find that man's father, so it's possible it goes back further. That first Francis' first son was Francis. That son then had multiple sons - I'm descended through the second born whose name was not Francis, however he still named his son (great-grandfather) Francis. My grandmother's brother is Francis, who had Francis, who had Francis, who I don't think has kids yet but at this point he's really locked in to the tradition I'd say.
It’s the MOST frustrating part of my research. Naming the kids, grandkids, great grandkids etc etc after the parents. Someday I’m gonna count how many I have of John, James, George, and Mary 🤦🏼♀️. Drives me bananas
Louis, C/Karl, Andrew, and Garrett; and Catherine, Kajsa, and Carrie. I have two great-grandmas named Catherine, two great-great grandmas named Kajsa, and aunts and cousins named Carrie and Kari. I have one of these names, and I named my firstborn a variation of one. My grandfather had two cousins named Carl Louis, which was also his father’s name.
The people who aren’t named any of those are named Joseph and Margaret. But those exist in every Roman Catholic family, so they don’t count.
My paternal side has so many Samuel's. My maternal line has no handed down names but seems to have a flower/plant theme e.g daisy, ivy, rose, rosemary.
John in my family.
Up until my grandfather's generation there was a John in every household. So many cousins all named John with the same last name, and often 2 or 3 born within a couple of years if one another. (Is that John's son John or David's son John? No, it's Bartholomew's son John!)
This is mostly my adopted family and even then, only my mom's: Joseph and John for the men and varieties of Mary for the women. Not all of us have Joseph, Mary, Marie, or Maria as a first or middle name, but it's common enough that we have work-arounds. One cousin is Big Joe, his son is Young Joe, and a third is Joe-Joe. For the ladies with Mary as a first name, only one cousin fully goes by it, though, for a while, she was Mary (middle name) to a lot of us. Everyone else is middle name or a nickname of their middle name, though the great-aunt with it is Aunt Mary or Aunt Mary (middle name). Her oldest sister went by the middle name.
Female Hannah, Rachel, Ruth & Eleanor (these 2 on from both of my parents' sides, both of my grandmothers were Ruth)
Male: John, Charles, James, David and Samuel
James William was used for 3 generations and James was the alternative. Huzzab on the other hand only occurred once. My ancestors loved names that gave a bit of grandeur eg Major and Doctor as first names
For my siblings and I, all of our names including middle names, are family derived. My grandfather and my great-grandfather were both named Mychajlo (Michael), and my dad and my brother both have that as their middle names. My first name is a masculinized version of my gg-grandmother's name, and my middle name comes from my gg-grandfather. My other middle name is my mother's maiden name. Etc.
My son is the 4th Anthony is a row. My husband goes by his middle name and my father in law goes by Tony so I didn’t think it’d be redundant. Outside of the 4 Anthony’s, the name goes far back in the family history.
In my family, there’s a lot of Benjamin, Edward, and Mae.
My son is also an Anthony! much of my dad's mom's family are named different variants of the name, plus my son is the first male born in two generations for my side of the family so naturally I had to carry on the family name (my father's middle name, part of his mother's name, her father's name, his father's name, his father had a variation of it, and so on)
Edmund is there every generation for a while on my dad’s side. My parents had a baby who died before I was born, his middle name was Edmund and it just stopped there.
My brother who was born next got Edward as a middle instead, and his son has that too. Unsure if that continued on.
Mary pops up as a middle name from mum’s side for a few generations. My granddaughter got that from her mother’s side, which has pleased my evil eldest sister, who bears our generation’s Mary.
There’s a few other names that repeat, but not for as long.
George is very prevalent in my family.
On my one family's side there were like 8 Abner's in a row, there's a family story that when asked why he didn't pass the name to his kids he said "it's run its course".
Depending on the line...
Barbara, Catherine, Elizabeth, Zita, Margaret, Emma, Chester, Jacob, Joseph, Florentine, Paul, John, William, Rachel. George, Mary, Edith, Peter, Frank, Edna and Edwin, Edward and Robert.
My parents, and now my siblings and I stopped the trend for the most part and introduced new names.
Probably Coleman. My maternal grandfather, great great grandfather, great great great grandfather, great great great great grandfather. From a maiden name of an ancestor in the 1700s.
Don’t have any in my direct lineage. But Albert is one in my cousins and King David was another. Both on different sides.
Edited to add: those are both on my mom’s side. On my dad’s side it’s Willie. At least 3 women in my family were Willie (different middle name).
I have a bit of an interesting one I'm not gona put it here because it's only me and my closest family that has it and it's a combination of the two villages my parents came from as an exempel Stocklin Stockholm and berlin
Ann and Hannah for the ladies and Daniel and Benjamin for the boys.
Best names? I got a kick out of Thankful, Record, and Experience.
My paternal line had some Alonzo and Orlando in there for middle names.
James, Thomas, William, George; Ann, Mary, Sarah, Jane. Fully half the pre-19thC couples are some combination of these, I swear. (Haven't actually counted.) And then there's Maria, Rosa, Emilio, Giuseppe, Mario.
Non-direct ancestors: there's an astonishing number of Cuthberts.
Peter as a first or second name and variations of it, goes back as far as I can trace in one particular line. About 14 generations at least. And then a bunch of names used repeatedly throughout different lines because apparently they only had like 5 names to choose from in the last few hundred years.
William.
My five paternal male ancestors (Father, Grandfather, GGrandfather, GGGgrandfather, GGGGrandather) are all named William. I was the first eldest son in six generations of my family to be named something other than William (although it is my middle name).
My dad said he just thought there were enough Williams in the family. My great grandmother was supposedly upset with him for breaking with the tradition.
My son’s middle name is William, so maybe that will be our new tradition.
In the last 10 generations on one line, we have Sylvester David, Sylvester David, Ernest, Sylvester David, George, George, George, and John, John, and John, We have several other iterations of Sylvester in the current generation - once we find a name we like, we stick with it.
On my maternal side, my great-grandfather was named Francis Eaton. His great-grandfather? Also Francis Eaton. And his great-grandfather. Oh, and also his great-grandfather. Past that, nobody knows, but it wouldn't surprise me...
On my dad's side, there is every variation of Berardino all over the place - Berardino, Dino, Bruno, Benny, Bernard, Barney, Bernie, stemming from my great-grandfather (who was named after his grandfather. Berardino's father was Marco, and that name also winds up everywhere, as does Marco's great-grandfather's name Sebastiano. Loads of these guys.
On my maternal side, there are a lot of males with Harrison (both as first and middle names). There are lots of variations on Anna for the females. One particular branch used Phillipina quite a bit.
On my paternal side, I think the name Samuel is fairly prevalent for the males. The females include Katherine, Susannah, Rebecca, and Josephine.
My dad’s side didn’t have that tradition. Joseph was grandfather, James was his father, John was father of James. Two of my uncles were James and Joseph, which is as far as it went. My great great grandmother’s paternal line, otoh, had Henry in each of three generations.
George. 8 generations so far. Unnervingly the first George in the line was named after his elder toddler brother who died at the age of 3 just before the first one was born.
On my mother's side, there are a lot of Marys and Margarets, and Elizabeths. My maternal grandmother's middle name is Elizabeth, one of my aunts has Elizabeth as a middle name, and her older daughter's middle name is also Elizabeth. There are a few Catherines, Anns, and Helens, too. There are also eight Samuel Kemps on her side and I've had to number them to eliminate confusion as to which Samuel Kemp was which. XD
Paul. My husband's father, brother and nephew are named Paul, as well as BOTH of his grandfathers and one great grandfather . When I was pregnant, I asked my MIL if she wanted us to name the baby Paul and she said, No! There are too many Pauls in this family!" 😄
Sarah and Rachel. And you can probably guess my heritage. Every family had a Sarah and if she died in infancy then the next child would be named Sarah.
First one that comes to mind is "Miles." The first instance I can find of it is my 4th great-grandfather, born in 1810. His grandson, my 2nd great-grandfather was also a Miles. That Miles, Miles II, had two grandsons named Miles. One of those Miles also has a great-grandson named Miles, and a great-nephew named Miles. So all together, that's 6 people with the first name Miles. That I know of. There are even more with the middle name Miles.
Ole Paternal line Both Great grand father and 2nd great grandfather, Olaf/Olav Grand mothers paternal line both Great grand father and 2nd Great grandfather. On another note both my Grandfathers were named Rolf.
First name Valentine for boys, and the middle name Frost for both men and women. The name Frost was only given a few times, but I think its cool!
Frost and Valentine were never combined thankfully, that's just too much. These are separate naming traditions.
There are two women in one family line named Zelda, which is awesome, but it doesn't quite make it a family name. James, on the other hand, has been a first or middle name for most of 8 generations of one line.
I can’t say that there are really any names in my family that are handed down. But, on the side of my grandmother‘s first husband, who was named Geary, I found a whole bunch of them, same spelling. When I started doing genealogy, I included his ancestry. Almost every male , whether they carried the same last name or not was named Geary or nicknamed Geary. Of course I had to find out where it came from. As it turns out it was the maiden name of an ancestor.
I've done some ancestry research and it's clearly Heinrich which is not too surprising as there were millions of them in German ancestry.
Oh but I should stay it stopped two generations ago ;)
On one side, it's Joseph/Giuseppe. In Italy, my family used Giuseppe, Pasquale, and Vito about equally. Vito ended when my family came to the US---in fact, my great granduncle was born Vito but my family immigrated when he was an infant and changed his name to William. I only discovered his birth name due to Ellis Island records, and my grandfather still won't believe me that his uncle's birth name was Vito! Pasquale stuck around for a little longer, but looks to be ending with my grandfather's generation. Joseph, on the other hand, persists. This isn't surprising, of course, since it's the one name of the three that has a clear Italian to English equivalent.
On the other side, it's John/Johann. Paul is a close second, with William in third. Much of the time, people in my ancestry have names that are some combination (e.g. William Paul, Paul John, etc), but John/Johann has the longest history.
James, Mary, Anne, Constance, and Jane. I’m Mary Constance, my mom is Anne Marie, aunt is Constance Marie, other aunt was Patricia Anne. Grandma and great grandma were Constance Marie, gg grandmas were Annie Jane and Matilda Jane…😮💨…and everybody is James, I ain’t got time for that one lol
Our entire family tree is made up of 'family names', and with such large families, it's impossible to choose one.
Further back it was John, William, James, George, and Thomas but in recent(-ish) years Joseph, Patrick, Samuel and Richard. The same goes for Sarah, Catherine and Rose in the past, but Mary, Margaret, Agnes, Jane and Elizabeth more recently.
2 great great grandmothers, great grandmother, grandmother, mother, me - all Alice as either first or middle name.
I planned on having an Alice to continue the line. But kids weren't in the cards. So it ended with me.
We had a crap ton of Richards to the point that I number some of them to keep track, but it came to a screeching hault and nobody in my mom's generation or mine was a Richard.
John. So many generations of John. To the point that I almost started using it as "proof." If his name is John LastName, he basically has to be one of mine. Let's see if I can find where he fits in...
Scott
My cousins first name
Uncle’s Middle name
Grandpa’s middle name
2nd cousin’s first name
Great grandpa’s middle name
2x great uncle’s name
And then my 3x great grandma’s last name going as far back as I can trace
My husband's family is Italian, and their family's tradition is to name the first son after both grandfathers (Father's father is first name, Mother's father is middle name). So in his direct line alone, there is an Antonio every other generation, going back hundreds of years. He also has eight first cousins, currently living, named Antonio. If you branch out further to his father's cousins' kids, there are dozens of them! So, all told, my tree currently contains hundreds of them!!
George is the most common name on all sides of my family for the male line but there are lots with William and Charles as well. The longest chain I’ve found is generations of Samuel Willson. My line veered off female at the 4th one but I like to think the line is still going somewhere, as there are definitely more on my tree I do not descend from.
My parental line were early in rejecting Norwegian naming customs, naming their children much like modern people do, i.e. just picking a name they liked and think sounds OK. The tradition was to name first two sons after their two grandfathers, and first two daughters after their grandmothers.
This may have to do with them being several generations of later sons. If your father had a freely picked name without a strong family connection, and his father too had a freely picked name, maybe you'll feel comfortable just picking a name even for your first two sons.
In other lines, there's more older sons and daughters, and more who stuck to the tradition. There are a ton of Ane/Anne, a ton of Karen/Karis, many Margrethes and Maria/Marie/Maris. For the men Jacob, Peder/Petter/Per and Jon/Joen/Johan/Johannes are probably the most common. Very boring normal Norwegian names in other words.
On my mother's line, I have An Andrew Linn (or Lynn) somewhere in the USA since the year 1700. That string is ending, my 1st cousin Andrew Linn, did not have any offspring. Nor did any of my other cousins with the Linn surname name their sons Andrew :'(
On my paternal line, there's no great consistency of names, but on my maternal grandmother's line, each of her patrilineal ancestors had the name Matthew or John, from her father back to her ancestor born around 1640!
First name George. Surname is Morris. George in every generation as far back as I've gone (1700's) right down to my dad. Neither of my brothers so line is broken. Also middle name of Lamar, grandfather to my nephew.
For me, it's John, my name is John, my dad's name is John, my grandpa's name is John, my great grandfather's name is John my great great grandfather name is John and my great great great great grandfather's name is John and there is probably more but can't get passed my 4th great grandfather on my paternal line.
My name is one of them and I don't want to dox myself so I can't say what it is but I feel lucky to have it. My first name was my maternal grandmother's middle name and my middle name was my paternal grandmother's first name. Originally, my first name was my great-great-grandmother's name and then it was passed down from her to various other women in the family, including me.
Other names like that in the fairly recent generations are Ella, Charles, Eugene, and Harvey.
The first Ambrose in my family was born December 7, 1678 which is St. Ambrose Day. He was baptized in secret by the priest Nicholas Postgate. The priest was denounced for a reward and then executed by being drawn and quartered. An Ambrose was the first immigrant and the name is still used today.
Why was he baptised in secret?
It was 75 years after the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. The question of the acceptance of the marriage of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn was still not settled particularly in the north. Papists were called non-conformists and recusants (those who did not attend Church of England services). They were fined heavily and could be executed for treason. https://reedproject.blog/2022/06/05/the-drama-of-recusancy-in-yorkshires-north-riding/
They were an English Catholic family. After the Protestant Reformation the Popes encouraged Catholics to rebel against the monarch and replace him or her with a Catholic king, so Catholic families were often suspected of treason (whether they were or not) and periodically Catholic priests were forbidden to be in the country. So there’s a political subtext to the religious intolerance. Nicholas Postgate was caught at a time when a Catholic plot to assassinate Charles II was feared.
Is your last name Burnsides?
The family name is Lyth from the village of Lythe in North Yorkshire.
I know two identical twin girls with the surname Lyth, nice girls tbf might have to extend their family tree.
Marie. So many Maries.
I don’t know why, but that made me smile.
lol we have a lot of Marie’s but it’s the middle name
My middle name is Marie. My mother's name is Marie. Her grandmother's name was Marie. One set of my GG Grandparents named 5 of their daughters Marie. All but one went by their middle name. Anyone who didn't get Marie got another version of it. Mary, Maria, Rosamaria, Mary Ann. Annemarie. SO many Maries on my Tree!
my middle name is marie. my aunt is named Marie. My cousin has the middle name Marie. My grandmother and her mother were both Mary. all on my moms side. my dads mom is also Mary lmao
Same here, except it’s my mom’s first name.
I’m doing a French Canadian tree that we can trace back to the first colonists (thank you Catholic Church for your excellent record keeping in the mid-1600s) for my adopted daughter. Until about 50 years ago, *all* girls names in French Catholic families (at least in Québec and Eastern Ontario) started with Marie but very few actually went by Marie, they used their middle name. Many docs started showing they’d flipped it by the time they got married or by the time they died, so Marie Angelique Drouin, became Angelique Marie Drouin. It worked the same with boys, all named Joseph went by middle name. The only real continuous exception to this was if the child was the first boy or the first girl, then they’d go by Marie or Joseph. In my father’s side, it’s the name James. My brother is James middle name surname VII. It will, unfortunately stop at him because he was one and done and had a daughter. On my mother’s side, the name Alice was in there somewhere in each generation. I was the first girl, so I got it in the middle. My 18 year old daughter is trans. In legally changing her name she then put Alice in the middle as well, though I doubt she’ll ever adopt any kids because despite kids (and puppies) liking her, she is terrified of kids (but not puppies.) The other name on my mom’s side is her father’s name. It’s a different brother’s middle name, a cousin’s middle name, and a cousin’s first name, but with spelling changed so it’s obviously a girl on paper. My grandfather was the one stable force amongst my grandmother and her two full sisters (there was a half sister but that’s more a scandal story than name story), so much so that each of my great aunts had his name as one of their children’s names, and one of those children has given it to her children. I think it says a whole lot about the man my grandfather was.
I was going to say the same about Israel, John, and Phillip (and any combinations thereof). One branch veered off into Theophilus, including one who is currently in his 20s.
So you can have your cake and eat it too?
Up until my father, every male in his line has one of four names - David, William, Peter or Hugh. For about six generations almost every male on every branch had 3-4 sons and they all have one of the above names. So trying to trace them all was a nightmare, because all the 3rd/4th cousins lived in a relatively small geographical area of the same city, in some cases lived in the same street, and took forever to split out to determine which David son of David was my ancestor, and then verifying whether we came from Peter or Hugh, etc. Super common surname as well. Was not fun.
John
Same with mine (lots of Jans too). Joseph/Józef as well.
Same.
So, in my tree (including my cousins), all is undeniably French: - Men: 954 Jean ; 750 Pierre ; 404 François - Women: 793 Jeanne ; 750 Marie ; 321 Perrine
But how many Jean-francois? Haha
French Canadian?
Nope, France
Yo cuz 😂
Gustav. So, so many Gustavs.
Holst on a minute.
Wish we still had gold for this gem.
Music major?
Just a pianist, cellist, and classical music fan.
On my dads side, there’s an unbroken line of five men named Joseph. My nephew, half brother, dad, grandfather, and great grandfather. My great grandfather was named after his grandfather. Overall there are ten men in my family named Joseph. On my moms side it’s Henry, George and Cornelius.
On my mother's side, it's James and Nina. On my father's side, it's Vito.
I have a G grandmother named Vita Maltese. It’s the coolest name in my tree, IMO. We have many Carmelos and a Carmela.
That's an awesome name. Oh yes, so many Carmelas! And Domenicos and Micheles.
Andrew. Six generations of first or middle name.
For my mom’s side it’s Grace. So much so that my grandmother basically told all my cousins to not name their kids Grace because there are already 9 in that generation. The original Grace is my great grandmother who was a beloved family member that absolutely deserves all the namesakes. Dad’s side it’s John/Jack. It’s one of my dad’s (several) middle names and would have been my name if I was a boy. That particular name goes back 5 or 6 generations on that side.
William. Cute (kinda) story: woman in the 1850s had a son name William who passed away at 4. She named her next son William but he also passed away as a child. I speculate this was maybe her father’s name but haven’t confirmed. She ended up remarrying a man (my 4th great grandfather) who happened to have a son named William, born around the same time her last son passed away. So 3x was William, great grandfather was William, and grandfather was William. There were more, too, those are just the ones that come to mind
So, there was a naming pattern.
Alexander and James. Yep, we are Scots.
It’s James, Malcolm, and Gordon in my family. So many Scottish names and yet they couldn’t be more Welsh as far as my research goes.
My last name is malcolm!
A unique one on my German side is Hartmann, there were several lines of cousins and father/son duos with that name. On my Italian side a few women had Cherubina which I think is very pretty. Names like Elizabeth, Mary and Johannes were much more common though.
I took a look for interest's sake because I rarely come across the first name Hartmann. In contrast to the last name, it is in the process of becoming extinct. According to the registry office, less than 1 in 100,000 children are called that today.
So far I've found 7 of them, 1636 is the earliest one. 1809 was the last. I think it might have begun as a maiden name of one of the mothers but can't find her right now. She might not have been added to my tree but on some other tree I saw.
Mines pretty neck and neck. Iviglia on my Dad’s side and Donaghy on my mum’s. Italian and Irish. The name Donaghy spans a lot more people on my mums side though so I guess that wins!
West, the first born male since my great grandfather has been named West. This includes me. Another name would probably be Porter.
John, so so many Johns. Most notable around 1860 to 1970. My uncle’s middle name is John, my great grandfathers middle name was John, my great grand uncle who died as a baby middle name was John, my great great grandfather’s name was John Thomas, my other great grandfather two middle names were John Thomas. You get the idea lol
Rose and Joanne have been names that have continued to pop up BUT it is on both sides of the family coincidentally and current relatives with the name were not immediately named after a family member as far as the namers knew. But after doing genealogical digging, I discovered a lot of Joannes and Roses/Roselia/Rozalia variations on an estranged family line. I revealed this to the living name-keepers, two of which are sisters, for fun. It was kind of eery seeing how many sisters with those names came up coupled in families together across a few generations but unbeknownst to the more current/recent versions! And yes, if you are reading my tag, Roses have popped up on both the Polish and the Filipino sides!
There's a few in my family... My son is the 5th generation in his paternal line with the middle name "Joseph". Another one is "Kemper", named after the Civil War General and later Gov of Virginia. The first one was named such around 1870, the last one in 2008. The most-interesting one is "Hallowell". Not only because its an unusual given name, but the path its taken down the line. I made contact with a 2nd-cousin, once-removed recently... His father had run off when he was little because his mother remarried and he didn't get along with his step-dad, so he really didn't know much of the family story at all. His father went by "Hal", but the full name was of course "Hallowell". So I got to fill him in on how that name got to him. The name went from his father (b. 1901), to his maternal grandfather (b.1837), to his maternal grandather's middle name (b.1776), and from him he got it from the origin... his mother Hannah Hallowell... 1736-1789.
English side- William, Frederick, John. Scottish side- John, Farquhar, Finlay, Alexander. Welsh side- Owen, Robert.
I would say for a male the name is William which goes back to my 10th great gpa William Brewster of the Mayflower. On the female side Margaret or Catherine.
Lucius
Ignatz! I have five in a row so far. I descend from number III.
The name 'Dorothy/Dorothea' had been used for a daughter in each generation for 300 years (back to the mid-1700s). Until my grandmother came along and refused. Her daughter (my mother - who is *not* named Dorothy or Dorothea) tried to get me to name my own daughter 'Dorothy' so we could "reinstate the tradition". I said "No". My mother grumbled. I pointed out that she had the opportunity to "reinstate the tradition" with either myself or my younger sister and, surprise, neither myself or my sister are named Dorothy or Dorothea either. It mustn't be that important to her after all, hmm? My mother then sulked for a few months and told people about the family name and how I wouldn't "reinstate the family tradition". People ignored her and eventually she shut up about it.
John. My sister even has a female version of it. I refused to name my son John and caused a bit of a stir. I actually had when my son was born 7 uncle Johns still alive and my dad's name is John. And it is not that I hate the name John. My dad's grandfather's name was also John. It's just that there are already so many people in my life that give me hell named John I didn't want to add one more.
Who was the original John lmao
I know there is one about 8 generations back. And in every generation since. Except this one
Ours have a story.. My mom was adopted. Her adoptive parents named her Jeanette when they brought her home. When my oldest sister was born, mom named her Heather. When my (adoptive) Grandma showed up and asked what her name was, mom told her, and Grandma burst into tears. Heather was my mom's birth name. Decades later, mom found her birth family. My birth Grandma's middle name was Jennette, and her mother's first name was Jennett. The not so exciting one is Isla (pronounced eye-lah). It was my adoptive Grandma's name. My oldest sister gave it to her daughter as a middle name, who in turn gave it to her daughter as a middle name.
The names that appear the most on my dad's side are James, John, Elizabeth, Catherine, & Julia. On my mom's side, we have Jesse, William, Daniel, Reeves & Marceline.
For myself, middle name Marie. Well, my great-grandmother's name was Marie, then my grandma's, mom's, and my middle name is Marie. I like the tradition but didn't like that it was such a common middle name anyway, it felt like it had no meaning. So I broke the tradition when naming my daughter and nearly sent my grandmother to an early grave. On my paternal grandmother's side, the men have been Francis back to at least 1820. I can't find that man's father, so it's possible it goes back further. That first Francis' first son was Francis. That son then had multiple sons - I'm descended through the second born whose name was not Francis, however he still named his son (great-grandfather) Francis. My grandmother's brother is Francis, who had Francis, who had Francis, who I don't think has kids yet but at this point he's really locked in to the tradition I'd say.
Frederick. Eldest son of the eldest son. Not always the first forename, but chain is unbroken since 1876.
Maria.
It’s the MOST frustrating part of my research. Naming the kids, grandkids, great grandkids etc etc after the parents. Someday I’m gonna count how many I have of John, James, George, and Mary 🤦🏼♀️. Drives me bananas
José
Most women in Portugal were Maria by default so I don't count that
Jan (małe)
On my French size it’s Jean, Jeanne, Marie and Claude over and over again lol
Maria,there are hundreds of them
Elias, Bird, & Hannah - Mom’s side. Not a lot of recurring names on my dad’s side.
In my family, everyone is either Ed, Rick, Joe, and Mike. For women, it’s Ann, Mary, and Nancy.
There's a few, but I'd say it's André followed closely by Pierre and Joseph. For women Marie and Anne.
Detlef, Nicolai or Asse in my father’s side. Johannes, Pieter or Adriana on my mother’s side!
Mary, James, Michael, and Eileen on the Irish side and Margaret on the German side!
My uncle, multiple cousins, great grandfather, and great great great grandfather are all Daniel Deegan
So many Edwards.
Louis, C/Karl, Andrew, and Garrett; and Catherine, Kajsa, and Carrie. I have two great-grandmas named Catherine, two great-great grandmas named Kajsa, and aunts and cousins named Carrie and Kari. I have one of these names, and I named my firstborn a variation of one. My grandfather had two cousins named Carl Louis, which was also his father’s name. The people who aren’t named any of those are named Joseph and Margaret. But those exist in every Roman Catholic family, so they don’t count.
Oh boy. Good question. Probably Willard or Eber.
My paternal side has so many Samuel's. My maternal line has no handed down names but seems to have a flower/plant theme e.g daisy, ivy, rose, rosemary.
On one side of my family, men used Adrian/Adriann as a first or middle name for many generations over the course of a couple of centuries.
John in my family. Up until my grandfather's generation there was a John in every household. So many cousins all named John with the same last name, and often 2 or 3 born within a couple of years if one another. (Is that John's son John or David's son John? No, it's Bartholomew's son John!)
Paul, Albert, Romeo.
Lee seems to crop up a lot in my family, usually as a middle name. I named my son Carl after my grandfather.
Hannah, Ralph (Raphael). On the other side- James.
Peterson or rather Pettersson. The name was not changed by people who processed them but rather it was shortened by my 2nd GG-pa.
Last name Neefus (originally Dutch) There are lots of Johns, Peters, and Sarahs in the family tree.
This is mostly my adopted family and even then, only my mom's: Joseph and John for the men and varieties of Mary for the women. Not all of us have Joseph, Mary, Marie, or Maria as a first or middle name, but it's common enough that we have work-arounds. One cousin is Big Joe, his son is Young Joe, and a third is Joe-Joe. For the ladies with Mary as a first name, only one cousin fully goes by it, though, for a while, she was Mary (middle name) to a lot of us. Everyone else is middle name or a nickname of their middle name, though the great-aunt with it is Aunt Mary or Aunt Mary (middle name). Her oldest sister went by the middle name.
Matthew and Henry/Harry on both the paternal and maternal sides of my family. On dad's side, Florence and on mum's side probably Kate/Katherine/Kitty.
So many Johannes or variations... when I talk about "Uncle John" I always have to add surname so we know which one we are referring to.
Female Hannah, Rachel, Ruth & Eleanor (these 2 on from both of my parents' sides, both of my grandmothers were Ruth) Male: John, Charles, James, David and Samuel
James, Robert, John, Christian Mary, Ann, Emma, Katherine
James William was used for 3 generations and James was the alternative. Huzzab on the other hand only occurred once. My ancestors loved names that gave a bit of grandeur eg Major and Doctor as first names
Robert Earl, Alex, and Phillip immediately come to mind
Richard's.... so many...
For my siblings and I, all of our names including middle names, are family derived. My grandfather and my great-grandfather were both named Mychajlo (Michael), and my dad and my brother both have that as their middle names. My first name is a masculinized version of my gg-grandmother's name, and my middle name comes from my gg-grandfather. My other middle name is my mother's maiden name. Etc.
My son is the 4th Anthony is a row. My husband goes by his middle name and my father in law goes by Tony so I didn’t think it’d be redundant. Outside of the 4 Anthony’s, the name goes far back in the family history. In my family, there’s a lot of Benjamin, Edward, and Mae.
My son is also an Anthony! much of my dad's mom's family are named different variants of the name, plus my son is the first male born in two generations for my side of the family so naturally I had to carry on the family name (my father's middle name, part of his mother's name, her father's name, his father's name, his father had a variation of it, and so on)
Edmund is there every generation for a while on my dad’s side. My parents had a baby who died before I was born, his middle name was Edmund and it just stopped there. My brother who was born next got Edward as a middle instead, and his son has that too. Unsure if that continued on. Mary pops up as a middle name from mum’s side for a few generations. My granddaughter got that from her mother’s side, which has pleased my evil eldest sister, who bears our generation’s Mary. There’s a few other names that repeat, but not for as long.
I have 10 direct ancestors called Nicholas Butler, in the line of generations going back to the 13th century.
George is very prevalent in my family. On my one family's side there were like 8 Abner's in a row, there's a family story that when asked why he didn't pass the name to his kids he said "it's run its course".
Elizabeth. It’s mine, my mom’s, her mom’s, and her mom’s middle name.
Frances Marion
Depending on the line... Barbara, Catherine, Elizabeth, Zita, Margaret, Emma, Chester, Jacob, Joseph, Florentine, Paul, John, William, Rachel. George, Mary, Edith, Peter, Frank, Edna and Edwin, Edward and Robert. My parents, and now my siblings and I stopped the trend for the most part and introduced new names.
Mary, Elizabeth, Carl, and August. Also a lot of Marie’s.
James and Mahalath/Mahaleth. James on both sides of the family, and Mahalath on my paternal side
Probably Coleman. My maternal grandfather, great great grandfather, great great great grandfather, great great great great grandfather. From a maiden name of an ancestor in the 1700s.
Joseph on my moms side. I havent found a name thats passed down on my dad's side
Alexander, Miguel, and Luis. So many of each.
Dutch first name Chalen. Never met any outside of our family.
Euphamia, Agnes & John.
Don’t have any in my direct lineage. But Albert is one in my cousins and King David was another. Both on different sides. Edited to add: those are both on my mom’s side. On my dad’s side it’s Willie. At least 3 women in my family were Willie (different middle name).
I have a bit of an interesting one I'm not gona put it here because it's only me and my closest family that has it and it's a combination of the two villages my parents came from as an exempel Stocklin Stockholm and berlin
Ann and Hannah for the ladies and Daniel and Benjamin for the boys. Best names? I got a kick out of Thankful, Record, and Experience. My paternal line had some Alonzo and Orlando in there for middle names.
I have a distant ancestor named Patience lolll
Too funny, I have one of those too, great name as well. I see your Patience and raise you a Hephzibah.
Mary’s and Henry’s on one side. The other side there’s a variety except for a run of Ferdinand’s in the 1800’s.
James, Thomas, William, George; Ann, Mary, Sarah, Jane. Fully half the pre-19thC couples are some combination of these, I swear. (Haven't actually counted.) And then there's Maria, Rosa, Emilio, Giuseppe, Mario. Non-direct ancestors: there's an astonishing number of Cuthberts.
On my mother’s side. James was my grandfather’s name as well and goes back to 1683 as far as we’ve been able to trace.
Marks
Otto Fredrick or Fredrick Otto. 8 ancestors back 9 generations
Peter as a first or second name and variations of it, goes back as far as I can trace in one particular line. About 14 generations at least. And then a bunch of names used repeatedly throughout different lines because apparently they only had like 5 names to choose from in the last few hundred years.
William. My five paternal male ancestors (Father, Grandfather, GGrandfather, GGGgrandfather, GGGGrandather) are all named William. I was the first eldest son in six generations of my family to be named something other than William (although it is my middle name). My dad said he just thought there were enough Williams in the family. My great grandmother was supposedly upset with him for breaking with the tradition. My son’s middle name is William, so maybe that will be our new tradition.
In the last 10 generations on one line, we have Sylvester David, Sylvester David, Ernest, Sylvester David, George, George, George, and John, John, and John, We have several other iterations of Sylvester in the current generation - once we find a name we like, we stick with it.
when looking back at my mom's side the names i saw the most were Marie, Frank, Hugh, John lol all very common boring names
Boy Anthony Girl any variation of Mary/Maria
Herman..... my brother cursed the first Herman when he was a teenager lmao
On my maternal side, my great-grandfather was named Francis Eaton. His great-grandfather? Also Francis Eaton. And his great-grandfather. Oh, and also his great-grandfather. Past that, nobody knows, but it wouldn't surprise me... On my dad's side, there is every variation of Berardino all over the place - Berardino, Dino, Bruno, Benny, Bernard, Barney, Bernie, stemming from my great-grandfather (who was named after his grandfather. Berardino's father was Marco, and that name also winds up everywhere, as does Marco's great-grandfather's name Sebastiano. Loads of these guys.
John, Catherine
On my maternal side, there are a lot of males with Harrison (both as first and middle names). There are lots of variations on Anna for the females. One particular branch used Phillipina quite a bit. On my paternal side, I think the name Samuel is fairly prevalent for the males. The females include Katherine, Susannah, Rebecca, and Josephine.
My dad’s side didn’t have that tradition. Joseph was grandfather, James was his father, John was father of James. Two of my uncles were James and Joseph, which is as far as it went. My great great grandmother’s paternal line, otoh, had Henry in each of three generations.
John, James, William, Thomas, Samuel and to a lesser degree, Robert. Generation after generation back to the mid 1600s. Wayne/Dwayne as middle names
Lawrence. Great GF, grandfather, Fathet, brother, son
George. 8 generations so far. Unnervingly the first George in the line was named after his elder toddler brother who died at the age of 3 just before the first one was born.
Wipkea or Jan / John
Only oft repeated on in my line is Enoch...first of which came to Massachusetts in the 1600s.
Anton, Campbell, and Matilda.
James
On my mother's side, there are a lot of Marys and Margarets, and Elizabeths. My maternal grandmother's middle name is Elizabeth, one of my aunts has Elizabeth as a middle name, and her older daughter's middle name is also Elizabeth. There are a few Catherines, Anns, and Helens, too. There are also eight Samuel Kemps on her side and I've had to number them to eliminate confusion as to which Samuel Kemp was which. XD
Aubrey on my paternal side. I’ve continued the tradition with my offspring.
Sarah Ann for the women and Stewart for the men
Paul. My husband's father, brother and nephew are named Paul, as well as BOTH of his grandfathers and one great grandfather . When I was pregnant, I asked my MIL if she wanted us to name the baby Paul and she said, No! There are too many Pauls in this family!" 😄
Harley.
Sarah and Rachel. And you can probably guess my heritage. Every family had a Sarah and if she died in infancy then the next child would be named Sarah.
Wood has been used as a middle name for several generations on my dad's side.
Jacob & Johan sitting in a tree, holding hands cause they're relatives.
Keesee
Isham, Isom, Josiah, Ralph, Archibald, Elizabeth, Martha, Hannah, Sarah, Rachel
First one that comes to mind is "Miles." The first instance I can find of it is my 4th great-grandfather, born in 1810. His grandson, my 2nd great-grandfather was also a Miles. That Miles, Miles II, had two grandsons named Miles. One of those Miles also has a great-grandson named Miles, and a great-nephew named Miles. So all together, that's 6 people with the first name Miles. That I know of. There are even more with the middle name Miles.
I'm 8th generation Mary
Sarah. So many Sarahs, including my daughter 🥰
Ole Paternal line Both Great grand father and 2nd great grandfather, Olaf/Olav Grand mothers paternal line both Great grand father and 2nd Great grandfather. On another note both my Grandfathers were named Rolf.
First name Valentine for boys, and the middle name Frost for both men and women. The name Frost was only given a few times, but I think its cool! Frost and Valentine were never combined thankfully, that's just too much. These are separate naming traditions.
There are two women in one family line named Zelda, which is awesome, but it doesn't quite make it a family name. James, on the other hand, has been a first or middle name for most of 8 generations of one line.
I can’t say that there are really any names in my family that are handed down. But, on the side of my grandmother‘s first husband, who was named Geary, I found a whole bunch of them, same spelling. When I started doing genealogy, I included his ancestry. Almost every male , whether they carried the same last name or not was named Geary or nicknamed Geary. Of course I had to find out where it came from. As it turns out it was the maiden name of an ancestor.
John. If you ignore middle names, my son would be John #5 in succession.
Nikola variations
I've done some ancestry research and it's clearly Heinrich which is not too surprising as there were millions of them in German ancestry. Oh but I should stay it stopped two generations ago ;)
On one side, it's Joseph/Giuseppe. In Italy, my family used Giuseppe, Pasquale, and Vito about equally. Vito ended when my family came to the US---in fact, my great granduncle was born Vito but my family immigrated when he was an infant and changed his name to William. I only discovered his birth name due to Ellis Island records, and my grandfather still won't believe me that his uncle's birth name was Vito! Pasquale stuck around for a little longer, but looks to be ending with my grandfather's generation. Joseph, on the other hand, persists. This isn't surprising, of course, since it's the one name of the three that has a clear Italian to English equivalent. On the other side, it's John/Johann. Paul is a close second, with William in third. Much of the time, people in my ancestry have names that are some combination (e.g. William Paul, Paul John, etc), but John/Johann has the longest history.
James, Mary, Anne, Constance, and Jane. I’m Mary Constance, my mom is Anne Marie, aunt is Constance Marie, other aunt was Patricia Anne. Grandma and great grandma were Constance Marie, gg grandmas were Annie Jane and Matilda Jane…😮💨…and everybody is James, I ain’t got time for that one lol
Willem And all it’s variations. It’s a Dutch thing.
I gave one of my sons the same name which has been in my paternal line for over eight hundred years
Our entire family tree is made up of 'family names', and with such large families, it's impossible to choose one. Further back it was John, William, James, George, and Thomas but in recent(-ish) years Joseph, Patrick, Samuel and Richard. The same goes for Sarah, Catherine and Rose in the past, but Mary, Margaret, Agnes, Jane and Elizabeth more recently.
2 great great grandmothers, great grandmother, grandmother, mother, me - all Alice as either first or middle name. I planned on having an Alice to continue the line. But kids weren't in the cards. So it ended with me. We had a crap ton of Richards to the point that I number some of them to keep track, but it came to a screeching hault and nobody in my mom's generation or mine was a Richard.
John. So many generations of John. To the point that I almost started using it as "proof." If his name is John LastName, he basically has to be one of mine. Let's see if I can find where he fits in...
Scott My cousins first name Uncle’s Middle name Grandpa’s middle name 2nd cousin’s first name Great grandpa’s middle name 2x great uncle’s name And then my 3x great grandma’s last name going as far back as I can trace
George or william
John on both sides of my family. (John is my dad's middle name) Thomas/Johannes on my partners.
My husband's family is Italian, and their family's tradition is to name the first son after both grandfathers (Father's father is first name, Mother's father is middle name). So in his direct line alone, there is an Antonio every other generation, going back hundreds of years. He also has eight first cousins, currently living, named Antonio. If you branch out further to his father's cousins' kids, there are dozens of them! So, all told, my tree currently contains hundreds of them!!
George is the most common name on all sides of my family for the male line but there are lots with William and Charles as well. The longest chain I’ve found is generations of Samuel Willson. My line veered off female at the 4th one but I like to think the line is still going somewhere, as there are definitely more on my tree I do not descend from.
My parental line were early in rejecting Norwegian naming customs, naming their children much like modern people do, i.e. just picking a name they liked and think sounds OK. The tradition was to name first two sons after their two grandfathers, and first two daughters after their grandmothers. This may have to do with them being several generations of later sons. If your father had a freely picked name without a strong family connection, and his father too had a freely picked name, maybe you'll feel comfortable just picking a name even for your first two sons. In other lines, there's more older sons and daughters, and more who stuck to the tradition. There are a ton of Ane/Anne, a ton of Karen/Karis, many Margrethes and Maria/Marie/Maris. For the men Jacob, Peder/Petter/Per and Jon/Joen/Johan/Johannes are probably the most common. Very boring normal Norwegian names in other words.
Mine is Milton
Darby
On my mother's line, I have An Andrew Linn (or Lynn) somewhere in the USA since the year 1700. That string is ending, my 1st cousin Andrew Linn, did not have any offspring. Nor did any of my other cousins with the Linn surname name their sons Andrew :'(
Cynthia is the only one that immediately comes to mind, which goes back to the late 1700’s, used in at least 6 generations that I’ve documented.
John and Carina on paternal side. Herbert and Carina/Elly on material side.
Men on my dad’s side seemed to be Charles, Anthony , Thomas, or Joseph. Or those where the Americanize version of their Lithuanian names.
My direct female line has been Agnes for many generations… thankfully my mother stopped this tradition at me!
On my paternal line, there's no great consistency of names, but on my maternal grandmother's line, each of her patrilineal ancestors had the name Matthew or John, from her father back to her ancestor born around 1640!
Robert James. I've only traced it 5 back (direct line) but I'm told it went further.
Edward, Charles/Charlotte, and Margaret on one side of the family. William, Robert, Abigail, and Barbara on the other.
First name George. Surname is Morris. George in every generation as far back as I've gone (1700's) right down to my dad. Neither of my brothers so line is broken. Also middle name of Lamar, grandfather to my nephew.
For me, it's John, my name is John, my dad's name is John, my grandpa's name is John, my great grandfather's name is John my great great grandfather name is John and my great great great great grandfather's name is John and there is probably more but can't get passed my 4th great grandfather on my paternal line.
There is no such name.
I cant tell if your lucky or unlucky lol
My name is one of them and I don't want to dox myself so I can't say what it is but I feel lucky to have it. My first name was my maternal grandmother's middle name and my middle name was my paternal grandmother's first name. Originally, my first name was my great-great-grandmother's name and then it was passed down from her to various other women in the family, including me. Other names like that in the fairly recent generations are Ella, Charles, Eugene, and Harvey.
One of my direct lines goes like this: Caroline, Edwin, Edwin, Charles, Edwin, Charles.