In the ancestors-with-funny-names contest, I win.

My grandmother's name was Wavie T. No middle name, the T didn't stand for anything. Nobody called her Wavie. She was Wavie T. Her father just liked the sound of it.

My grandfather's name was Epaphroditas, named after his grandfather. The doctor who did the delivery couldn't spell it, and so all that's on his birth certificate is E.P. Which is what he was called, except for the people who inexplicably called him Pete.

I love names!

WAP and EEP

Sounds like cause and effect.

Go Flora!

Lillian is LEEM.

There was some talk of naming her Lillian Isobel Aileen, just so she could be LIAM, but I was overruled.

Ooh, names. My current favorite name is Violet.

Not sure what we'd name another girl, since our second choice for Annabel was Eleanor, and I think AnnabEL and ELeanor would sound silly and singsong as sister names. I like Harriet, but I'm afraid it might sound too frumpy alongside Annabel.

Sounds like cause and effect.

In the ancestors-with-funny-names contest, I win.

I'd like to submit my entry. I'm descended from Brizella and Elkanah and Herschel and Hyman and Lascelles and Phelon and Wendel and Zephie. I'm related to Nonaine and Shanga and Bonica and Gilette and Disdale and Hughgine and Kadeed and Kermit and Kiesha and Wentworth and Leston and Naisha and Querida and Shamari and Sheree and others.

I think I have a shot at second place, and I'm willing to submit middle names to back that up.

I also like Fiona, but our neighbors have one (which wouldn't necessarily rule it out, of course), and I love Maria and Miriam, but I don't think Dylan does.

I've always liked Chloe. If I had a baby girl (yeah, right) I'd name her Chloe.

While I think ita wins, I think I can get honorable mention for my great-great-grandfather, Colonel Maneus Lemley F. (Colonel was a name, not a rank), and my great-grandmother, Ann Hazeltine C.