Surely this can't be that uncommon. This Troper's mother was named after his grandmother (as was one of her sisters, actually.), this Troper has three brothers named after Grandparents, this Troper himself has got a middle name off of his father (Though he still lives).

This troper is a fifth-generation Katherine; there are three of us still alive as of this writing. Also, her father is a third and her sister is named for the other grandmother. (This troper suspects her family might not be all that creative when it comes to naming kids.)

This Troper shares her name with both her grandmothers (one was dead before she was born, the other's still alive) and one of her grandfathers (died before she was born too) had a very similar name to hers.

This Troper's family names children after ''both'' grandparents of the same gender - one as the first name, one as the middle name. It alternates between children as to whether the first name comes from the maternal or paternal grandparents.

This Troper knew a boy named "Edward... the eighth". Yes, in his family, EVERYONE named their son Edward. He even had an heirloom with all the Edwards' dates of birth and death written on them.

This troper's middle name is that of her late grandmother.

According to This Troper's mother, it's a Jewish tradition.

Mercifully averted with this troper's husband, who was born three days after his maternal grandfather died. His mother shot down the suggestion by pointing out her father ''hated'' the name "Ferdinand," so why would she want to saddle her child with it?

This tropers father was named after his uncle, who had died very young shortly before his birth. Said troper is also named after his father, but the later is thankfully still very much alive.

Every female in this tropers family has the middle name Louise but nobody seems to remember who the first one was.

This troper was named after a favorite uncle of his father's who commited suicide via plugging himself in the head (No, he didn't leave a note, in case you were wondering), who was always refered to as Uncle. And now this troper's sister has had a daughter... so again 'Uncle Paul' has come into existance. No worries on history repeating, this troper isn't that type of person :D

A variant: This troper has the same ''middle'' name as her late sister. Strangely, I once had a classmate guess what it was before I even dropped a hint. Marie, if you must know.

Averted by my brother, who is named after our still-living father.

Nobody involved is dead, but this troper has his father's first initial and last name. Troper's brother has their grandfather's first initial and last name. The troper isn't sure about the other brother, but he's probably named for a more distant relative.

This Troper's paternal great-grandfather died about a month before she was born, and her grandmother suggested several feminine variations on his name for her. Dad had already promised to name his first son after his grandfather, though, so Troper was named by her mother instead. Flash forward to the birth of Troper's younger brother, and now, since our maternal grandfather was very sick (he died shortly after), Mom slipped him in as a middle name. I... should not be laughing at the Main/HarryPotter examples, should I?

@/SacredSturgeon's older brother inherited his name from his grandfather. My dad inherited his name from his grandfather. His dad's dad inherited his name from his grandfather. His dad inherited his name from his grandfather. Those of you gifted in the art of pattern recognition can probably guess who his father was named after. Meanwhile I got my name from an uncle who probably also had it passed down to him from just a tad too many generations. I come from a depressingly uncreative family.

This Troper knows for a fact that she would BE this trope if she had not been born female. Her parents did inform her her name would have been her grandfather's. Considering it now, she rather prefers her girl name to her guy name.

That would have been this Troper's case too; her little brother ended up using the name instead. Had he been a girl, though, he would have been named after our grandmother.

In one of this troper's works in progress, two childhood friends who wind up married in the epilogue name their daughter after a mutual (male) friend who died to protect the mother. It helps that the friend had a gender-neutral name (Hikaru).

This Troper's first name is that of a friend of her mother who died in a car accident in her youth. Her mother didn't want to tell the story till she was 22. This Troper has three more names of relatives but they were all alive during her naming.

This troper's name is the feminine version of her great-grandpa's name. We even share a birthday.

@/{{Kathadrion}}'s first name was her paternal grandmother's middle name. She was still alive when I was born, though. And I'm the fourth generation on my mother's side with the middle name Ingalill. Three of us are still alive. Oh, and my maternal grandmother named her cats after her maternal grandparents, and then my mother went and named her cats after ''her'' maternal grandparents, and I'm sorry, but that's a tradition I won't be following!

This troper's father was named after his older half brother who died in the holocaust as a baby (he has changed his name however as he preferred the hebrew version to the polish one). This troper's older brother's middle name was in honor of said father's father. This troper is undecided at the moment on whether or not he will name his own son, should he ever have one, after his own brother, a subject he thinks about often despite having no intentions of having children for at least several years.

Fairly common in this troper's family. And complicated, she now realizes. First off, for a couple generations every first son of the first son was named Harold, although her cousin broke it years ago, and her mother was named for her aunt, who died the day before she was born. She herself has her grandmother's name as her middle name, both her siblings middle names are the maiden names of our two grandmothers, her brother is named for their great-grandfather and her sister is named for their great aunt.

This troper possibly subverts this, in that her parents didn't know they were naming her after her great grandmother until her father nervously approached her grandmother about it (it's tradition in her family to be named after a dead relative) and was surprised that the nickname he'd been calling his grandma all his life wasn't her real name.

She also knew a girl who had been named for both her grandmothers, by combining their names.

This troper's girlfriend is named after her mother's dead twin sister. Not in the usual way, mind, but in that ''her initials spell out the dead twin's name''. She has a ''stupid'' number of middle names.

My grandmother was named Kathleen because she looked very similar to her late older sister Katherine as a baby. Now Kathleen has traveled down the family (I'm one) so are we all Dead Guy Juniors?

This troper's (now deceased) grandfather's twin brother (who is also deceased) shared the same name as me: William. Anyone who has read the "Just William" books will be able to work out why I want to change my name...for the confused, the title character is called "William Brown". I know it is great when you are five, but when you are seventeen, it is really embarrasing. I just hope it was coincidence...

This troper's parents had an elderly friend who lived across the street from them in their first house. The old man, named Martin, died when I was about 3. Three years after that, my brother came along and was named first for our deceased neighbor, secondly for our dad. This troper also has a teddy bear, given to him by the elderly neighbor Martin. The bear's name is the same as my brother's. ~ferlessleedr

This troperette's middle name is Ruth, after her great-grandmother (her father's grandmother), although she was still alive when the troper was born.

When this troper and her twin sister were three years old and our mother was crying because her Aunt Mildred died, we named a teddy bear Aunt Mildred and gave it to her to make her feel better. Also, we were given slightly modified and feminized versions of our great-grandfather's and grandfather's names.

According to this troper's family lore his sister shares her first name with our mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, great-great-great-grandmother, great-great-great-great-grandmother, and great-great-great-great-great-grandmother. Curiously, it's always the youngest girl in each family that was given the name.

This Troper shares her middle name with her deceased Grandfather,making this a gender-bent example. Her male cousin also shares his first name with our Grandfather, but he (like Papa) goes by his middle name.

My mother was named after her great-great-grandmother.