My cousin had her first kid and named him Theodore Leo.
The kicker:
She has most certainly never heard of Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

I'm gonna buy them Hearts of Oak, just as a gag.

Anyway... YAY for my cousin Cindy and her hubby Peter!

People still name their kids Ted?

Hmph.

Well that kid rocks, in my book.

Ted = Named for the dad's father (Theodore)
Leo = Named for the mother's father (Leonard, my uncle)

Both passed away within the last 4 years.

Oh. Well make sense then.

<--- feels like an ass.

No reason
For the ass feelin'
You wasn't in the know
so you shouldn't be low

Sorry about the lame rhyme.
Listening to Eric B. & Rakim.
It has that effect on me, I think.

i can't seem to get my wife to agree to go with my grandfather's name - LaMoyne. LaMoyne Paris would be pimp I think.

My cousin recently went with the grandfather's-name thing and named her son Manfred.

On the other hand, when my sister had a boy four years ago, my father Herbert insisted that his grandchild not be named after him.

i'm not into that naming people after dead people business. It's a nice tribute and all, but a first name is a first name, one of the few places where uniqueness can be instilled in a person. Ted's kind of cool though.

My sons are both names after relatives who passed:
Cary (my uncle) Jerome (my grandfather)
and
Ethan (for my wife's grandmother Ethel) Vern (my wife's grandfather)

I also happen to like both of their names.

Ted... Just Admit It.

Why does hideous lump have a drawing of me as his avatar?

I too thought it was Whiney when I first saw it. Or that dude from Iron and Wine.

because you look like an unemployed man who lives with his parents in new jersey?

My son Charlie is named after his dad's deceased grandfather. I actually picked out the name in the kitchen one day with my ex's mom and when I said it she told me it was his grandfather's name and smiled and I said well alright then, that works.

Josh and I have toyed with the idea of naming our future first born male Gram. Mainly because we both like the name and also cause he has a huge obsession with Gram Parsons.

GOAL!

And Gram is almost Marc backwards.

(I guess you wouldn't want to name him Cram.)

My first name was almost taken from my great-grandfather....Homer...yeah I would have had a happy well-adjusted childhood