What’s in a name?

My dad's father was Henry Christian. My grandfather was James, and my dad and I are also James. I'm a junior, in fact. My mom is Bonnie, her sisters are Bridget and Gail. My cousins are April, Kim (not Kimberly), Lisa, Laura, Scottie, I have had Uncles Dennis, Clarence, Ronald and Carl. My sister's kids are Ivana, Ian, CJ (Curtis James) and Caleb. My grandmother on my mother's side was Bearnice and on my dad's side was Constance. I have a half-sister named Theresa (pronounced Tair-ray-za) and other aunts named Connie, Sarajane, and Chris. My sister's name is Jessica. I have second cousins named Shyann, Miranda and Brianna. One of my grandmother's sisters was named Viola. My grandfather's sister was Margaret. Cadwallader is a name I have never heard before. Interesting name though.

I never thought about the given names of my ancestors but now you've peaked my curiosity, I just hope I can find that kind of information on some website

Wow! We have a few Casey (all boys), several named Marie, and a few extras named Terri or Terry. But most of them all chose different first names from each other. It’s in the middle names they are very similar (a LOT of Joys and Elizabeths).

We have different way to settle on our names from yours.We like "love our motherland,victory ,progression,etc" in a name.

I've never heard the name Cadwallader. That seems a very strange one.

I don't know much about my husband's side of the family; and my family came from Italy.

We have several Elisabeths, Walters, Davids and a couple of Edwins. Repeating the same names down the generations does make genealogy research much more difficult I have found!

I think Ronald, but I have never looked at the old family tree