What's In A Name

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Historic Event":

Nice that your grandson gave his daughter his mom's name for her middle name
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The baby's mother's name is Mary. 
Her  grandmother's name is  Mary. 
Mary is her great-grandmother's (moi) second name.Her other great-grandmother's name was Mary. 
To say it's   a family nameseems somewhat redundant.
Mine is the first generation of my family that didn't have Mary for a first name. 
In my mother's generation, family names were repeated in a pattern. 
The first son was named after the maternal grandfather,the second son after the paternal grandfather. 
Daughters were similarly named. 
My oldest  sister's name was Annie. My mother's name was Annie. Her mother's name was Annie.  My mother's oldest sister   was named Kate  Her  father's mother was Kate and maternal grandmother was Jean.
Names kept being repeated. 
My Grandfather's name was Henry. His son was Harry. and his son was Wee Harry; the son  as opposed to the father. 
In a Catholic family the names of saints were  expected to be used.
Eyebrows were raised at "fancy"names  never used before.If not by the family by the parish priest.They always had a lot to say about things.
In my family Mary has appeared in various forms. Evelyn, not so much.
My mother's teen-aged sister Mary was my Godmother. She was allowed to choose my name. I as fourth born and another girl.
Aunt Mary had a  good friend  known as Ivy but her name was Evelyn. 
Mary liked the name and liked her friend, so I was given the name, Evelyn Mary.