Baby names are tough, but one classic option that’s hard to regret is naming your kid after a grandparent or other relative. Because this tradition is fairly common, you’d think a 108-year-old great-great grandfather with 71 descendants would have more than a few babies named after him?but nope.
Among his six children, 17 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren, none of them took his name. Now, you’d think that his moniker was something totally outdated like Ebenezer or else seriously random, but it’s not. In fact, we think his name is actually super cute in an old-timey, hipster kind of way that’s definitely in right now.

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