Campbell Child Naming Practices In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, both the Scots and the Irish had a frequently used scheme for child naming. The first born male child was normally named after the paternal grandfather; likewise, the first borne female child was named after the maternal grandmother. The second borne male child was named after the maternal grandfather and the second borne female child was named after the paternal grandmother. Only with the third born son and daughter, did you use the names of the parents, if those names differed from those of the grandparents. In many but not all cases, this naming scheme seems to have been used by the Southwest Virginia Campbell families that are discussed at this web site. THIS IS WHAT CAUSED THE REASON FOR NICK NAMES THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE WITH THE SAME FIRST & LAST NAMES. NICK NAMES WERE NEEDED TO KNOW ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT. CUZ AT