Here's one for you, listers: My paternal grandmother was born Gromania Katherine Hanni. Although she hated her first name to the point of making me promise I would never name my children Gromania (not a difficult promise, although I may use Katherine), she used the name until her death. Her parents (both sides) were the children of Swiss immigrants, from Eggiwil and Oberbalm, Canton Bern. I'm familiar with the family naming traditions, but her mother was Mary Anne Elizabeth Hanni. Nowhere can I find grandmothers, aunts, any other female relative with this name, and I've never heard it anywhere else. Can anybody shed some light on this name -- either its meanings or its derivation? It's not key to my research, but I've always wondered. Amy O'Hara