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For Olive's son, Nervous, please look under the Beaker Family.

* '''[[Ophelia Nigmos]]''' (Olive's niece): Derived from the Greek word ''ophelos'' meaning "help." Ophelia is also the doomed love interest of Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

* '''[[Willow Nigmos]]''' (Ophelia's mother, Olive's sister): Refers to the willow tree or more appropriately, the weeping willow tree. This would be more fitting to the Specter family's melancholy name theme.

* '''[[Goshem Loste]]''' (Kristen's paternal grandfather): Possibly a curruption of "Goshen" which refers to the "Land of Goshen," the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the pharaoh of Joseph. This name in combination with Loste sounds like "Gosh, I'm lost" which is fitting considering he was abducted by aliens.

* '''[[Vera Loste]]''' (Kristen's paternal grandmother): Of Russian or Latin origin. It coincides with the Latin ''verus'' meaning "verity." In Russian, ''vera'' means "faith." This name in combination with Loste sounds like "very lost."

* '''[[Leonard Simnitch]]''' (Kristen's maternal grandfather): Derived from the Old High German name "Leonhard," from ''levon'' meaning "lion" and ''hardu'' meaning "brave" or "hardy." It may also be derived from the Latin ''leo'' meaning "lion."

* '''[[Petunia Simnitch]]''' (Kristen's maternal grandmother): Of English origin referring to the petunia flower.

 

==The [[Loner Family]]==

* '''[[Kavi Loner]]''' (Ajay's paternal grandfather): Kavi (from a root kū "to cry out") is a Sanskrit term for thinker, intelligent man, man of understanding or a leader.

* '''[[Jeevika Loner]]''' (Ajay's paternal grandmother): Unknown

* '''[[Bhu Frehndly]]''' (Ajay's maternal grandfather) : the act of becoming or arising, the place of being, space, world or universe or the earth.

* '''[[Milony Frehndly]]''' (Ajay's maternal grandmother) : Form of Melany/Melanie meaning Black, Could also mean Melon.