More names. What are some of the more unusual names in your family tree?

[GreenPartyVoter]

My husband has a distant ancestor whose name was HateEvil. I sure hope they called her Hattie as a baby. :scared:

[Skittles]

1. my great grandmother was named TONE

Norwegian, pronounced more like "Tone-eh"

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I wonder if that's how this is pronounced?

I have always wondered about that.

[MorningGlow]

3. My great grandmother

was named Crucifissa. Yes, Italian for crucifix. :scared:

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. What kind of cute nickname can you get from that?? Sa-sa, maybe?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I got nothing.

The men in my family have been named James, Robert or William for the last four hundred years.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Yeah. My side is littered with Johns. (No off-color jokes, please. LOL) Hubby's had an

Ambrose, though. That's kind of cool. :)

[Graybeard]

13. Ambrose Chapell?

Taxidermy is weird.;) ( Somewhat obscure Hitchcock reference.)

[Graybeard]

6. Bloomingdale.

My great-grandmother's maiden name. We have tried desperately to find a link
to the store-chain Bloomingdale's but with no success.:-(

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Aw, bummer.

[pink-o]

23. Yeah, I have the same last name as the ambassador to France..

But something tells me if I showed up at the American Embassy in Paris and flashed my passport, I wouldn't exactly get the royal treatment!!!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. Poulter

My great-grandfather's first name.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. That's a new one on me. :^)

[Capn Sunshine]

8. Hortense

I can't imagine naming a baby girl that. She was a favorite aunt. But dayum...

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. My great+ aunt (b. 1900) was horrified when my parents named me Jennifer, because it was such

an old lady name. LOL

[Capn Sunshine]

14. we named our first girl Jennifer

and did not consult w/anyone beforehand. Had no idea we were part of a wave---when we went to her first open house inkindergarten, I walked in and said "I'm Jennifer's dad" and was really surprised when the teacher looks back at me and says "which one? Jenny R , Jennie A, Jenny C, Jenny D, Jenny L, Jenny M , Jenny P or Jenny H?

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Yeah, same here. I was one of 3 in my class and there were some ahead and behind me. Thanks so much,

freakin LOVE STORY. LOL (I've never actually even seen it.)

[LiberalEsto]

15. Epp

That was my father's grandmother's first name. It's Estonian. Sometimes it was spelled Hip.

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. That's a short name. :^)

[LiberalEsto]

20. Estonians have lots of short names

and a lot of them seem weird to non-Estonians:

Some female names: Ene, Tia, Tiiu, Mai, Kaja, Liis, Ly, Mall, Aino, Viiu, Anu, Kati, Ella, Hele, Pia, Ulle

Some male names: Ott, Tiit, Ants, Jaak, Ets, Miku, Juku, Jaan, Olev, Uuno, Arno

[femmocrat]

18. My mother had a cousin named Spurgeon.

No idea where it came from.

[Odin2005]

19. My newphew's name is Airasen.

[Capn Sunshine]

21. Prosper

My Wifes grandfather. Kinda Cool

[greendog]

22. Mom's grandfather's name was Onora. His brothers and sisters were...

...Orlando, Icelener, Ivarretta, Prussia, Admiral, Erastus, and Beatrice. One of his daughters was named Arminta.

[pink-o]

24. I'm a half-breed: Dad's family is Ashkenazi Jew and Mom's is Anglo/Irish white trash.

So my Dad's family has names like Chaim, Salem, Reuben, and Malka. Mom's are Opal, Racy, Emmet and Glodine. (Sound's like trailer-trash characters from "Sordid Lives"!)

[wickerwoman]

25. Came close to being named after my grandmother:

Albina.

Can't think of anything more horrifying that going through life as a female "Alby" or "Bina".

I have a cousin called Buttercup but she goes by her middle name. ;)

[kentauros]

29. Well, at least your parents didn't seriously consider calling you "Wolfgang"

;)

Their common sense finally kicked in and I got Eric. Along with all the other Erics I knew growing up and the five of us in HS band, two of us even in the same section! (euphonium) :D

[LeftyMom]

26. My great grandparents were Angus and Zilpha.

[soleiri]

27. My grandmother's name is Jesus.

Grandmother.
Jesus.

We called her Grandma Jessie. :)

[kentauros]

28. I'm not sure of the spelling (despite searching online)

but my great grandmother on my mother's side was Fadis and she wasn't middle-eastern or from the Mediterranean. The 'a' is short, not long :)

We also shared the same birthday :D

[hippywife]

30. I was almost named for one of

my Italian great-grandmothers who died before I was born. My name would have been Fidela, pronounced Fee-day-la. They also considered naming me Fredericka for my father.

[DemBones DemBones]

31. First name Maud. . . wait for it. . . middle name

Zillah. Yes, Maud Zillah. For real, and predating the Japanese monster by fifty-sixty years.