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Wed 8 Jan, 2003 10:20 pm
Sitting here, recalling names of actual relatives from the past. There were:
Villa, Ploner, Appalonie, DeWitt, Hattie, Muriel, Rowan, Hughlan, and quite a few more I can't call to mind. Feel free to add to the list if you like. All I ask is that they be legitemate names.
Lots of Ethels, Celias, Harrys, Yentas, Louises, Jacks, etc. Since we are Ashkenazi Jews (mostly; I'm also part Sephardic), we name after the dead, so the names keep repeating. And now, we get similar names (to be more modern) but the same Hebrew names, e. g. Heather for Harry, Melinda for Murray, Corinne for Celia, Adam for Alvin, etc. Now, some of the names are coming around again, like Molly, Sam and Jack - these are all kids under 18 yet named for people who were born in the late 1800s.
Odus (that's how my great grandpappy spelled it). Jethro. Anything biblical with more than three syllables. (Ezekiel comes to mind.)
Odessa, Hazel, Beatrice, Rosa, Rebecca, Cecil, Furman, Samuel, Roland Bernard, Darious Owens, Frederick Carl, Cleveland Wardell, James Adolph...
That depend on what YOU call 'antique': Beatrice, Rosa, Rebecca, Frederick for instance are actually very modern names in Germany.
Thelma, Lillian, Ida, Celeste, Hilton....all relatives with older names..I also have an Ezekial
Warren, Roy, Maxine, Earlene, Audrey, Eugene
I almost got named after my grandmother, Agnes, but my dad put his foot down. I was once perusing the family tree of a friend, and twin girls were born, children #8 and 9, and they were named Silent and Submit. Ancient names that were inspired by virtues such as Patience, Charity and Faith I can understand, but Silence and Submit?
After 7 children, I guess those parents were going for some Silence and Submission in the house!
More family names...Wilbur, Horace, Elliot, Ernest, Morris.
My first wife was named for her grandmother - Gladys Opal.
Ooh! How could I forget Eoline, Cora, Eunice, Augre Bea and Rhodabelle.
Two aunts - twins - Lillie May and Willie Fay
My grandmother and her sister were named Tillie and Lillie. We once named pet rabbits after them - I don't think they were too flattered!
My mother's name Marcella
My moms family,
Loretta
Dorothy
Florence
Charlotte
Ruth
but honestly,
Submit and Silence as names
gross!
Oh I forgot one that is REALLY
strange - and I know a young
woman who is named this after
her mother - DEREMA
My father's name was Gustavus Adolphus (we still don't know why). When each of my son's three sons were born, I asked if one could be named for my father. So what we've got are Matthew, Dillon, and Zachary.
Hermonius- never knew old Hermie, name is on a tombstone Elsie
Sadie
Velma
Esther
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