Magnificent names of the past

[Pabappa]

I went to school with a "Jessica Hollway-Painter" (pronounced hallway)

[Brel]

That's just plain crazy. I wonder if they planned their pregnancies to stop after the 5 vowels....

Planning pregnancies? lol

I don't have the chart in front of me, but I'm pretty sure they had other daughters (and sons) who weren't part of this nifty naming system. All the colonial families had bajillions of children every generation, and unlike in the Old World they didn't even die in childhood, thus freeing up the name for surviving siblings. Parents had to get creative. Just look at the Mormons!

[Viktor77]

That's just plain crazy. I wonder if they planned their pregnancies to stop after the 5 vowels....

Planning pregnancies? lol

I don't have the chart in front of me, but I'm pretty sure they had other daughters (and sons) who weren't part of this nifty naming system. All the colonial families had bajillions of children every generation, and unlike in the Old World they didn't even die in childhood, thus freeing up the name for surviving siblings. Parents had to get creative. Just look at the Mormons!

Ah, the good ol' colonials and their fun names for children.

Should I ever have a bunch of children I will name them:
Alfred
Edmund
Adelaide
Winder
Erskine
Watson
Elliot

There's a trend, I named them after a subdivision where in turn the subdivision creator named them after his children (except Winder, we don't know where that came from).

Although if I wanted to give my child a bad ass name it'd be Ledyard. That or Philo.

[Pole, the]

EDIT: also, my ancestors decided to name their five daughters Ada, Eda, Ida, Oda, and Uda. Not making this up.

Well, in Polish there are Ala, Ela, Ola and Ula being real female names (or, to be strict, shortcuts of their full forms: Alicja, Elżbieta, Aleksandra and Urszula).

[Viktor77]

Urszula

Ie. our Ursula? Is this name common?

[Pole, the]

Urszula

Ie. our Ursula? Is this name common?

Not so common, but neither rare. This site states that in 2004 there were ca. 200 000 Urszulas.

[Shm Jay]

There’s the Y series of -da names: Yadda, Yedda, Yidda, Yodda, Yudda, Yeeda, Youda, and don’t forget Yoda. Now you know who he was related to.

By the way, is "Art, Bart, Chart, Dart, and Frank" a funnier series of names than my other joke?

[Arzena]

The mythological Sumerian kings had some kick-ass names: Alulim, Alalngar, Enmenluana, Dumuzid the Shepherd, Ensipadzidana

[Qwynegold]

I knew some siblings called Kai, Kim, Ken and Kia.

Urszula

Ie. our Ursula? Is this name common?

Not so common, but neither rare. This site states that in 2004 there were ca. 200 000 Urszulas.

There's a Pole at my work practice called Urzula. But maybe they just misspelled her name?

[Qwynegold]

The mythological Sumerian kings had some kick-ass names: Alulim, Alalngar, Enmenluana, Dumuzid the Shepherd, Ensipadzidana

Several Mesopotamian names were awsome: Nebuchadnezzar, Nabopolassar, Suppiluliuma, Nergal.

EDIT: Ah, Suppiluliuma was Hittite.

[Hallow XIII]

Suppiluliuma

Hittite <3

[hwhatting]

The mythological Sumerian kings had some kick-ass names: Alulim, Alalngar, Enmenluana, Dumuzid the Shepherd, Ensipadzidana

Several Mesopotamian names were awsome: Nebuchadnezzar, Nabopolassar, Suppiluliuma, Nergal.

I agree that Suppiluliuma is an awesome name, but since when are the Hittites a Mesopotamian people?
EDIT: May the thousand gods bless Hallow, he who ninja'd me.

[Drydic]

The mythological Sumerian kings had some kick-ass names: Alulim, Alalngar, Enmenluana, Dumuzid the Shepherd, Ensipadzidana

Several Mesopotamian names were awsome: Nebuchadnezzar, Nabopolassar, Suppiluliuma, Nergal.

I agree that Suppiluliuma is an awesome name, but since when are the Hittites a Mesopotamian people?

They were very much within the Mesopotamian cultural spheroidalickian area.

[Thry]

Please, please Viktor, don't name anybody Philo!

[hwhatting]

The mythological Sumerian kings had some kick-ass names: Alulim, Alalngar, Enmenluana, Dumuzid the Shepherd, Ensipadzidana

Several Mesopotamian names were awsome: Nebuchadnezzar, Nabopolassar, Suppiluliuma, Nergal.

I agree that Suppiluliuma is an awesome name, but since when are the Hittites a Mesopotamian people?

They were very much within the Mesopotamian cultural spheroidalickian area.

Granted. But that still doesn't makes them Mesopotamian, just as being in the Anglo-American pop cultural sphere doesn't make me Anglo-American. If he'd written "Ancient Oriental", I wouldn't have protested.

[Viktor77]

Please, please Viktor, don't name anybody Philo!

Why?

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

I always have fun presenting my own full name. Japanese people freak out at my official name in Canada. I have one of those old French Catholic names.

Otherwise, I had cousins, brother and sister, who were called Silvain and Silvie. Basically, male and female version of the same name.

[Civil War Bugle]

I always have fun presenting my own full name. Japanese people freak out at my official name in Canada. I have one of those old French Catholic names.

Otherwise, I had cousins, brother and sister, who were called Silvain and Silvie. Basically, male and female version of the same name.

One of those names like Yves-Marie-Joseph-Saint-Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Samuel-Champlain-Alain Lefèvre? That's a pretty good name, I think I'll give that name to my next-born child.

[Qwynegold]

EDIT: May the thousand gods bless Hallow, he who ninja'd me.

Haha, and the several people who ninja'd me. Something came up, so when I returned to the computer several hours had already passed.

[KathTheDragon]

The great-great-great-grandfather of King David (of biblical fame) was named Salmon.

Also, a great*20-grandson of King David was named Zerubbabel.

[Risla]

I am rather fond of the name of the linguist Balthasar Bickel, who sounds like he just escaped from a Harry Potter book.

[Nortaneous]

speaking of linguists, I have a grammar of Atong written by a guy named Jonkheer Egbert Joost Seino Clifford Kocq van Breugel

[hwhatting]

speaking of linguists, I have a grammar of Atong written by a guy named Jonkheer Egbert Joost Seino Clifford Kocq van Breugel

Well, Jonkheer is just a noble title, but even without that the name is impressive.

[Rui]

speaking of linguists, I have a grammar of Atong written by a guy named Jonkheer Egbert Joost Seino Clifford Kocq van Breugel

I have no idea why, but it reminds me of the director of collections at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, whose name is Taco Dibbits

[Radius Solis]

I am rather fond of the name of the linguist Balthasar Bickel, who sounds like he just escaped from a Harry Potter book.

Were his brothers Gaspar and Melchior, by any chance?


Incidentally, one of the best names I've ever encountered on a real person belongs to a ZBBer, but I'm not about to name a board member without their consent. I had hoped he'd post.

And then there was Space Dracula, whose name was in trochaic pentameter. Though I'm not saying what that was either; he probably wouldn't mind but it's not my place to do that.