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Tangerine nn Tangi

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LaLaLaLavaChChChChicken · 01/06/2025 04:02

Doing some family research and have come across the name Tangerine, with the nn of Tangi, for a girl.

What very unusual names have you got in your family tree?

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Zippidydoodah · 01/06/2025 14:59

No interesting names here, sadly.

i do love Elizabelle, though!

NorthernDancer · 01/06/2025 14:53

MidnightPatrol · 01/06/2025 13:03

Do you live in Utah?

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Family origins in the East Midlands!

Icedcaramelfrappe · 01/06/2025 14:51

We have a Lettice and a Geronimo

Denimrules · 01/06/2025 14:49

We had a relative who was Esther but known as Tet.

My aunty was Vivienne but preferred her middle name, Maud.

Way back there was a Winifred

DH had a relative named Eryl, possibly a welsh name

JDM625 · 01/06/2025 14:46

Rock and Dalton.

Both men from 6 generations ago from different parts of my family tree.

ARainyNightInSoho · 01/06/2025 14:46

@FormerlyPathologicallyHappy Sidney/Sydney is a ‘normal’ name for a girl though. Maybe not that common, but normal.

JMSA · 01/06/2025 14:44

Tangerine is bloody awful. Tangi is cute.

TheyreLikeUsButRichAndThin · 01/06/2025 14:41

Growlling · 01/06/2025 04:05

My Nan was called Henrietta, which isn’t as unusual as Tangerine but you never hear of it these days. My grandpa was Percy.

Agree, I know lots of Harriets which is a diminutive of Henrietta, never hear of Henrietta! But masses of Henrys. I know two young Percys though!

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 01/06/2025 14:39

HeyYouTheRockSteadyCrew · 01/06/2025 09:49

I have a man in my family with the first name Christmas!

Christmas Humphreys the judge?

Denimrules · 01/06/2025 14:38

Tooteefrootee · 01/06/2025 05:51

Lettice. Waaaaay back, but a variation of Letitia, apparently.

Boris Johnson has Lara Lettice as a daughter

DelboytrottersDnecklace · 01/06/2025 14:37

All mine (as far back as I know) where pretty boring

Alice,Nancy,lousia and Doris,Rose,Charlotte,matilda
Thomas,Leonard and Ernest

The best 'old,old' name I've ever heard was 'Cockshot'

That made my day and I did suggest it (as a joke) to ds when his wife was pregnant

Baby dodged a bullet on 2 parts by having parents who told me to 'fuck off' (while laughing at me) and by being a girl

Tarkan · 01/06/2025 14:33

Ivytheterrible2025 · 01/06/2025 13:24

I love the name Henrietta.
Do they just call her by her full name, or Hettie/ Etta?

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My great-grandmother was also a Henrietta. My gran had Hetty as one of her middle names so I assume that’s the nickname my g-grandmother went by.

SherlockHolmes · 01/06/2025 13:57

I have quite a few unusual names in my family tree:

Mahala
Madonna
Trafalgar
Alomas

All working class Suffolk names.

ToadRage · 01/06/2025 13:50

Apparently many years ago my husband lived with a Jamaican girl called Alice who brothers were called Paddington and Darlington.

MaggieBsBoat · 01/06/2025 13:50

I sorely regret calling my children boring names. These are really great! I do love Tangerine.

We have no interesting names, except a lot of female and male Morgans for some reason. Which is pretty boring too. I wanted a Ptolemy but that got turned down.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 01/06/2025 13:46

My grandfather (born about 1880) was 1 of 8. There were 5 boys all had surname first names; Benson, Huntley, Palmer, Randle, apart from my GF who was Arthur.

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LaLaLaLavaChChChChicken · 01/06/2025 13:43

These are all great! No, no daughter called Tangerine for me.

We have some who passed the mothers surname down the line via middle names for quite a few generations.

Other random first names from my tree are:

Male:
Meyrick
Avram
Porhos
Lovejoy

Female:
Chastity
Birdie
Gentle

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Ivytheterrible2025 · 01/06/2025 13:24

Judiezones · 01/06/2025 11:23

There's a 7 year old Henrietta a few doors away from me.

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I love the name Henrietta.
Do they just call her by her full name, or Hettie/ Etta?

StMarie4me · 01/06/2025 13:13

FormerlyPathologicallyHappy · 01/06/2025 13:01

Same.

My colleague called her first born Sidney for a girl. Next one got a normal name so assuming she came to her senses.

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There are 2 female Sidneys in my DGD class.

StMarie4me · 01/06/2025 13:11

TheyFuckYouUpYourMamAndDad · 01/06/2025 05:58

My grandad (who died before I was born) was called Hagar (pronounced Hay Garr).

Hagar was a cartoon in newspaper. He was a Viking!

WrongDitton · 01/06/2025 13:11

Family folklore had someone who was born when his mother was travelling to India in the 19th century - I was delighted to discover little Hibernia in my research, named after his troopship of birth.

I also quite liked Oliver, whose middle name was Cromwell. No family link whatsoever, they apparently just liked the way it flowed.

Freysimo · 01/06/2025 13:10

One of my grans was called Lovena. She said her father had seen the name on a ship and liked it. Unfortunately many people thought it was a misspelt Lavinia.

ToadRage · 01/06/2025 13:03

My cousin (boy) is called Joscelin, everyone calls him Joss, We honestly thought this was a joke but apparently its one of those names that was historically male but has over time become used for females like Evelyn and Angel.

MidnightPatrol · 01/06/2025 13:03

NorthernDancer · 01/06/2025 09:12

Kerenhappuch, Rechebina, Hephzibah, take your pick. We have an elderly neighbour called Zilpah.

Do you live in Utah?

ladygindiva · 01/06/2025 13:02

We have about five generations of men called Mungo back pre war