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LaLaLaLavaChChChChicken · 2025-06-01T03:02:32+00:00

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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FormerlyPathologicallyHappy · 01/06/2025 13:01

Clearinguptheclutter · 01/06/2025 08:58

Oh phew I thought you were going to say you were planning on calling your daughter Tangerine

Same.

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

BarbaraVineFan · 01/06/2025 12:58

My great-grandmother’s name was Mahala. I didn’t know how to pronounce it but apparently it’s Ma- hail- ah (I would have assumed Ma-hah-la).

Words · 01/06/2025 12:50

Sexy. I kid you not. Early 18thc so wouldn't have had the meaning it does now.

Elsewhere she was Sexa (sixth child) so a mishearing.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 01/06/2025 12:46

ninjahamster · 01/06/2025 12:18

My grandfathers were Marshall and Montague. You don’t really hear them very often now.

Would have made an excellent department store name!

GetOffTheCounter · 01/06/2025 12:44

I guess Tangerine is not that far off Clementine and that was and is still popular.

We have a Lettice in our family then a cousin honouring that named her DD Laetitia which I love.

ToadRage · 01/06/2025 12:43

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 01/06/2025 11:29

On my husband's side there's a Horace born around the 1880s and his brother Sidney (or possibly Sydney). Horace married Lily and Sidney married Violet. I think the only one of those three names that hasn't made some sort of return to popularity is poor old Horace.

On my side, one of my great-aunts was Euphemia, known as Effie. My aunt was unimpressed by having Euphemia as her middle name.

My husband also had a great aunt called Euphemia again known as Effie or just Eff later on, i only met her once before she died. I nicknamed my brother Horatio, his name is Henry.

Nagginthenag · 01/06/2025 12:21

Onesipherus (nn Ernie 😁), Emmett, Thirza.

ninjahamster · 01/06/2025 12:18

My grandfathers were Marshall and Montague. You don’t really hear them very often now.

Tarkan · 01/06/2025 12:15

My family tree has a woman called Lockhart. I think her surname was Warnock which is a hell of a name together.

DH had an Uncle Porteous.

ginasevern · 01/06/2025 12:11

I had an aunt Theodosia. She was called either Thea or Dosie for short.

SeaFloor · 01/06/2025 12:05

DisplayPurposesOnly · 01/06/2025 12:00

Ive known a few people called Christian, all men.

My point was that the people in question in my family tree were women. These days Christian is a man's name; in the 18th/19th centuries it was clearly recognised as a woman's name.

Yes, I like it for a woman far more. I also only like Julian for a woman. Make Julians just make me think of the insufferable eldest of the Famous Five.

DisplayPurposesOnly · 01/06/2025 12:00

Ive known a few people called Christian, all men.

My point was that the people in question in my family tree were women. These days Christian is a man's name; in the 18th/19th centuries it was clearly recognised as a woman's name.

HappyNewTaxYear · 01/06/2025 11:30

DisplayPurposesOnly · 01/06/2025 09:03

I have a couple of Zilpah or Zilpha in my family tree. I like both, but prefer Zilpah. She'd be shortened to Zilly wouldn't she.

Also a Christian which I really like for a woman.

Ive known a few people called Christian, all men.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 01/06/2025 11:29

On my husband's side there's a Horace born around the 1880s and his brother Sidney (or possibly Sydney). Horace married Lily and Sidney married Violet. I think the only one of those three names that hasn't made some sort of return to popularity is poor old Horace.

On my side, one of my great-aunts was Euphemia, known as Effie. My aunt was unimpressed by having Euphemia as her middle name.

Judiezones · 01/06/2025 11:25

HeyYouTheRockSteadyCrew · 01/06/2025 09:49

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

There was a famous lawyer called Christmas Humphries, he was involved in the Christie case.

Judiezones · 01/06/2025 11:23

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.

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

Ketzele · 01/06/2025 11:21

We have a Pinchas, a Hedwig and a Candida.
Once met a woman called Maud-Lynne.

SeaFloor · 01/06/2025 11:04

ToadRage · 01/06/2025 10:55

Tryphena (sister to Aurora and Maud) and Dolphin were a couple found in my family tree. My stepdad has a Jedediah. My Husband's Grandmother was called Queenie, (though she went by Liz for most her life) the legend was they were descended in some way for Queen Catherine Howard though this has never been proven, unlike me which has. We had an Auntie Bubbles, I don't know if that was her real name, I don't remember ever meeting her but apparently did when I was a baby and remember my Mum going to her funeral in the early 00's.

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I like Tryphena. Tryphena Sparks was Thomas Hardy’s cousin, with whom he had a romantic relationship, and who inspired many poems and contributed to some of his novels’ heroines — she was brilliant and determined, and pulled herself out of a very poor background to become headteacher of a big Plymouth school. She’s supposed to have said at the interview, when an interviewer commented that she was very young, ‘Well, sir, that is a thing that time will cure.’

ToadRage · 01/06/2025 10:55

Tryphena (sister to Aurora and Maud) and Dolphin were a couple found in my family tree. My stepdad has a Jedediah. My Husband's Grandmother was called Queenie, (though she went by Liz for most her life) the legend was they were descended in some way for Queen Catherine Howard though this has never been proven, unlike me which has. We had an Auntie Bubbles, I don't know if that was her real name, I don't remember ever meeting her but apparently did when I was a baby and remember my Mum going to her funeral in the early 00's.

TheyFuckYouUpYourMamAndDad · 01/06/2025 09:54

PrincessOfPreschool · 01/06/2025 08:33

Hagar was a woman in the Bible (Ishmael's mum)

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My poor grandad! 🤣

SeaFloor · 01/06/2025 09:54

BlossomIsSoPretty · 01/06/2025 09:41

I have a man called Fountain and a woman called Wealthyn in my family. My DH has a Philadelphia Star who married Mr Moon! That's back in the early 1800s. Her siblings are William and Matilda!

Jane Austen’s aunt was called Philadelphia Austen (later Hancock) — her siblings had deeply ordinary names like George and William, but I imagine that Philadelphia was used as a name in the sense of its Greek meaning, rather than being called after the US city.

HeyYouTheRockSteadyCrew · 01/06/2025 09:49

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

BlossomIsSoPretty · 01/06/2025 09:48

Sorry thought of more from my tree, all 1800s.
Noadiah
Meshek
Baden
Doctor
Major Eliot (major his first name, died as a child so definitely his first name and not title)
Esmeralda who's first born daughter was Esma, and Esma first born was Esme. Esme then had 3 boys ij a row and number 3 was Esmund. I guess they thought maybe they wouldn't get a girl but then number 4 was a girl and they called her Jane lol

BlossomIsSoPretty · 01/06/2025 09:42

Oh and a Carys Mynfanwy which is lovely but sounds like "caress my fanny" to my English ears 😄 🤣

BlossomIsSoPretty · 01/06/2025 09:41

I have a man called Fountain and a woman called Wealthyn in my family. My DH has a Philadelphia Star who married Mr Moon! That's back in the early 1800s. Her siblings are William and Matilda!