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Girls name, after someone who is admired or did something special/memorable IYSWIM

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mollysawally · 10/06/2008 17:08

Planning 2nd child. First DD has a family name.

If we have another girl I would like her to be named after someone who did something special or someone who who is admired for her achievements.

Any ideas?

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Nighbynight · 10/06/2008 18:55

oooh what a lovely idea.

Artemesia (Gentileschi, painter)

Hedy (not sure what it was short for) (Lamarr, film star and original inventor of the idea of Code Division Multiple Access, the basis of 3G mobile telecoms)

belgo · 10/06/2008 18:35

Godiva

ButterflyBessie · 10/06/2008 18:33

Diana - memorable

ButterflyMcQueen · 10/06/2008 18:22

boudaceous?

ivyJkaty44 · 10/06/2008 18:21

Jane Austen (author)
Jane Seymour (queen)
Jane Gray (queen)
Jane Grigson (chef)
Jane Addams (nobel peace prize 1931)
Jane Goodall (ethologist)
Jane Avril (dancer)

bundle · 10/06/2008 18:02

Grace (Darling)
Florence (Nightingale)
Jocelyn (Bell Burnell)
Mary (Seacole)
Edith (Cavell)

cece · 10/06/2008 17:58

How about

Bodeicka?

DrNortherner · 10/06/2008 17:56

Margaret [snurk]
Elizabeth
Mary
Cleopatra

ButterflyMcQueen · 10/06/2008 17:55

i actually prefer Boadicea but that is asking to be mis pronounced

jura · 10/06/2008 17:39

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cece · 10/06/2008 17:38

LOL but whihc spelling do you prefer?

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mollysawally · 10/06/2008 17:38

Thank you for all the suggestion, everyones so quick!

I'm loving that link squiffy, now I can look them all up, some of them I know, others I'm hearing for the first time

Keep them coming!

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ButterflyMcQueen · 10/06/2008 17:38

cece - x threads!!!!

Tortington · 10/06/2008 17:36

Sappho - poet
Hildegard
Jiang

ButterflyMcQueen · 10/06/2008 17:34

i heart Boudica

cece · 10/06/2008 17:34

Boudicca

cece · 10/06/2008 17:33

Golda

Marie

Mary

Florence

Elizabeth

Joan

MaryAnnSingleton · 10/06/2008 17:32

Jane, as in Austen
Marie

Tortington · 10/06/2008 17:32

rosa
rosa
rosa

McDreamy · 10/06/2008 17:32

I was going to say Florence!

Delia
Elizabeth
Amelia
Marie
Beatrix
Anne
Rosa
Eva
Theresa
Victoria

LadyThompson · 10/06/2008 17:31

Doris
Nancy
Sylvia

Tortington · 10/06/2008 17:31

rosa
joan

themildmanneredjanitor · 10/06/2008 17:31

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SquiffyHock · 10/06/2008 17:31

try here

Tortington · 10/06/2008 17:30

ella
indira

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