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Has anyone heard the name ARAMINTA before?

42 replies

Tas1 · 20/06/2008 12:45

My cousin and his wife have just had a baby girl and they have called her Araminta.

I love this name.
Does anyone know its origin or what it means?
Has anyone heard of it before?

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LobstersLass · 21/06/2008 17:42

It reminds of a cassette-story I had as a child.

My name is Araminta
I'm a very special cat
My eyes are green my fur is white
And I sit on a silver mat.

I have no idea why I still remember that!!!

Rosevie · 20/06/2008 19:21

Jeremy Clarkson mentions the name quite a lot in his column so quite a few in Glos perhaps?

lazarou · 20/06/2008 19:16

My friends Niece is called Araminta-Minty for short.

princessglitter · 20/06/2008 19:09

LOVE it. In fact, I may have a third dd just so I can call her Araminta.

MaryAnnSingleton · 20/06/2008 19:07

that's what I said DelGirl

DelGirl · 20/06/2008 17:24

oops, I meant Aminta

thumbwitch · 20/06/2008 17:24

Heroine in Isabel Wolff's The Making of Minty Malone

DelGirl · 20/06/2008 17:18

1 of Pete Townshends daughters is called Araminta

AtheneNoctua · 20/06/2008 17:16

I just read some of blog. It is very funny, indeed.

pagwatch · 20/06/2008 17:11

LMAO @ Mrs ruffalo
albeit belatedly

Araminta - terrible. Sounds like a personal hygene product

AtheneNoctua · 20/06/2008 17:08

I was going to mention that... but wasn't sure it was my place to advertise.

CountessDracula · 20/06/2008 16:42

and who can forget the lovely minty dix-charrington

JessJess3908 · 20/06/2008 16:31

Only in novels (posh bridesmaid in Jenny Colgan, Amanda's Wedding) - and i went to a very posh school

Lovely name though

AtheneNoctua · 20/06/2008 16:22

I know one too. Will bite my tongue on what I think of it.

UnquietDad · 20/06/2008 16:21

Moondial

hanaflowerisnothana · 20/06/2008 16:17

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babblington · 20/06/2008 16:16

Gosh UnquietDad, that just bought a huge flood of memories back!

zippitippitoes · 20/06/2008 16:07

i like it

romantic and ehtereal to me

tho minty is more a crush on the sports mistress

UnquietDad · 20/06/2008 16:05

Araminta/Minty is the heroine of Helen Cresswell's "Moondial".

nooka · 20/06/2008 16:04

I think that there are a few in children's fiction at the moment. There is one in the Karmidee series, and there is a series by Angie Heap about an Araminta Spookie.

greenelizabeth · 20/06/2008 15:49

Ludicrously posh and totally disgusting.

I just think of Minty from EastEnders too!

mrswoolf · 20/06/2008 15:01

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Guadalupe · 20/06/2008 12:55

I loved the Moondial too. I got an old copy of it in the Hay children's bookshop at Easter. It was the same cover I had when I read it and it took me right back.

I had a friend at school with a cousin called Araminta too.

ggglimpopo · 20/06/2008 12:54

I was also at school with an Araminta. Maybe same school!

DisplacementActivity · 20/06/2008 12:53

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