Amazing names from your family tree

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Following a conversation at work today.

I had an (great great ?) Aunty Ceinwen. Much further back on the family tree we found a Rosina, which I thought was rather pretty.

A colleague recently discovered he had a distant cousin with the first name Macdara, which is apparently a local Irish saint, and means Son of Oak!

Any cool or unusual names from way back in your family tree?

My dad found a few ladies called Alima in our family tree, and he's not sure why, he hasn't found any traces of the name elsewhere

One my maternal grandmother's side there were a lot of sailors and they had a tradition of giving boys the middle name Nelson and a first name beginning with A (for Admiral), so Arthur Nelson D , Alfred Nelson D , which I thought was a rather cool tradition.

Grandpas middle babe name was Augustus 😍

Mignonette, Thomasine

We have a Rosina in our tree too. Also Jellicoe (middle name).

Elkhannah - a male ancestor born around 1750
Christmas surname Day also male also born around the same time

Someone did their family tree and we turned up in it. We had a Zilpha in the nineteenth century

@OneWildNightWithJBJ I think Rosina must have been popular at one time. It's also the name of a character in Poldark!

I have a Thomasina, a Lettice and a Jennet.

Zillah. I win 😉

There’s a Philomena which I love! And Kathleen features quite a lot in our family tree, and it’s my middle name.

My great grandad was called Ephram

Kayla from Besarabia (White Russia).

Hepzibah, Merlin, Patience, Queenie, Clementina, Britannia, Cinderella, Royal

Those are a few of my favourites from my family tree.

My mum had an aunt Mafeking. The siege of Mafeking (in South Africa) was going on at the time in 1900 but she was born in London to a London family! Mum always felt sorry for her.

I have several people called Ozias in my family tree. One of them was my great, great, great grandfather.

Alpha and Omega

Dorothea Desiree. What a name
I think she was called Deedee.

Blodwyn.

I broke the link in the family tree going back centuries by not naming our son ‘Archibald’. FIL was very disappointed. It’s DH middle bloody middle name as MIL refused it as a first name.

I had a great aunt Valentina.

And great grandad was helier winter Hadley snowdon last name.

Wendelin- I just love the name. Shame I am done with having kids.

@ElEmEnOhPee

Hepzibah, Merlin, Patience, Queenie, Clementina, Britannia, Cinderella, Royal

Those are a few of my favourites from my family tree.

Wow!

I also have a Rosina in my family tree. There is also a Smith (first name) and a Kirby Whitby (also first names). All 3 are in the same family tree.
In another line of ancestry are a couple of Cornelius's, an Agnes and an Archibald.

There's 5 women called Christiana in my family tree, starting in around 1700. Very pretty but does not work at all with my surname.

My nans middle name was Britannia , it’s hideous but certainly different .