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?

Euphemea, Augustine, Laurencius, Dorcas, Sibella, Sidwell, Hannibal, Hilaria, Bathsheba, Remfrey, Cordelia, Temperance and my ultimate favourite- Melchizedeck. Plus about 100 Johns and Mary's 😂

Ermyntrude
Orpah
Mahala
Flower
Appolonia

Golden
Octavius
Ivett

I think Dorcas is rather nice actually!

I have a friend whose granny was Zillah - it's only since the film that the name dropped out of use,

We have Rosabel, Sibury and Alt

Also there is a Decima in the same tree as Rosina et Al.

Decima appears in mine quite a few times, including my great aunt. And two Luthers.

We have a Septimus. It seems ‘Latin numbers’ was a naming trend at one point in history. I wonder when that’s due a revival? 😂

Kezia and Philadelphia!

There is a Rosina as a middle name in my tree. And one of her descendants is also a girl with Rosina as a middle name. Nice to see the name passed down.

I also have an Aubra (also reused as a middle name later in the family).

Just found an Emudi too!

I have a Keren-Happuch and a Keziah.

You'd think that, with a name like Keren-Happuch and a fairly uncommon surname, this particular relative would be jumping off the ancestry records. But .... nope. She simply disappears.

Shafto

Hepzibah.
Several female Christians

Kezia and Philadelphia!

I also have those too. Do you have Romany ancestry? That's where mine come from.

Thirza and Achsah, both female, different sides of the family.

Smith as a first name.

My Grandma was a Rosina and she hated it!

I know a Ceinwen now! Also got a Christiana and a Feliciana. Favourite is Gladys Knight.
Dp has a line of Horatio, which as any amateur genealogist will tell you, is a godsend!

I found two Rosinas in different but contemporaneous branches of the family tree - apparently it was very popular around 1900-ish but seems to have missed out on the Lily/Rosie/Violet revival.

Other than that - and one Moses - it's a monotonous parade of Sarahs, Johns, Georges, and Annes.

Thirza and Emmet. Onesipherus, which I truly wish we'd had the chutzpah to use (although DS may not have thanked us .

LifeofBriony - snap!

Hillotte

Brothers Shadrach, Mesach and Abed-nego

We have a ‘Quintilian’

Zillah here too @LadyMonicaBaddingham. From the Northern Irish side she was a nurse.

Ebenezer, Asher and on my daughters fathers side a Lord Mungo