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?

And rosiana

I have a Gillifer, an Ephanie, a Bertwin and a Zillah.

@LadyMonicaBaddingham

Zillah. I win 😉

I have a Zillah too. And a Thomasine and an Augusta.

As far as men are concerned, I have a Cornelius, a Shaftesbury, a Horatio, a Claude and a couple of Willoughbys.

I have a relative with a middle name of King. No relation to any surname in the family & no idea why it was chosen

What a bunch of fabulous names on this thread!!
We have a million Antons. Anton seems to be The Name.
Also Milada, Thekla, Vaclav, Kaspar, Elias... quite standard Czech names really.

Ivor.

DH wouldn't let me use it for DS

@TerrifiedandWorried

Shafto

Wasn't Shafto the name of a boy in a nursery rhyme?

Bobby Shafto I think...pronounced Shaf-toe rather than Shaft-o!

I also have 3 brothers in my tree called Wallace, Horace and Elbridge (they had sisters too but with more usual names).

And one Hornsby, just why?

Adelaide
Marmaduke
Kynaston

My next door neighbour is called Rosina. She has sisters called Zighelda (Ziggy) and something else beginning with Z. They are all names of heroines in operas.

DH has an Ebenezer.
My great grandma was called Gertie Bullock! She was a flighty one who snuck out to dance halls and was divorced by her husband, grandma’s father, which was very unusual in their lower middle class circles in those days.

Lancelot
Rock
Dalton

Wow there are some amazing names on here.

My lot aren’t as interesting but we have Emmanuel, Ezekial, Lazar, Barnet, Aharon, Cecilie, Hettie, Asher, Myer, Rosalie and Gershon.

From DH's family.
Several Zilpha's , it looks like at least one girl was named after Grandma in each generation.

Truelove, for a boy. Appears several times, in a coal mining family.

Silvanus, Kerenhappuch and Tryphena. All glorious batty names.

And an Agneta, in 1593. Sounds very Scandinavian doesn't it? For a Welsh woman?

We’ve got a Lorenzo. Weirdly his surname was a very ordinary English sounding name and all his siblings had very English one and two syllable names, no idea where Lorenzo came from!

Fyler
Johan
Barnabas
Mehetable
Judah
Elkanah
Aert
Patience
Ebenezer
Tamesin
Elizabetha
Wakefield
Chapman
Alyce
Mercy
Ichabad
Wyntje
Burdon
Experience
Denys
Fulke
Symon
Brita
Lena
Tekla
Mickel
Pasco

I could scour my family tree and find a few more, but that seems like enough.

A lot of early settlers in New England had interesting names.

Peaceful is probably my favourite, from the 1800s.

My mum had an uncle Ambrose (known as Uncle Amby) - always thought that was a great name!

I don't know much of my family history, but it always made me smile that my great-grandparents were called Mary and Joseph.

A sibling of one of my forebears was named 'barcham barcham'

He was the 5th child, so all I can think is his mother ran out of names 🤣 poor barcham, all his siblings has normal names!

I have a Moses, Laurina, Hiram and a Tryphenia 😊

I have Sophia Pricilla,
Nelson,
Alfonzio,
Richard Lorenzo (not related to Alfonzio) and both are english
and Levi
Quite a few Phoebe's each side of the family.

I have a Forestina and a Meliora