Tangerine nn Tangi

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Doing some family research and have come across the name Tangerine, with the nn of Tangi, for a girl.

What very unusual names have you got in your family tree?

I like Tryphena. Tryphena Sparks was Thomas Hardy’s cousin, with whom he had a romantic relationship, and who inspired many poems and contributed to some of his novels’ heroines — she was brilliant and determined, and pulled herself out of a very poor background to become headteacher of a big Plymouth school. She’s supposed to have said at the interview, when an interviewer commented that she was very young, ‘Well, sir, that is a thing that time will cure.’

We have a Pinchas, a Hedwig and a Candida.
Once met a woman called Maud-Lynne.

There's a 7 year old Henrietta a few doors away from me.

There was a famous lawyer called Christmas Humphries, he was involved in the Christie case.

On my husband's side there's a Horace born around the 1880s and his brother Sidney (or possibly Sydney). Horace married Lily and Sidney married Violet. I think the only one of those three names that hasn't made some sort of return to popularity is poor old Horace.

On my side, one of my great-aunts was Euphemia, known as Effie. My aunt was unimpressed by having Euphemia as her middle name.

Ive known a few people called Christian, all men.

Ive known a few people called Christian, all men.

My point was that the people in question in my family tree were women. These days Christian is a man's name; in the 18th/19th centuries it was clearly recognised as a woman's name.

Yes, I like it for a woman far more. I also only like Julian for a woman. Make Julians just make me think of the insufferable eldest of the Famous Five.

I had an aunt Theodosia. She was called either Thea or Dosie for short.

My family tree has a woman called Lockhart. I think her surname was Warnock which is a hell of a name together.

DH had an Uncle Porteous.

My grandfathers were Marshall and Montague. You don’t really hear them very often now.

Onesipherus (nn Ernie 😁), Emmett, Thirza.

My husband also had a great aunt called Euphemia again known as Effie or just Eff later on, i only met her once before she died. I nicknamed my brother Horatio, his name is Henry.

I guess Tangerine is not that far off Clementine and that was and is still popular.

We have a Lettice in our family then a cousin honouring that named her DD Laetitia which I love.

Would have made an excellent department store name!

Sexy. I kid you not. Early 18thc so wouldn't have had the meaning it does now.

Elsewhere she was Sexa (sixth child) so a mishearing.

My great-grandmother’s name was Mahala. I didn’t know how to pronounce it but apparently it’s Ma- hail- ah (I would have assumed Ma-hah-la).

Same.

My colleague called her first born Sidney for a girl. Next one got a normal name so assuming she came to her senses.

We have about five generations of men called Mungo back pre war

Do you live in Utah?

My cousin (boy) is called Joscelin, everyone calls him Joss, We honestly thought this was a joke but apparently its one of those names that was historically male but has over time become used for females like Evelyn and Angel.

One of my grans was called Lovena. She said her father had seen the name on a ship and liked it. Unfortunately many people thought it was a misspelt Lavinia.

Family folklore had someone who was born when his mother was travelling to India in the 19th century - I was delighted to discover little Hibernia in my research, named after his troopship of birth.

I also quite liked Oliver, whose middle name was Cromwell. No family link whatsoever, they apparently just liked the way it flowed.

Hagar was a cartoon in newspaper. He was a Viking!

There are 2 female Sidneys in my DGD class.