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 love the name Henrietta.
Do they just call her by her full name, or Hettie/ Etta?

These are all great! No, no daughter called Tangerine for me.

We have some who passed the mothers surname down the line via middle names for quite a few generations.

Other random first names from my tree are:

Male:
Meyrick
Avram
Porhos
Lovejoy

Female:
Chastity
Birdie
Gentle

My grandfather (born about 1880) was 1 of 8. There were 5 boys all had surname first names; Benson, Huntley, Palmer, Randle, apart from my GF who was Arthur.

I sorely regret calling my children boring names. These are really great! I do love Tangerine.

We have no interesting names, except a lot of female and male Morgans for some reason. Which is pretty boring too. I wanted a Ptolemy but that got turned down.

Apparently many years ago my husband lived with a Jamaican girl called Alice who brothers were called Paddington and Darlington.

I have quite a few unusual names in my family tree:

Mahala
Madonna
Trafalgar
Alomas

All working class Suffolk names.

My great-grandmother was also a Henrietta. My gran had Hetty as one of her middle names so I assume that’s the nickname my g-grandmother went by.

All mine (as far back as I know) where pretty boring

Alice,Nancy,lousia and Doris,Rose,Charlotte,matilda
Thomas,Leonard and Ernest

The best 'old,old' name I've ever heard was 'Cockshot'

That made my day and I did suggest it (as a joke) to ds when his wife was pregnant

Baby dodged a bullet on 2 parts by having parents who told me to 'fuck off' (while laughing at me) and by being a girl

Boris Johnson has Lara Lettice as a daughter

Christmas Humphreys the judge?

Agree, I know lots of Harriets which is a diminutive of Henrietta, never hear of Henrietta! But masses of Henrys. I know two young Percys though!

Tangerine is bloody awful. Tangi is cute.

@FormerlyPathologicallyHappy Sidney/Sydney is a ‘normal’ name for a girl though. Maybe not that common, but normal.

Rock and Dalton.

Both men from 6 generations ago from different parts of my family tree.

We had a relative who was Esther but known as Tet.

My aunty was Vivienne but preferred her middle name, Maud.

Way back there was a Winifred

DH had a relative named Eryl, possibly a welsh name

We have a Lettice and a Geronimo

Family origins in the East Midlands!

No interesting names here, sadly.

i do love Elizabelle, though!

Way back I found someone called Cecin. She was the wife of a greatx4 uncle. The name appears several times in records so seems to be accurate.

My DH’s GM was called Almeda Bathsheba Jehu (Jehu was the surname)

Interesting names in my tree:

Ignatius David Parnell (all given names). He died as a baby :(

Coronation (nn Cora). She had two brothers with the middle names Nelson and Napoleon.

We have a Mahala too. And Euphemia.

Angelina, had a noticeable surname and married a man with my noticeable surname. That's one we can be pretty sure of, unlike Ann Powell and John Davies in a Marches village - the following year there was an Ann Powell and John Davies in the next village over

Two on the very fringes called Cinderella (mother/daughter).

My 4g-grandmother's second husband was one of a line called Woolston (surname began with W too).

Ambrose and Orlando, repeated in several different combinations, though I haven't worked out how they fit with us yet (other end of the county and with a letter missing - my 4g-grandfather just appeared in banns one day and I can't find his birth).

I also had an Auntie Bubbles! In my aunt's case her name was Esme, she was known as Bubbles (in the true spirit of a nick name, rather than using the word 'nickname' to just mean a short form of a name).

No a different surname and his occupation is listed as 'pig killer'

Reginald
Opal
Laurie