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?

It's a Scottish girls name, I know 2

DC was at school with someone whose name was the tinned fruit brand with 'the man who likes to say yes' if you reversed it and said surname then first name

I have a Philadelphia in my family tree too - am surprised to see it mentioned twice on the thread - it seemed a very fanciful name

I think the most unusual names from my family tree were Jabez and Friend (he named his son Friend too!) It was quite a religious rural area with lots of very biblical names.

We have Marmaduke on my mums side, Marmaduke Snr and Marmaduke Jr. I love it!!

I much prefer Satsuma nn Sats.

'Marmaduke, put that down, we never buy dried pasta!' Sorry i had to put that in there ,it was something i heard on a comedy show about people who shop in Waitrose.

DH has a Thirza Topliss and a Fanny Fowler

I found a distant relative named Armistice in my family tree. No prizes for guessing when he was born!

I’d go for nn Uma. 😁

There's a Horrible Histories sketch about ridiculous Victorian names.
People think the whole "yooneek" thing is new..... it's not !

She's known as Hettie. I agree, it is a nice name.

No relation unfortunately, but my sister in law's good friend is called Winsome, which I think is lovely. She's Jamaican so it may be popular there.

Nancy Mitford’s mother was called Sydney, I think it’s nice.

A friend’s dad had a great-aunt called Mafeking. Apparently it was popular after the Relief of Mafeking in the Boer War around 1900. She was known as Aunt Maf

Mafeking is amazing!

It is always interesting to know about naming trends and inspiration.

Poor child

Grizel and Grizzell are the best ones on my tree. I often wonder if the spelling change caused any arguments in the family.

In years to come it'll be my name that jumps out of the tree. I have 4 siblings with ordinary 70s names along the Gary, Laura, Keith lines. My mother was as high as a kite when in labour with me so I got saddled with Starlight.

Thankfully changed when I was old enough, but I can only imagine the confusion if anyone does our tree in many years.

Tangerine is a very unusual name. I have never heard it before.

In contrast, quite a lot of the names other people on this thread have mentioned are really not unusual. Maybe not that well known right now, or where you come from but really not that strange.

I was at school with a Henrietta and DS has one in his class now. There’s a Henrietta Barnett school in London. Google it, there are loads!

I really wanted to call DD Marsali but DH vetoed it!

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

One of the things I love about family tree stuff is learning things like this - what makes Clémentine a name and tangerine not. It fascinates me how words and names evolved.

(In this case Clémentine was already a name and was given to the fruit after Clement, its first grower, where as Tangerine was named after the place, Tangiers, not a person)

@ARichtGoodDram Absolutely! I have googled Tangerine as a first name and quite a few came up, so it is still in use today.
I wonder if there was a reason for choosing Tangerine for my relative. The family were sailors so perhaps they knew the fruit, or a connection to Tangiers.

There was a chap a few generations called Farewell, courtesy of his dying mother's last word.

Funnily enough, he disappeared without warning as an adult, and nobody ever found out where he went!

I have a great great aunt called Dulcibella. It was a good job I’d had my kids before I found out. Another great great aunt called Snowie. It was a nickname as she had white blonde hair. Her real name was Adelheid.

Granny was Queenie. Suited her perfectly x

I have a Keziah (4x great grandmother), a Kerenhapuch (step connection - she called her children Ann and John), a Curtis, and a string of men called Lilly with no clue where it came from - presumably a surname somewhere!

I have a couple of Queenies, but both were nicknames for very standard names. I've been surprised how common Rosina was in the early 20th century. A lovely name which doesn't seem to have made a comeback.