Girls name, after someone who is admired or did something special/memorable IYSWIM

[mollysawally]

Planning 2nd child. First DD has a family name.

If we have another girl I would like her to be named after someone who did something special or someone who who is admired for her achievements.

Any ideas?

Grace (Darling)
Florence (Nightingale)
Jocelyn (Bell Burnell)
Mary (Seacole)
Edith (Cavell)

Jane Austen (author)
Jane Seymour (queen)
Jane Gray (queen)
Jane Grigson (chef)
Jane Addams (nobel peace prize 1931)
Jane Goodall (ethologist)
Jane Avril (dancer)

boudaceous?

Diana - memorable

Godiva

oooh what a lovely idea.

Artemesia (Gentileschi, painter)

Hedy (not sure what it was short for) (Lamarr, film star and original inventor of the idea of Code Division Multiple Access, the basis of 3G mobile telecoms)

Jessica (Mitford)
Marie (Curie)
Rosa (Parks)
Josephine (Butler)

Violette Szabo and Odette Hallowes - amazingly brave women SOE operatives in WWII. Just amazing.
Elizabeth Fry, prison Reformer
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, feminist pioneers. Was very smitten with Christabel but sounds silly with surname.

Violette (Szabo)
Odette (Hallowes)

at that cross post!

Erin (Pizzey)

Odette

Yes, wow! Huge heroines of mine. Unimaginable physical and moral courage. And beautiful too!

Xpost again - was reading thread.

MsDemeanor - Just read about Violette Szabo, compleelty agree MsDeaamnor. Extraordinarily brave. Thats one I will be suggesting to dp.

Can someone give me the surnames of these names which were suggested so I can look them up

Eva, Louisa May, amelia, ella,indira,Doris
Nancy,Sylvia

Thank you all

Margaret
Florence
Marie

Current women of inspiration in the childbirth field. (sorry to be so predictable)

Mary (Cronk MBE)

May (Ina May Gaskin)

Sarah (Buckley)
Gloria (Lemay)
I could suggest a few others if you want...

:-)

Keep going Klaw!

Rosa again

have a look here

Amrita (Sher-Gil, Painter, died tragically young)

Our dd is Aphra after Aphra Behn - 17th Century spy, England's first professional woman writer and the writer of what is often considered the first anti-slavery novel.

here

I love the name Emmeline (Pankhurst).

I would go Rosa too - Luxembourg, Parks, how can you go wrong . . .

Violette was a mother too. Her little daughter collected her George Cross (sob, sob, sob)