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Has anyone heard the name ARAMINTA before?

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Tas1 · 20/06/2008 12:45

My cousin and his wife have just had a baby girl and they have called her Araminta.

I love this name.
Does anyone know its origin or what it means?
Has anyone heard of it before?

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kando · 20/06/2008 12:46

I've heard of it before, but can't remember where! Don't know of it's origin or meaning, sorry. Pretty though

Pinkjenny · 20/06/2008 12:46

Tamara Mellon (Jimmy Choo boss) has a daughter called Araminta.

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OneLieIn · 20/06/2008 12:46

I know someone called Minty, who is Araminta.

Jojay · 20/06/2008 12:47

I've heard it before, and it was shortened to Minnie. (I knew 2 sisters who I knew as Minnie and Willow, but their full names were Araminta and Wilhemena)

Don't know what it means though.

mrsruffallo · 20/06/2008 12:47

Wasn't he a boxer in the 80's?

funnypeculiar · 20/06/2008 12:47

There you go babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Araminta.html

Google is a wonderful thing ...

Dragonbutter · 20/06/2008 12:47

I think i remember lots of old ladies called Minty when i was little.

MrsBadger · 20/06/2008 12:48

I know a few - one is Arry, one Minty
tis quite old-school posh IME

no good derivation though

cheesesarnie · 20/06/2008 12:49

i know an araminta (grown up),minty for short.very lovely.

i found this

thequietone · 20/06/2008 12:49

There was a girl at school called Araminta - I've also got a close friend called Aminta

OrmIrian · 20/06/2008 12:49

Don't know it's origin but in novels Araminta is usually haughty, arrogant, beautiful and rides a lot. Horses I mean. Men fall before her feet.

Actually that sounds like I've been reading Mills and Boon Don't think I ever have knowingly. But I used to like historical novels as a young teenager. Honest.

Elk · 20/06/2008 12:50

Wasn't it a character in a children's book - the Moondial (or something similar) which was televised in the 80's?

It sounds lovely.

MaryAnnSingleton · 20/06/2008 12:51

yes, have heard it before - lovely !

MaryAnnSingleton · 20/06/2008 12:51

I think Pete Townshend's daughter was called Aminta

TheSmallClanger · 20/06/2008 12:51

There was a Minty in Moondial - great book and a lovely character, IIRC.

DisplacementActivity · 20/06/2008 12:52

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ggglimpopo · 20/06/2008 12:54

I was also at school with an Araminta. Maybe same school!

Guadalupe · 20/06/2008 12:55

I loved the Moondial too. I got an old copy of it in the Hay children's bookshop at Easter. It was the same cover I had when I read it and it took me right back.

I had a friend at school with a cousin called Araminta too.

mrswoolf · 20/06/2008 15:01

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greenelizabeth · 20/06/2008 15:49

Ludicrously posh and totally disgusting.

I just think of Minty from EastEnders too!

nooka · 20/06/2008 16:04

I think that there are a few in children's fiction at the moment. There is one in the Karmidee series, and there is a series by Angie Heap about an Araminta Spookie.

UnquietDad · 20/06/2008 16:05

Araminta/Minty is the heroine of Helen Cresswell's "Moondial".

zippitippitoes · 20/06/2008 16:07

i like it

romantic and ehtereal to me

tho minty is more a crush on the sports mistress