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Tue 8 Jan, 2019 09:27 pm
I saw on another site an invitation to share names from the past. I know a number of them, based on actual persons I knew or knew of. Here are some.
Appalonie
Ploner
Villa
DeWitt
Muriel
Twins: Lilly May and Willy Fay
Clifford
Feel free to add the ones you know of.
@edgarblythe,
Many years ago I knew a pair of twins named Henry and Henrietta. I remember feeling very sorry for them.
I remember a Velma, Hattie, Horace -
@izzythepush,
One Too Many must have felt very wanted.
@cherrie,
It could be worse, civil war Puritans used to call their kids names like Despair. Imagine being called that.
Thanks for adding that aspect to the thread. I can't understand why names that may adversely affect a child for an entire lifetime should be allowed. It's not as if they are property, like a dog.
@edgarblythe,
Not necessarily David Bowie's son Zowie Bowie now call himself Duncan Jones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Jones
What you said about property is interesting, back then a lot of people did view kids as their property. It's still the case today in some religious groups.
Yes, I know lots of people who consider the kids "theirs." They will have lots of adjusting to do.
I wonder how Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa are doing these days.
@edgarblythe,
Moon Unit is still Moon Unit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Zappa
While considering the name, "Mable," it occurred to me that what may seem archaic to a Texan/Californian may be contemporary with other groups of people.
@edgarblythe,
We spell it differently. Includes a pre python Eric Idle.
I haven't ignored Chinese and Japanese names. I am just too ignorant to bring it up.
These are Spanish names with Latin or Germanic roots that are still used today, although they sound as if you could blow the dust off them:
Sigiberto
Rigoberto
Ruthila
Eusebio
Oswaldo
Wilfrdeo
Eugenio
Panelope
Gertrudes
Panfilo
Guillermo (in French Guillaume, "William")
Clodonisio
Gene Autry's real first name was Orvon.
Happened across an item yesterday about a former Senator from Arkansas, by the name of Kaneaster. That was his first name.
Kaneaster Hodges.
I had a great aunt named Elfrieda. Everyone called her husband "Win" which I thought for years was short for Winston but turned out to be Winstanley.
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