GIRLS
Huldah
Sophonia
BOYS
Addinell
Adoniram
Argalus
Binger
Cady
Cheesman
Everis
Fernand
Forbes
Hinton
Lafcadio
Marshman
Mayo
Minis
Poindexter
Thornwell
Tubman
Waterman
Robert Frost's poem "A Cliff Dwelling" reminds me of the people who must have lived here "Oh years ago--ten thousand years" and enjoyed the beauty and safety of a cliff. A place "to rest from his besetting fears". Welcome to mine.
In 2014 I featured a series of blog posts introducing you to 2,014 names. For the most part they were names that were brand new to me as well. Some names may be more familiar but I found the meaning or origin or some other aspect of the name made it worthy of inclusion here. You may love some of the names, you may hate some, but hopefully you enjoy learning about all of them.
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Abenaki African-Twi Akkadian Albanian Algonquian American Amorite Anglo-Saxon Arabic Aragonese Aramaic Araucan Armenian Assyrian Asturian Avestan Azeri Babylonian Basque Belarusian Benin Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Breton Bulgarian Catalan Celtic Chechen Chinese Coptic Cornish Croatian Czech Dacian Dakota Sioux Danish Dutch Egyptian English Eskimo Estonian Faroese Finnish Flemish Frankish French Frisian Gaelic Galician Gaulish German Gothic Greek Hawaiian Hebrew Hittite Hungarian Hurrian Igbo Indonesian Iranian Irish Gaelic Italian Japanese Javanese Ladino Latin Latvian Limburgish Malayalam Mandinka Manx Maori Mongolian Mormon Nahuatl Nigerian Norman Norse Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Persian Phoenician Pictish Polish Portuguese Proto-Indo-European Quahadi Roman Russian Sabine Saimogaitian Sanskrit Saxon Scottish Semitic Shakespearean Silurian Sindarin Slavic Slavonic Slovak Sogdian Spanish Sumerian Swahili Swedish Tongan Turkic Vietnamese Visigothic Welsh Xitsonga Yiddish Yoruba
Abenaki African-Twi Akkadian Albanian Algonquian American Amorite Anglo-Saxon Arabic Aragonese Aramaic Araucan Armenian Assyrian Asturian Avestan Azeri Babylonian Basque Belarusian Benin Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Breton Bulgarian Catalan Celtic Chechen Chinese Coptic Cornish Croatian Czech Dacian Dakota Sioux Danish Dutch Egyptian English Eskimo Estonian Faroese Finnish Flemish Frankish French Frisian Gaelic Galician Gaulish German Gothic Greek Hawaiian Hebrew Hittite Hungarian Hurrian Igbo Indonesian Iranian Irish Gaelic Italian Japanese Javanese Ladino Latin Latvian Limburgish Malayalam Mandinka Manx Maori Mongolian Mormon Nahuatl Nigerian Norman Norse Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Persian Phoenician Pictish Polish Portuguese Proto-Indo-European Quahadi Roman Russian Sabine Saimogaitian Sanskrit Saxon Scottish Semitic Shakespearean Silurian Sindarin Slavic Slavonic Slovak Sogdian Spanish Sumerian Swahili Swedish Tongan Turkic Vietnamese Visigothic Welsh Xitsonga Yiddish Yoruba
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Abundant Name Finds in "Who's Who in America 1904"
GIRLS
Linnie
BOYS
Birge - another fellow that went by his middle name
Bostwick
Burdett
Caldwell
Childe
Colbert
Fairfax
Hall - this man chose to go by his middle name
Hastings
Hjalmar-
Kittredge
McDougall
Mellen
Merriman
Purnell
Rollin
Rush
Sadakichi - another guy that chose to go by his middle name. He had both German and Japanese ancestry.
Valery - because I had not previously realized Valery was ever used on boys
Linnie
BOYS
Birge - another fellow that went by his middle name
Bostwick
Burdett
Caldwell
Childe
Colbert
Fairfax
Hall - this man chose to go by his middle name
Hastings
Hjalmar-
Kittredge
McDougall
Mellen
Merriman
Purnell
Rollin
Rush
Sadakichi - another guy that chose to go by his middle name. He had both German and Japanese ancestry.
Valery - because I had not previously realized Valery was ever used on boys
Still Diggin' "Who's Who in America 1904"
GIRLS
Clarina
Harry-dele
Orillia
Zadel
BOYS
Almon
Benton
Bolton
Braddin
Condé
Donly
Hobart
Hutchins
Joses
Murat
Prescott
Sidford
Stansbury
Teunis
Willett
Winters
Clarina
Harry-dele
Orillia
Zadel
BOYS
Almon
Benton
Bolton
Braddin
Condé
Donly
Hobart
Hutchins
Joses
Murat
Prescott
Sidford
Stansbury
Teunis
Willett
Winters
Friday, October 4, 2019
Still Obsessed with "Who's Who in America 1904" Names
GIRLS
Aella
BOYS
Alphonsus
Appleton
Asle
Augustin
Barlow
Cheever - another middle name used as a first name
Claxton - another middle name used as a first name
Evarts
Greenleaf
Maneil
Morrill
Othon
Parke
Rocellus
Tuisco - this man was born in Germany
Vere
Waller
Wharton
Winder
Aella
BOYS
Alphonsus
Appleton
Asle
Augustin
Barlow
Cheever - another middle name used as a first name
Claxton - another middle name used as a first name
Evarts
Greenleaf
Maneil
Morrill
Othon
Parke
Rocellus
Tuisco - this man was born in Germany
Vere
Waller
Wharton
Winder
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Who's Who in America - 1904 More Eye-opening Names
GIRLS
Lemira
Susa
Zona
BOYS
Athelston
Cass - the man with this name was named for a distant relative with the last name of Cass.
Bancroft
Bern
Finis
Gilson
Grove
Halbert
Hamlin
Heneage
Ignaz - this man was from Bavaria.
Miram
Sears
Strickland
Winckworth
Winfred
Wolcott
Lemira
Susa
Zona
BOYS
Athelston
Cass - the man with this name was named for a distant relative with the last name of Cass.
Bancroft
Bern
Finis
Gilson
Grove
Halbert
Hamlin
Heneage
Ignaz - this man was from Bavaria.
Miram
Sears
Strickland
Winckworth
Winfred
Wolcott
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Who's Who in America 1904 - The Saga Continues
GIRLS
Loie- nickname for Louise (the woman in the book was Loie Fuller, who created the Serpentine Dance)
BOYS
Alcée
Aretas
Chiles
Ditlew
Ewald
Farquhar
Gottlob
Harrington
Hulbert
Kuno - this man's father was Danish
Manning
Ogden
Persifor
Placidas
Stuyvesant
Walbridge
Williston
Woodbridge
Worthington
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| Portrait of Marie Louise Fuller by Frederick Glasier, 1902 |
Loie- nickname for Louise (the woman in the book was Loie Fuller, who created the Serpentine Dance)
BOYS
Alcée
Aretas
Chiles
Ditlew
Ewald
Farquhar
Gottlob
Harrington
Hulbert
Kuno - this man's father was Danish
Manning
Ogden
Persifor
Placidas
Stuyvesant
Walbridge
Williston
Woodbridge
Worthington
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