Some names you gotta hear

BOYS 

Ethyl - the y is pronounced with a long i sound. 

If you could separate a name from its famous owners...

Gurbanguly - name of the president of Turkmenistan

Manson - The fellow who had this for a first name lived in the 1800s, so it lacked the infamous quality it now has.

A Handful of Names

GIRLS

Mon Cho Zee Win Kah - Ho-Chunk (also known as Winnebago, a Wisconsin tribe), this lady was listed in a 1910 census record as Mrs. Mon Cho Zee Win Kah Bigbill. So maybe this should be listed as a male name. If I learn more about it, I will reclassify it.

We Hun Kah - Ho-Chunk (also known as Winnebago, a Wisconsin tribe), this lady was listed in a 1910 census record as Mrs. We Hun Kah Blackhawk, so maybe this also should be listed as a male name.

BOYS

Cha Wauk Sep Sootch E Kah - Ho-Chunk (also known as Winnebago, a Wisconsin tribe)

Ma He Sep Kah - Ho-Chunk (also known as Winnebago, a Wisconsin tribe)

Uvaldo

Names for a pardner or two

GIRLS

Articia

BOYS

Phantly - birth name of the famous Judge Roy Bean (the only law west of the Pecos). Phantly was his father's name. 

R You Ready For New Names?

GIRLS

Renetta - this was pronounced 'rah nett ah". But for the pronunciation, I would think it was a form of Renata. This was someone on a housing tv show.

BOYS

Raynell

Why Didn't You Speak?

Mattie M. Boteler is a distant cousin of mine, on my mother's paternal line.

Why Didn't You Speak? 

Mattie M. Boteler


When the pain of bitter bereavement

Has filled another with grief, 

You wished that a portion of comfort

Might bring him needed relief,

But never a word did you utter

To lighten the sky that was bleak.

It was well enough that you pitied, 

But, Brother, why didn't you speak?

You have seen the giddy and thoughtless

Ensnared by the things that must blight;

You have feared that the footsteps unwary

Take hold on the portals of night.

You counted the risk he was taking 

Too costly for one that was weak.

You were conscious of all of his danger

But, Brother, why didn't you speak?

You have thought of some friend that has helped you

Along your pathway thus far.

You know that, because of his kindness,

Today you're the man that you are.

The tenderest feelings have stirred you, 

And teardrops have moistened your cheek

As you thought of all that you owed him,

But, Brother, why didn't you speak?

Published in Silver Linings: Poems of Hope and Cheer, 1927

Why Not These Names?

GIRLS

Aldora

Altovise

Merula

Neisha

BOYS

Qing Shan - Chinese, meaning "blue colored mountains" and which symbolizes persistence.