Names you just don't see anymore

[Necromancer]

Alexandriena (sp?)

[kerryb]

Christmas!

[Necromancer]

True !

[miss marple]

In my tree I have one family with many generations of Hercules. My husband has a Neighbour (male) – never seen that one anywhere else – and I have a Lessey (female) which doesn't seem too common.

[Tati]

Hercules - I love it     

[bearkat]

Most of mine are just the boring Mary or Elizabeth for girls and John and Thomas etc. for boys.

The most unusual girl's name I have in my tree is Argentine and boy's name is Augustus Hiram.


Some names have surprised me.  I had always thought of Susan as a 1950s name but have one in my tree born in 1827.

[Necromancer]

Miss Marple - Hercules Poirot - Tanja - is there a link ?  

[Tati]

We might be slightly off topic here Newfy   but I have an immoderate love for names like Sampson, Hercules, Achilles, Zeus, Ulysses et al 

(I struggled to find a father for any of them however - well, nearly succeeded with Ulysses but the child  wasn't to be a boy, hey ho !!)

[kerryb]

Anyway back to topic 

I've just been going through my tree and picked out some unusual ones - Sylvan, Trayton, Eden, Avann, Tilden and Mirab and a mirad of biblical names such as Soloman, Isaac and Orpah.

What is interesting is that I noticed that with some of the unusual names such as Sylvan once a child had been called that, in successive generations they start to crop up amongst cousins children.  Either it has a family significance or they were creating favourite and popular name trends of their own!

Kerry