Names you just don't see anymore

[kerryb]

I ws due on Valentine's Day and my Dad apparently wanted to call me Valentine.  I decided to come 3 days late!   Well would you want to be called Valentine!!!!!

Kerry

[KathMc]

Oh Kerry, good for you for holding out. My daughter was due around Valentine's day also and I was so worried what my mom would do with all of that, but she decided to come 3 1/2 months early, so those concerns disappeared.

Kath

[pjbuk007]

Hey, letter in the Guardian today on this vey topic!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1974362,00.html

Is this one of us?

[KathMc]

Interesting read. Aren't we a timely bunch. I wonder if the author is a Rootschatter? 

Kath

[Inchworm]

Here is an unusual name.
DIEHAPPEY BADGER born 1860 (Mar qrt.) W. Bromwich

I wonder if she did die happy?

Makes me think of a poor badger crossing the road. 

[annieRN]

I have twins Noah and Pharoah
also male names
Eustace
Moses
Sylvester (his mother's surname)
Ebeneezer

female names

Adelaide
Selina (transcribed as Salome by the IGI and Suellen on the census.)
Ales (old spelling of Alice)
Virtue
and  my grandmother was Mabel Getrude,

                       Anne

[coppernob]

Hi   I have Valentine for boys,    someone in my tree has that as their middle name.    So does that count .

I thought Ezekiel was unusual til I searched on that other site ( genes) shhh   now I have changed my mind on that one, & apparently it is coming back into fashion !!!! 

Coppernob

[aghadowey]

My grandmother's uncle was a boat designer and named 2 daughters after boats he was involved with- Ailsa Craig and Edith Reliance. Her father was a sea captain and older sister born at sea on J.H. Dexter had Dexter as a middle name.
I've also got great-grandfathers named Blanchard, Valentine and Elias. My grandmother was Viola with sisters Otilda, Clara Frances, Henrietta, Alta Daisy and Arvilla Millicent.
Lots and lots of other unusual names like Orinda, Zaidee, Lurana, Theodosius as well as Biblical ones like Jabez, Ebenezer, Abraham, Zebulon.
At school there were lots of Susans, Debbies, Karens, Lisas, Michaels, Roberts but also Atherine, Noah and Ezra.

[KathMc]

I thought Ezekiel was unusual til I searched on that other site ( genes) shhh   now I have changed my mind on that one, & apparently it is coming back into fashion !!!! 

I have a Ulysses (middle name Grant) on my tree and I did an Ancestry search of just Ulysses G and no last name for the time period and many many names came up. Even back then, people named after famous people, or followed some kind of trend.

Kath