Unusual or Interesting Names in your Family ?

Deedaa

Shinamae There is a character called Thirza in Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse.

I used to have an uncle whose name (I thought) was Rars. I thought it was odd and I was never sure how to spell it when writing thankyou letters. It was years before I found out that his name was actually Brian but the family had always called him Raspberry, or Rars for short!

Ahhhh thank you Deedaa.?

Looking at my family tree going back a few, with 18 names included, 9 of them contain Marie, even the men. French Catholic background. Also lots of Francois and Francoise, and Joseph. So any combo of Joseph Marie, Marie Francoise, Francois Marie,,,,,

There is a Great Great Grandmother Pelogie, which I have never heard before. No middle name listed, but who bets on Marie?

My paternal grandmother was Honora, such a beautiful name.

We had a couple of Honoras as well as Honor Sago.
It is a lovely name

Honora features in my family. It is a name very popular in ireland in the 19th century and was usually shortened to Nora, whch is well known to be an Irish name.

I haven't seen Ida mentioned so far. I thought everyone had an Auntie Ida!

Not an Ida but an Auntie Nellie

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Henrietta, Hetty and James paternal grandmother.
Jack and Kate, maternal grandparents.
Lots of James’s Jim’s and Jimmy’s in my family.

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I reported it earlier too - but GN admin is having problems. It was an old thread anyway.

Way back I had a lady named Grizel .

I used to have an Auntie Fanny.
The most unusual names in our family at the moment are 3 of my great grandsons. They are Jaylen, Alby and Hudson

My grandparents were Rose and May, Frederick and Joseph. But Joseph's little sister was called Iphigenia!

In the area I come from surnames were and are used as first names, I had an uncle Thompson never Tom , Ferguson as a first name Wordsworth and Wedgwood used the same way, one poor chap was Wordsworth shortened to Waddy William Wedgwood.
Isabella which is now very popular runs through my family since the 1700's. The oddest I have found are Coronation her father Gildereye and sister Bathsheba, the latter sounds very Thomas Hardie to me.
My grandparents' names were normal Victorian ones. My granddad's sister was Nellie who I thought was Helen but was Eleanor. The most unusual was Annunziata who had Italian links.

DH and I each have a Hephzibah in the family tree (mine was known as Aunt Eppie), and he has several Dukes dating back to the early 1800s (sadly just the name, not the title).

Albert Henry and Lizzie. Not Elizabeth just Lizzie.

Florence and John.

DH, Albert and Beatie (Beatrice), and Harry and Alice.

The only one repeated in the family for a great, great grandchild is Alice.

Going further back Cornelius, Ambrose, Dorcus, Hephzibah, Tryphena, Theodolphus and Christiana.

In our family we have a Vina and a Lavinia. Everyone else is quite boring.

I have, a lot of great grandmothers back, a Dorcas. I always thought that this was male name but maybe it's dual or has changed over the centuries. My great, great grandmother was Keziah which seems to have well and truly fallen out of fashion. Her daughter was called Fanny, can't see that coming back any time soon!

Esspee

I started work on my family tree at the end of last year and was delighted to find I had a great granny Fanny.
[Please don't bother trying to inform me it was Frances as some gransnetters did. It wasn't. I have her birth certificate.]
Somehow I can't see her name coming back into fashion.?

You should look for the Irn Bru Fanny advert - I think it's on YouTube!

FannyCornforth

Thank you Gwyneth
Clara was my great grandmother's first name.
She pronounced it Clare-a, not
Clah-ra.
And my Nan pronounced her own name Duh-reen, not Door-een.
That side of the family must have an awkward streak!

I should have just titled the thread 'Grandparents' Names', come to think of it!
Dwynwen is beautiful.

Clera, pronounced Clare-a was my granny's name. Family were originally German in origin. I wonder if that is anything to do with it?

Lin52

My G G Aunts on mums side, Thirza, Clarice, Olga, Una Tessibell, Zetha and Aurelia. Twelve children in total.

My late friend had one of those names! She would have been chuffed to hear of another one.

Both DH and I had grannies called Euphemia, a popular name in 19th century Scotland, often shortened to Effie or Fay.

Maggiemaybe

DH and I each have a Hephzibah in the family tree (mine was known as Aunt Eppie), and he has several Dukes dating back to the early 1800s (sadly just the name, not the title).

Got a couple of Hephzibahs in my family tree as well, on maternal and paternal sides! Can't see it making a comeback somehow!