Anonymous wrote:Will try and get to these names this week. Is #2 (7 names) all in one nuclear family?

1. Sebastian and Eliza
2. Addison, Madison, Caleb, Sabastian, Olivia, Lola, Chloe
3. Maeve, Henry, and Grace
4. Luke, Mara, Olivia
5. Henry and Helene
6. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie
7. Claire
8. Peter
9. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah
10. Anya and Margo

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Anonymous wrote:DD Juliana

Poor people's name.

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Anonymous wrote:Thomas
James
Mary Catherine
Charles
Annie

Thomas James Mary Catherine Charles Annie
Thomas (Hebrew for twin; popular throughout medieval Europe and took off in England after the Norman conquest in 11th century)
James (Hebrew for supplanter)
Mary Catherine (two ancient names in many languages meaning beloved and innocent)
Charles (old English from Ceorl meaning “free man”)
Annie (English meaning Grace, open and optimistic. The sun’ll come out tomorrow, just you see)

Like Kate Middleton, your family traces its lineage back to the eighteenth century British novelist Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817). You have read all of the novels of your great aunt six generations removed: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), and even Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818,

Two of your sons are named for both uncles and Jane Austen’s brothers: James (1765–1819) and Charles John (1779–1852). Your oldest Thomas, is named for the brilliant patron saint of academics, St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) who is venerated in the Anglican Communion as well as the Roman Catholic Church. His Summa Theologiae paved the way for Christians to embrace both the tenets of their faith and to follow rigorous and logical scientific thinking. Your brainy medical husband appreciates his historical contributions.

Mary Catherine is named for Mary and Catherine Bennet in your favorite Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice. You hope the combination would pay tribute to both methodical steadfastness of Mary and the enthusiastic abandon of Catherine.

Your family’s guilty pleasure is that you all thoroughly enjoyed the critically panned 2016 interpretation of your fave novel: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

You come from a long line of Anglican ministers and family physicians. Your grandfather was invited by the international Red Cross to serve in Ghana (then the Gold Coast) after it was the first country to gain independence from colonial powers in 1957. Your grandfather was invited to an audience with Queen Elizabeth II during her controversial trip to Ghana in 1961 and to meet the African American leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X when they visited Ghana during the heady early days of independence with high hopes for pan Africanism. In that era doctors were held in high regard, and even more so in countries where medical professionals were in such short supply.

Also although Africans deeply resented all colonial rulers, the a British were widely regarded as the lesser of many evils (the worst being the Belgians in Congo).

Your family longed for England and became more British than the British while also enjoying having many staff to help with mundane domestic work. You grew up having high tea every afternoon at 4 pm and oddly also referring to even dinner as tea.

However, you were all sent to boarding schools in Britain for High School and you and your siblings stayed on for University in the homeland. You were surprised that so few treated high tea like a religious ceremony as you were used to. You met your husband at Oxford. Your hubby, a Rhodes Scholar around the same time as a Rachel Maddow was, hoped to discover something akin to penicillin as the notable Rhodes Scholar and Nobel prize winner Howard Florey did.

He is now high up at the National Institute of Health, the nation’s leading medical research agency. However, he is usually peddling fast under water and not going very far as he corrects endless public COVID misinformation, helps public health officials to navigate death threats from Q Anon conspiracy theorists and helps scientists to pack up their painstaking research as quickly as possible when Congress fails to authorize the necessary budget to keep the shop open.

St Thomas Aquinas have mercy on us!

Whoops

Annie (English meaning Grace, open and optimistic) was the surprise baby and named for the unexpected joy she brings to your family.

Interesting take, thank you ! I have never read any Jane Austen and I'm also the furthest thing from English, I do have a connection to Ghana, where I traveled to once because I figured my family likely had roots there, recent DNA testing confirmed this.
My husband has been to the UK, but not as a Rhodes scholar, though he is a bright man. We're both terribly average, but do work in healthcare and are pretty passionate about science.
DH is Catholic, I am not. DH's first wife was also Catholic, and a lover of Brit Lit, DH also has a thing for religious history thus their children's names. Yes, I am a stepmom. Thomas ,James ,Mary Catherine and Charles DH had with his first wife, who sadly passed away, Annie is ours together, and was very much planned, but she is everybody's little ray o sunshine. We do enjoy cheesy movies together as a family and building lego kits.

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Anonymous wrote:Thomas
James
Mary Catherine
Charles
Annie

Thomas James Mary Catherine Charles Annie
Thomas (Hebrew for twin; popular throughout medieval Europe and took off in England after the Norman conquest in 11th century)
James (Hebrew for supplanter)
Mary Catherine (two ancient names in many languages meaning beloved and innocent)
Charles (old English from Ceorl meaning “free man”)
Annie (English meaning Grace, open and optimistic. The sun’ll come out tomorrow, just you see)

Like Kate Middleton, your family traces its lineage back to the eighteenth century British novelist Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817). You have read all of the novels of your great aunt six generations removed: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), and even Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818,

Two of your sons are named for both uncles and Jane Austen’s brothers: James (1765–1819) and Charles John (1779–1852). Your oldest Thomas, is named for the brilliant patron saint of academics, St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) who is venerated in the Anglican Communion as well as the Roman Catholic Church. His Summa Theologiae paved the way for Christians to embrace both the tenets of their faith and to follow rigorous and logical scientific thinking. Your brainy medical husband appreciates his historical contributions.

Mary Catherine is named for Mary and Catherine Bennet in your favorite Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice. You hope the combination would pay tribute to both methodical steadfastness of Mary and the enthusiastic abandon of Catherine.

Your family’s guilty pleasure is that you all thoroughly enjoyed the critically panned 2016 interpretation of your fave novel: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

You come from a long line of Anglican ministers and family physicians. Your grandfather was invited by the international Red Cross to serve in Ghana (then the Gold Coast) after it was the first country to gain independence from colonial powers in 1957. Your grandfather was invited to an audience with Queen Elizabeth II during her controversial trip to Ghana in 1961 and to meet the African American leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X when they visited Ghana during the heady early days of independence with high hopes for pan Africanism. In that era doctors were held in high regard, and even more so in countries where medical professionals were in such short supply.

Also although Africans deeply resented all colonial rulers, the a British were widely regarded as the lesser of many evils (the worst being the Belgians in Congo).

Your family longed for England and became more British than the British while also enjoying having many staff to help with mundane domestic work. You grew up having high tea every afternoon at 4 pm and oddly also referring to even dinner as tea.

However, you were all sent to boarding schools in Britain for High School and you and your siblings stayed on for University in the homeland. You were surprised that so few treated high tea like a religious ceremony as you were used to. You met your husband at Oxford. Your hubby, a Rhodes Scholar around the same time as a Rachel Maddow was, hoped to discover something akin to penicillin as the notable Rhodes Scholar and Nobel prize winner Howard Florey did.

He is now high up at the National Institute of Health, the nation’s leading medical research agency. However, he is usually peddling fast under water and not going very far as he corrects endless public COVID misinformation, helps public health officials to navigate death threats from Q Anon conspiracy theorists and helps scientists to pack up their painstaking research as quickly as possible when Congress fails to authorize the necessary budget to keep the shop open.

St Thomas Aquinas have mercy on us!

Whoops

Annie (English meaning Grace, open and optimistic) was the surprise baby and named for the unexpected joy she brings to your family.

Anonymous wrote:DS: Dweezil
DH: Moon Unit

Anonymous wrote:DS: Dweezil
DH: Moon Unit

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Anonymous wrote:Sela
Liam

Liam: an Irish name meaning "strong-willed warrior" and "protector." It's a shortened version of the Irish name Uilliam (which came from the Frankish name Willahelm) meaning "helmet of will." Liam is also a fun, modernized alternative to the traditional boy name William.

Sela: Hebrew girls name meaning rock. Sela is a Biblical place name being the original term for the city of Petra, the "Red Rose City" in Jordan that dates back to the fourth century BC.

You are a curator at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum with interests in the arts, history, and culture.

You grew up in a working class family in the Appalachia. After reading, Hillbilly Elegy, you wondered whether the author J.D. Vance and you were related. Vance’s mother and her family were from Breathitt County, Kentucky. Their Appalachian values include loyalty and patriotism, despite social issues including violence, chronic underemployment, substance and verbal abuse. He details his grandparents' alcoholism and abuse, and his unstable mother's history of drug addictions and failed relationships. Vance's grandparents eventually reconciled and became his de facto guardians. He was pushed by his tough but loving grandmother, and eventually Vance was able to get out and attend Ohio State University followed by Yale Law School. Unlike Vance, you drew very different conclusions about the roots causes of poverty and downward social mobility in rust belt parts of America. As a woman, you know your individual work ethic alone can’t dig yourself out of giant sink holes. It sure helped you get ahead though.

Like Vance, your tough talking Scottish American grandmother fought every step of the way to help you get out of your dying town in West Virginia where great privilege is considered having a full set of real teeth. You were a good student and highly motivated to get away from your opioid addicted parents, their squalid home, and constant screaming and fighting. Your grandmother would roast you for any minor signs of following in the aimless footsteps of dead beat youth in your town. As a first generation tertiary student, you earned a full ride to study museology and archeology at the prestigious Jesuit Georgetown University.

Little did you know how tough it would be to get through studying along side UMC students whose greatest dilemma seemed to be how to do their own laundry. You had no money for fashionable clothes or indulging in the movies. But you are a tough cookie, and persevered by keeping your head down and not going out much. You hope you never have to eat another tin of refried beans again in your life.

You went on to a Georgetown PhD program in art and museum studies with a focus on Appalachian ethno music. You worked as an intern at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. You eventually became a museum curator at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

You decided to have children alone and started applying for adoption within the US since you knew first hand there are many American children who need a good home. Unexpectedly, you met and fell in love with another woman during this process. You both dress and talk rather conservatively and have not faced any backlash among your friends. It did take you ten years to come out to your Appalachian family. As many of them are dependent on your financial support, there were no histrionics to your face.

You visited Jordan on your Honeymoon fifteen years ago, and were enchanted by so many under acknowledged gems (the capital of Amman, the Dead Sea, the oldest Roman ruins at Jerash, the desert of Wadi Rum where Laurence of Arabia lived and the epic movie was filmed, Christian sacred sites along the Jordan River, and the city of Petra. The Red Rose City became one of the Seven New Wonders of the World in 2007 following a vote of 100 million people. The city's carved rose-red sandstone rock facades, tombs, and temples became known following its appearance in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade in 1989. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.

As an archeologist and museologist, you find Petra extraordinary on so many levels. You like the ancient name for Petra, Sela, and it’s ancient meaning of rock. You greatly value steadfast, solid personalities whom you can depend on. You consider your rough around the edges Scottish parents as your rocks.

So it was a no brainer that you would name your children Sela and Liam. Both names are associated with resilient durability. You do have an exotic streak in you as well, and also like to feel unique in unpretentious ways. Sela qualifies as it is the 10,317th in the ranking of most common names in the United States.

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Liam