Favorite Family names from Genealogical Research

General Name Discussion
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I’ve been putting together an extensive genealogy to stave off TTC insanity, and even though 90% of the female ancestors I’ve found so far were named [name_f]Marie[/name_f] (Silly [name_m]French[/name_m] and [name_m]French[/name_m] Canadians), I did find some interesting other names

Girls:

[name_f]Apolline[/name_f]
[name_f]Lumina[/name_f]
Radegonde
[name_f]Perrine[/name_f]
Theotiste
Leonaide
Thennelinne
Alzada
[name_f]Modesta[/name_f]

Boys:

[name_m]Gaspard[/name_m]
[name_f]Marin[/name_f]
Galeran
[name_m]Aubin[/name_m] (Actually quite a few men named this)
Mathurin
Pantaleon
[name_m]Giles[/name_m]
Sachem
Varanvalle
Fiacre

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You have some really cool names on there! My family is [name_m]French[/name_m] as well, and all I know of that side of the family is that there was that my Great Grandmother was named [name_f]Marie[/name_f]. She had a lot of brothers, but I have no idea what their names were (they were killed in World War I and I don’t think she ever talked about them).
I’ll do some digging and get back to this thread. There are sure to be some oddities on the Portuguese side of the family.

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My grandmother had a cousin called Caramel. Who was a man. I always thought that was interesting.

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Wow great name list!

The name that stands out amongst my ancestors was my Great x 5 Grandmother named [name_f]Ann[/name_f]-[name_f]Sugar[/name_f] .

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While hunting down Mathurin (born in 1568 and his son also Mathurin in 1594) I also found an [name_m]Anselme[/name_m]. I have [name_m]Melchior[/name_m], too (born in 1518)! I can’t get myself to like the name, though. It looks pretty but it just sounds weird.

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I have quite a few. I’ll drag out my list once I’m on my laptop. Some of my favorites off the top of my head are [name_m]Harmon[/name_m], [name_m]Hamilton[/name_m], [name_u]Murphy[/name_u], [name_m]Callaway[/name_m]… most of mine are surnames or have a very surnamey feel.

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[name_f]Minnie[/name_f] [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] : I wouldn’t use [name_f]Minnie[/name_f], but it’s a cute name.
Pretoria [name_f]May[/name_f]: Also wouldn’t use but it’s unusual and was amongst a bunch of normal names.
[name_f]Florence[/name_f] [name_f]Emma[/name_f]
[name_m]Alec[/name_m] [name_u]Percy[/name_u]
[name_f]Rosa[/name_f] [name_f]Jane[/name_f]

Then there’s the [name_f]Emma[/name_f]'s, [name_f]Eliza[/name_f]'s, [name_f]Florence[/name_f]'s … Lots of [name_f]Eliza[/name_f]'s and [name_f]Florence[/name_f]'s. Lot’s of [name_m]John[/name_m]'s, [name_m]Edward[/name_m]'s, not very many [name_f]Mary[/name_f]'s.

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I had a g-grandmother whose first name was [name_f]Xena[/name_f]. Her husband’s middles included [name_u]Courtney[/name_u].

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I rather like [name_m]Anselme[/name_m], but I’m not much of a fan of [name_m]Melchior[/name_m] either. My Mathurin was just a couple of decades older than yours - born in 1544 and died in 1608. The family name was Pineau.