Interesting names from Family Tree!

General Name Discussion
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I recently dove into Ancestry.com to find out more about my family history and, let’s be honest, to see what kind of awesome names are in my family tree :slight_smile:

I came across some pretty interesting/nice names from it and thought I’d share! I also added the birth year to compare the names with the times. I’ve * my favorites.

Girls:

[name]Mary[/name] [name]Ann[/name] [name]Charlotte[/name]* b. 1840
[name]Lucretia[/name] [name]Ann[/name] b. 1858 (For some reason went by [name]Elizabeth[/name] though…)
[name]Martha[/name] [name]Eugenia[/name]* “[name]Marthy[/name]” b. 1868
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Alice[/name] b. 1880
[name]Eveline[/name] b. 1813
[name]Lula[/name] b. 1904
[name]Lynna[/name] [name]Belle[/name] b. 1901
[name]Mariah[/name] [name]Barlow[/name] b. 1860
[name]Nettie[/name] [name]Marie[/name] b. 1919
Gussye b. 1891
Mollye b. 1889 (Not quite sure the need for the extra “e” on [name]Gussy[/name] and [name]Molly[/name]…)
[name]Samira[/name] [name]Ann[/name] b. 1829
[name]Annie[/name]* [name]Ruth[/name] b. 1918
[name]Hattie[/name]* [name]Eugenia[/name]* b. 1898
[name]Malinda[/name] [name]Almeda[/name] b. 1853
[name]Nancy[/name] [name]Ardella[/name] b. 1887
Rushia [name]Mac[/name] b. 1892
[name]Mae[/name]* b. 1914

Boys:

[name]Abner[/name] [name]Williamson[/name] b. 1865
[name]Alonzo[/name] [name]Thomas[/name] “[name]Lonzo[/name]” b. 1870
[name]Bryant[/name]* [name]Lafayette[/name] b. 1862
[name]Christopher[/name] [name]Columbus[/name] “[name]Lum[/name]” b. 1860
[name]Cullen[/name]* [name]Theopolis[/name] b. 1857
[name]Lafayette[/name] “[name]Fate[/name]” b. 1827
[name]Nathaniel[/name]* [name]Andrew[/name] b. 1746
[name]Reuben[/name] [name]Jasper[/name] b. 1853
[name]Robert[/name] [name]Tucker[/name] b. 1867
[name]Seaborn[/name] b. 1804
[name]Chester[/name] [name]Dallas[/name] b. 1921
Comadore [name]Edward[/name] b. 1917
[name]Henry[/name]* [name]Edmond[/name]* b. 1894
[name]William[/name] [name]Robert[/name] b. 1896
[name]Jeptha[/name] b. 1857
Tolly b. 1881
[name]Cleveland[/name] “[name]Cleve[/name]” and [name]Stevenson[/name] “[name]Steve[/name]” - twins b. 1893
[name]James[/name]* [name]Oliver[/name]* b. 1887
[name]Alfred[/name] [name]Newton[/name] b. 1881
[name]Arthur[/name] [name]Ray[/name] b. 1911
[name]Arthur[/name] [name]Taylor[/name] b. 1886
[name]Bennett[/name]* [name]Jay[/name] b. 1879
[name]Bennett[/name]* [name]Kendrick[/name] b. 1805
[name]Horace[/name] Welburn* b. 1919
[name]Robert[/name] [name]Preston[/name] b. 1914
[name]Leon[/name] [name]Newton[/name] b. 1905
[name]Vernon[/name] [name]Bennett[/name]* b. 1908 (As you can tell [name]Bennett[/name] is a name from generations, which I love because I love the name!)
[name]Thomas[/name] [name]Franklin[/name] b. 1889
[name]Thomas[/name] [name]Haydon[/name] b. 1916 (I always think it’s interesting to see [name]Haydon[/name] here from 1916)

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I was helping someone else research her family tree recently and came across the most adorable name from the mid-1800s… [name]Eva[/name] [name]Belle[/name] Tillinghurst.

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[name]Jasper[/name], [name]Logan[/name], and [name]Sloan[/name] are all in my family tree. I love them all. There’s also [name]Hawthorne[/name] which I may use as a middle name. It’s fun to look into the past to find cool names now!

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AHHH! Fun! I don’t have as much detail as you do original poster but, I have found some nice names!
[name]Patricia[/name] [name]Faye[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name], [name]Clara[/name] [name]Mae[/name] All I can recall right now but very very nice.

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I always thought my great-grandfather’s name was [name]Alexander[/name], but a couple of days ago, we were going through some old family files and I happened to come across my grandmother’s baptismal certificate. On it, it listed her father’s name as Theophil! That’s the only paper that identifies him by that name, but I assume it must be his real first name because it also had my great-grandmother’s formal first name ([name]Anastasia[/name]) on it as well, and she never went by that name either! (She preferred [name]Nancy[/name].) So he’s actually Theophil [name]Alexander[/name]… I can kinda see why he decided to go by [name]Alex[/name] instead! (However, I am finding a newfound appreciation for [name]Theodore[/name], which makes my husband happy. It’s one of his top names.)

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Wow! I like [name]Martha[/name] [name]Eugenia[/name] and [name]Nettie[/name] [name]Marie[/name]! [name]Lafayette[/name] (nn [name]Fate[/name]) is super interesting, too. I wonder if your ancestor [name]Lafayette[/name] was named for the general in the American Revolution.