In search of a boy or girl or gender neutral name that has some unique and/or interesting historical connection, bonus if it would still be cool or maybe even unique today.
For example revolutionaries, artists, writers, music composers and makers, independent thinkers, poets, people who changed society, intellectuals, royals that did something for their people, courageous people and people of good and intelligent spirit, and people who fought for their rights!
Thank you
I thought immediately of
[name_u]Julie[/name_u] (after [name_u]Julie[/name_u] d’Aubigny, badass 17th-century opera singer and swordfighter)
[name_f]Frida[/name_f] (as in Kahlo)
Cannot think of anything for boys right now
However [name_u]Julie[/name_u] is not really my style (but I do not mind it!)
[name_m]Martin[/name_m], [name_m]Luther[/name_m] (Martin [name_m]Luther[/name_m] [name_m]King[/name_m], Jr.)
[name_f]Themistoclea[/name_f] (first known female philosopher, also a mathematician)
[name_u]Joan[/name_u] (of Arc)
Herodotus (early historian and scholar known as the “father of history”)
Sorry if these are a bit all over the place in terms of popularity/uniqueness.
[name_m]Galileo[/name_m] (Galilei)
[name_m]Leonardo[/name_m] (da Vinci)
[name_f]Boudicca[/name_f]
[name_f]Aurembiaix[/name_f]
[name_f]Marguerite[/name_f] (after [name_f]Marguerite[/name_f] de Navarre, also know as [name_f]Marguerite[/name_f] of AngoulĂŞme and [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] of Navarre)
[name_f]Victoria[/name_f] (after Queen [name_f]Victoria[/name_f])
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] (after [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] Pankhurst)
[name_f]Olympe[/name_f] (after [name_f]Olympe[/name_f] de Gouges, a French activist, feminist, playwright and political writer)
[name_m]Ludwig[/name_m] (van Beethoven)
[name_m]Augustus[/name_m] (first emperor of Rome; I particularly like the French form [name_u]Auguste[/name_u])
[name_u]Voltaire[/name_u]
[name_f]Colette[/name_f] (after the French author)
[name_m]Just[/name_m] about any names can have historical connection (Clara, [name_u]Henry[/name_u], [name_m]Alexander[/name_m], [name_m]Louis[/name_m], etc)
[name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m], [name_m]Hemingway[/name_m], [name_u]Arthur[/name_u], [name_m]Vincent[/name_m] (Van Gogh), [name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m], [name_f]Olympia[/name_f] (I like this in an Olympics year), [name_u]Poe[/name_u], [name_f]Ruth[/name_f], [name_m]Nicolai[/name_m], [name_u]Austen[/name_u], [name_f]Teresa[/name_f], [name_u]Florence[/name_u] [name_u]Nightingale[/name_u] (I like either), [name_m]Isaac[/name_m] or [name_m]Newton[/name_m], [name_m]Abraham[/name_m] or [name_m]Abe[/name_m] or [name_m]Bram[/name_m] or [name_u]Lincoln[/name_u], [name_m]Oscar[/name_m] or [name_u]Wilde[/name_u], [name_m]Twain[/name_m], [name_u]David[/name_u], [name_u]Madison[/name_u], [name_m]Leonardo[/name_m], [name_m]Jefferson[/name_m], [name_m]Alexander[/name_m], [name_m]Calvin[/name_m], [name_u]Charles[/name_u], [name_u]Presley[/name_u], [name_f]Dolly[/name_f], [name_m]Aristotle[/name_m], [name_f]Victoria[/name_f], [name_m]Albert[/name_m], [name_u]George[/name_u] for many reasons, [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] [name_m]Columbus[/name_m], [name_f]Maya[/name_f] or [name_f]Angelou[/name_f], [name_f]Amelia[/name_f] [name_u]Kennedy[/name_u], [name_f]Winfrey[/name_f], [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] or [name_m]Roosevelt[/name_m], [name_m]Paul[/name_m] the Apostle, Cromwell, [name_m]Peter[/name_m], [name_u]Reagan[/name_u], [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f], [name_u]Edison[/name_u], [name_f]Harriet[/name_f]