Names with great namesakes

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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!)

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[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”)

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Boys:

[name_m]Twain[/name_m] (Mark Twain)
[name_m]Meriwether[/name_m] [name_m]Lewis[/name_m], [name_u]William[/name_u] [name_m]Clark[/name_m] (Lewis & [name_m]Clark[/name_m], explorers of much of the uncharted American territory)
[name_m]Galileo[/name_m] (Galileo Galilei)
[name_m]Abraham[/name_m] or [name_u]Lincoln[/name_u] (Abraham [name_u]Lincoln[/name_u], famous president)
[name_m]Julius[/name_m] (Julius Caesar)
[name_m]Albert[/name_m] (Albert Einstein)
[name_m]Isaac[/name_m] / [name_m]Newton[/name_m] (Isaac Newton)
[name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m] [name_m]Amadeus[/name_m] [name_m]Mozart[/name_m] (Mozart)
[name_m]Ludwig[/name_m] (Beethoven)
[name_m]Ulysses[/name_m] or [name_m]Grant[/name_m] (Ulysses S. Grant)
[name_m]Winston[/name_m] (Churchill)
[name_m]Johann[/name_m] or [name_m]Sebastian[/name_m] (Bach)
[name_m]Edgar[/name_m] or [name_m]Allen[/name_m] or [name_u]Poe[/name_u] (obvious)
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m] or [name_m]Douglass[/name_m]
[name_m]Carver[/name_m] (George [name_m]Washington[/name_m] Carver)
[name_m]Thurgood[/name_m] or [name_m]Marshall[/name_m]
[name_m]Booker[/name_m] (Booker T. Washington)

Girls:
[name_f]Rosa[/name_f] (Rosa Parks)
[name_f]Harriet[/name_f] (Harriet Tubman)
[name_u]Marie[/name_u] (Marie Curie)
[name_u]Ruby[/name_u] (Ruby Bridges)
[name_f]Althea[/name_f] (Althea Gibson)
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] (Ada Lovelace)
[name_f]Jane[/name_f] or [name_u]Austen[/name_u] (Jane Austen)
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] (Emmeline Pankhurst)
[name_u]Florence[/name_u] (Florence Nightingale)
[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f] (of Aquitaine)
[name_f]Diana[/name_f] (Princess of Wales)
[name_u]Cleo[/name_u] (Cleopatra)
[name_u]Joan[/name_u] (Joan of Arc)
[name_f]Hypatia[/name_f]
[name_f]Gabriela[/name_f] (Gabriela Mistral)
[name_f]Deborah[/name_f] (biblical figure)
[name_u]Jael[/name_u] (biblical figure)

[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)

Hopefully these help! :slight_smile:

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This is a style I favor greatly!

[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]

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[name_f]Josephine[/name_f] (Josephine Baker)
[name_u]Baker[/name_u] (Josephine [name_u]Baker[/name_u] and [name_m]Gilbert[/name_m] Baker)
[name_m]Gilbert[/name_m] (Gilbert Baker)
[name_f]Rosa[/name_f] (Rosa [name_u]Parks[/name_u] and [name_f]Rosa[/name_f] Luxemburg)
[name_m]Sandor[/name_m] (Sandor Petofi)
[name_m]Garrett[/name_m], [name_u]Morgan[/name_u] (Garrett Morgan)
[name_f]Franca[/name_f], [name_f]Viola[/name_f] (Franca Viola)
[name_f]Rosalind[/name_f], [name_u]Franklin[/name_u] (Rosalind Franklin)
[name_u]Maria[/name_u], [name_f]Sibylla[/name_f], Merian (Maria [name_f]Sibylla[/name_f] Merian)
[name_f]Amelia[/name_f] (Amelia Earhart)
[name_f]Maya[/name_f] (Maya Angelou)
[name_f]Marina[/name_f] (Marina Raskova)
[name_f]Aurelia[/name_f] (Aurelia Browder)
[name_f]Claudette[/name_f] (Claudette Colvin)
[name_f]Linnea[/name_f] (Carl Linnaeus)
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m] (Alexander [name_m]Fleming[/name_m], [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] [name_m]Graham[/name_m] Bell)
[name_m]Fleming[/name_m] (Alexander Fleming)
[name_m]Graham[/name_m], [name_u]Bell[/name_u] (Alexander [name_m]Graham[/name_m] Bell)
[name_m]Tycho[/name_m] (Tycho Brahe)
[name_u]Michael[/name_u], [name_u]Faraday[/name_u] (Michael Faraday)

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