I'm maybe glad most of my ancestry is swedish and irish for unembarrassing naming conventions ? We've got Astrid and Enid, Tresabel and Rose, and I like those names. A lot gets lost in immigration.

Honestly, were the unlikely to happen and I birth a girl, I'd love to name her after Tresabel. One of my cousin's kids carries her as a middle name. One of the most incredible compliments I've been given is that I remind my mom and one of her sisters of Tres (their mother.)

My family carries names like Deloris Delrio, Galileo, Herschel, Nonaine, Gilette, Olivine, Tekla, and many others I can't remember without consulting the family tree. My parents and their siblings don't go by their given names for a variety of reasons. My dad goes by his mother's maiden name as his first name, having ditched his given middle name and initialised his first name. My mother goes by her first name professionally, but her family calls her...well, basically a homonym of my father's chosen name. Not that his family calls him that--he gets called Moore because he has a brother that goes by Les.

I always think of your family when the name convo comes up, ita.

Herschel

No one in your family tree was named Herschel Opostrolier were they?

My family's names are fairly boring, except for one side, where I realized that there were at least three boys named Hermann Stern born within ten years of each other in a village of only 78 people.

Who's Opostrolier? Actually, the Herschel is Herschel Galileo--a lurking astronomy buff, I suppose.

I always think of your family when the name convo comes up, ita.

Jamaicans be crazy.

That you should be named Not!Prudent?

Ha!

The most stunning (to me) of my family names is Catherinus. I know it's a great-grandfather - I think my father's father's father.

Off to bed. Name day in Natter was a fun day to have off.

Herschel Opostrolier was one of the greatest jester in Jewish history. Not seriously asked, I always forget he is not that well known cause I grew up with him. Actually there are lots of Jews who never heard of him, so it was an unjustifiably obscure joke.

I mean, great-grandpa was Eber, and I can only guess if that's another phonetic spelling for something French.

Might be short for Eberhart/Eberhard/Eberhardt. I've also got a couple of guys named Trieber and one named Reber in my genealogy file.

The ones I boggle at are when titles get used as first names. Examples from my (extremely extended) family file: Admiral, Baron, Bishop, Colonel, Commodore, Earl, Judge, King, Lady, LeRoy, Major, Marquis, Marshal, Master, Princess, Queen, Royal, Duke, General, Major, Pope, Squire, Sid, Sargeant/Sergeant, Priest, Deacon.

Earl and Duke and Leroy and Sid are pretty common now, but the rest? Too weird.