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.
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'Sleeper'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Jan 07, 2009 5:53:31 pm PST #41 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2009 5:55:00 pm PST #42 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Pix - Jan 07, 2009 5:58:23 pm PST #43 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
That you should be named Not!Prudent?
Ha!
JenP - Jan 07, 2009 5:58:51 pm PST #44 of 30000
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.
Typo Boy - Jan 07, 2009 5:59:38 pm PST #45 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
dcp - Jan 07, 2009 6:00:07 pm PST #46 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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.
meara - Jan 07, 2009 6:09:33 pm PST #47 of 30000
I met a guy (who'd be early 30s now) who was named SIR, at a scholarship weekend, before I started college. Like, we were looking at the list of participants and went "...he's not seriously a knight, is he?" and then realized no, his parents had named him Sir. I guess they figured that way it'd always sound like he was being respected...
Hil R. - Jan 07, 2009 6:12:52 pm PST #48 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Sigh. The Washington Post has an article speculating on whether or not Sasha and Malia will join the Black Student Union at Sidwell, and if they do, what it'll mean for their father's "post-racial" reputation. This is getting ridiculous. [link]
dcp - Jan 07, 2009 6:20:18 pm PST #49 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Where the Dornis comes from, though, no one really knows.
Dunno about Dornis as a first name, but it's not uncommon for children to be given a family surname for a first name.
Dornis as a surname seems to come from Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Slovenia.
Typo Boy - Jan 07, 2009 6:21:12 pm PST #50 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I met a guy ... who was named SIR, his parents had named him Sir. ...I guess they figured that way it'd always sound like he was being respected...
There used to be a practice among poor rural whites in the South and West of naming kids Judge and Colonel and General for just that reason. Occasional rather than common practice, but something that happened often enough not to be remarked upon.