https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:16:25 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1818187 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:30:42 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1818187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@getjazzy: I did a 30 day free trial with ancestry.com. I'd love to pay a genealogist one day and get a more in depth look at our family histories. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1818125 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:10:30 +0000 Shutterbug 1818125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@getjazzy: ancestry.com! I even found some ancestors' passport photos. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1817799 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:07:12 +0000 LuLu Mom 1817799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A couple that I've learned recently: </p> <p>One of my great grandmother's was Lela which I think is beautiful (but she wasn't a very nice woman so I think my mom would be upset if we used it.) </p> <p>My grandmother's middle name is Alvine which is cool, and my great grandpa was Tucker, which I love too! DH isn't on board with that though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1817676 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:13:32 +0000 getjazzy 1817676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bpcmarj: That's funny, I'm french and Etienne is actually not that uncommon. I know someone my age (28) with the name.</p> <p>How are you guys going about doing your family trees? I would love to, but with Grandparents passed away and such, how do you find all your information? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1817652 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 07:57:29 +0000 littleredhairedgrl 1817652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine aren't too out of the ordinary but these are the most fun:</p> <p>Solveig<br /> Desli<br /> Dauna<br /> Whitney<br /> Nunzio<br /> Guytano<br /> Emil </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1817614 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 07:40:49 +0000 Eko 1817614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My brother's name is Blaise. It's a cool name, but I would never use it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1817427 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:18:46 +0000 Woolly Mammoth 1817427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our friends have a toddler named Ottilia! She's a cutie. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816621 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:26:09 +0000 Ellie 1816621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cool post!<br /> I too did my genealogy and my husbands. Apparently a lot of people in our families had names that started with the letter E.</p> <p>Here are some fave first names from ours: (sorry it's a bit of a long list... I had compiled it a while ago for the same reason as the OP)</p> <p>Armida<br /> Bliss<br /> Burchill<br /> Carlile<br /> Creighton<br /> Eliakim<br /> Elida<br /> Elmo<br /> Emeranda<br /> Ephraim<br /> Etheline<br /> Euphemia<br /> Euphenia<br /> Evelena<br /> Flossie<br /> Freeman<br /> Guildma<br /> Hester<br /> Holmer<br /> Isidore<br /> Jemima<br /> Jeniva<br /> Lardner<br /> Lodowick<br /> Madilla<br /> Marinda<br /> Morrison<br /> Noble<br /> Nettie<br /> Orsamus<br /> Suther<br /> Triphenia<br /> Willena<br /> Zereda</p> <p>Names are so fun! </p> <p>I know that years from now, future generations will probably be adding our names to their lists ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816559 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:08:35 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1816559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Boopers: Devil Bill... That's different! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816547 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:04:19 +0000 stiletto_mom 1816547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine are quite boring.</p> <p>XD</p> <p>Really liking these though:<br /> Philemon<br /> Estaire<br /> Sabelta<br /> Ottilia<br /> Balthazar<br /> Othelia<br /> Wyrinda<br /> Leander </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816538 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:56:25 +0000 Katrocap 1816538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Enoch is the only real unusual one on my side. DH has an ancestor (male) named Philo, and DH's grandmother's name was Mozina (the female version of Moses). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816463 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:02:35 +0000 Dandelion 1816463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My great grandmothers name is Eulilia. I love it. She went by Lilly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816438 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:46:52 +0000 Iced Tea 1816438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@boopers That's awesome!</p> <p>Ebenezer<br /> Huse<br /> Laird<br /> Rondal<br /> Faulkner<br /> Wyrinda<br /> Mahala<br /> Leander<br /> Elbert<br /> Napoleon<br /> Pleasant<br /> Ambrose<br /> Oma<br /> Fortunatus</p> <p>And there's someone with the last name Trueblood! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816413 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:29:23 +0000 Boopers 1816413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Goldie Moon<br /> Devil Bill- no joke </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816397 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:17:14 +0000 LemonLong 1816397@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Emil and Bohmil were my mom's uncles' names and she was named after her grandmother Jacomina. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816388 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:11:54 +0000 bpcmarj 1816388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>On my Dad's French side - Ludivine was my Aunt and my Great-Grandmother's name. There was also a Malvina. Strangest is the great-something grandfather born in 1769 with the name Etienne Simon. My sister is Adrienne Simone.</p> <p>On Mom's side is Loyree and Lucy. Oh, and Pocahontas. haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816327 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:17:50 +0000 erinpye 1816327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: I actually know a Keziah! I think it's a Bible name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816269 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:51:51 +0000 lady grey 1816269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cora, Edna, Hazel</p> <p>My grandfather was Faust, but whet by "Charlie". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816251 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:43:34 +0000 fairy 1816251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Those are really cool! I wish I had a better picture of my family tree. I have a great grandma named Mattie Mae and that is where I got my middle name Mae from :) I have great aunts Myrtle and Esta and an aunt Hannelore - I think those are the most interesting names I know of in my family! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816248 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:40:22 +0000 lamariniere 1816248@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My great grandmother was Wilma. On my Chinese side I have tons that I can't easily pronounce! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816226 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:28:29 +0000 MadamBabyFever 1816226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My great grandmothers name was Othelia which i'd love as a middle name<br /> My grandmother's name is Dorothea which isn't so unusual but i love it<br /> My family is norwegian so there are loads unusual named but few Work well in an english speaking country </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816210 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:22:04 +0000 Mamaof2 1816210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know off hand but my dad is into the ancestry stuff and way down the lined there was a guy with my DS's name - so now I can say he was named after family and mean it :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816205 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:19:24 +0000 loki 1816205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My grandma's mom's name was Zebby and I really love it.<br /> A couple names I love for girls are Rose, Willa and Hazel and I recently found out we have all three in our family! Not that unusual but I thought that was cool :)</p> <p>DH's family is japanese so they have all sorts of amazing names. His dad is Wataru and I love it as a middle name but DH won't do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816193 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:12:17 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1816193@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband's great great grandmother was full Native American (i can remember which tribe) &amp; her name was Osawa. I don't know much about my own family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816170 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:05:35 +0000 CakeLady 1816170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My grandfather was Merlyn Earl. There is a Brunhilda in the mix as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816120 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:44:05 +0000 raspberries 1816120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My great grandmas were Evangelina and Ora Lee, which I always thought were two pretty neat names.</p> <p>DH has a Verna Mae and a few generations of Telford, and as well as a string of about 6 Johann's in a row! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816110 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:38:52 +0000 Applesandbananas 1816110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Balthazar. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816104 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:34:01 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1816104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My favorite is Wiseman! It was used in two generations. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816103 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:33:25 +0000 swedishfish 1816103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hmmm...I'll have to break out my laptop later. That's where Family Tree Maker is. I have a lot of Dutch names in my family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/interestingunusual-names-from-your-family-tree#post-1816101 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:33:08 +0000 youboots 1816101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! Awesome list. My Dad loves doing family research, usually his vacations include some sort of visiting family lands, research, etc.</p> <p>One I love is Sterling, M does not at all.</p> <p>My Mom's family dog was named Tippy, I know it's not the same, but we will name our next dog that. </p>