Showing posts with label baby names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby names. Show all posts

Monday, August 23, 2010

Mumlightenment: Anglo-Saxon baby names for girls starting with A

Anglo-Saxon is one of those generic terms we now use to describe Australians with a family tree that stretches back to dear old England. In fact, Anglo-Saxon refers to a time in England's history from around 500AD to after the Norman Conquest in 1066. Anglo-Saxons often fused Celtic techniques and traditions, so it's hardly a surprise that some of the names below sound almost Elfin!

Acca     
Aedre    
Aefentid
Aefre    
Aerlene    
Aethelflaed    
Aethelthryth    
Aisley    
Aisly    
Alodia    
Andsware    
Andswaru    
Anlicnes    
Anlienisse    
Annis    
Ar    
Ardith    
Arianrod    
Ashley    
Audrey
Avery

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Mumlightenment: Shakesperean baby names for boys

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet."
When William Shakespeare created these words for Juliet in his famous play about star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, he also inspired some amazing names that today's parents can choose if they feel sick of the current crop of popular names.
William Shakespeare not only created wonderful quotes, characters and plots, but invented and popularised many names. Boy names seem to be a little easier to come by in Shakespeare's plays, probably because Shakespeare's characters were more likely to be male. Without feminism to lead the charge, all actors were male, even if they played female parts. Here are some baby names for boys inspired by Shakespeare.
Bertram, Lavache, Parolles (All's Well that Ends Well)

Adam, Amiens, Corin, Oliver (As You Like It)

Angelo, Dromio, Solinus (Comedy of Errors)

Claudius, Francisco, Hamlet, Horatio, Voltimand (Hamlet)

Curan, Edgar, Edmund, Lear, Oswald (King Lear)

Angus, Banquo, Duncan, Lennox, Malcolm, Ross, seyton (Macbeth)

Fenton, Ford, Nym, Pistol, Robin (Merry Wives of Windsor)

Demetrius, Lysander, Oberon, Puck, Quince (Midsummer Night's Dream)

Cassio, Iago, Montano (Othello)

Cerimon, Cleon (Pericles)

Mercutio, Paris, Sampson, Tybalt (Romeo)

Alonso, Ariel, Caliban, Prospero (The Tempest)

Curio, Fabian, Orsino, Sebastian (Twelfth Night)

Dion, Leontes (Winter's Tale)
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