Unusual Real Names – Bluma, Oseola, Susybelle, Torquil
| 9 November 2009 | Filed under Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names |
This batch of unusual real names features a dozen charitable people, most of whom were born in an English-speaking country:
- Bluma Appel (1919-2007) of Canada.
- Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955) of Armenia.
- Jacobena Angliss (1896-1980) of Australia.
- Kroum Pindoff (b. 1915) of Canada, originally Bulgaria.
- Leonidas Lent Hamline (1797-1865) of America.
- Lieven Gevaert (1868-1935) of Belgium.
- LuEsther Mertz (1905-1991) of America.
- Macpherson Robertson (1859-1945) of Australia.
- Oseola McCarty (1908-1999) of America.
- Susybelle Wilkinson Lyons (1923-2007) of America.
- Torquil Norman (b. 1933) of England.
- Uncas Aeneas Whitaker (1900-1975) of America.
Probably the only list of philanthropists Bill Gates will never make. :)
I’m sorry to those who commented on this post earlier today. I approved the comments from the airport, but after my flight, I found that the post (and comments) were gone. I don’t know what went wrong. I was able to retrieve the post, but unfortunately not the comments.
This is a great post. I made a similar post on baby names at:
http://www.namelymarly.com/blog/2009/10/bad-names/
It’s interesting sometimes that names that people select.
Marly
Susybelle is really cute, and it has lots of nice nicknames- Susie/Susy/Suzy or Bella, or Sue (if you don’t like the more obvious nicknames).