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Popularity of the baby name Consolata


Posts that mention the name Consolata

The names of the world’s oldest living siblings

On June 1, 2012, Guinness World Records verified that the nine Melis siblings (six women, three men) of Perdasdefogu, Italy, were the oldest living siblings in the world. That day, their combined age was 818 years and 205 days.

Here are the names of all nine:

  1. Consolata (b. August 22, 1907)
  2. Claudina (b. June 30, 1913)
  3. Maria (b. June 12, 1915)
  4. Antonino (b. May 5, 1919)
  5. Concetta (b. February 24, 1921)
  6. Adolfo (b. October 20, 1923)
  7. Vitalio (b. February 6, 1926)
  8. Fida Vitalia (b. October 5, 1931)
  9. Mafalda (b. June 16, 1934) — nicknamed la piccolina, or “the little one”

Their parents were Francesco and Eleonora Melis, both born in the 1880s.

To what does Alfonso attribute their collective longevity? “We eat genuine food, meaning lots of minestrone and little meat and we are always working. Every free moment I have I am down at my vineyard or at the allotment where I grow beans, aubergines, peppers and potatoes.”

Which of the nine names do you like best?

Sources: In Sardinia, world’s longest-living family credits hard work, diet, family, Sardinian siblings credit minestrone soup for world record age

Unusual baby names from Marian titles

We all know of baby names that come from Marian titles — names like Fátima, Lourdes, Dolores, Guadalupe, Carmel, Pilar, Milagros, Mercedes, Luz, Consolata, Consuelo, Corazón, Loreto, Remedios, and so on.

Well, I discovered three more the other day that were brand new to me.

The first was Chiquinquirá, which I learned about through a Gawker post (of all places). The name belongs to TV personality María Chiquinquirá Delgado Díaz of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Her name was inspired by La Virgen de Chiquinquirá, patroness of Colombia, of the Peruvian city of Caraz, and of the Venezuelan state of Zulia (which is where Maracaibo is located).

This discovery inspired me to seek out other rare Marian title-names (rare for the U.S., anyway). I ended up finding two more: Suyapa and Lasalette.

Suyapa comes from La Virgen de Suyapa, patroness of Honduras. (Suyapa is a suburb of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.) I found a few dozen instances of this name both on the SSA’s baby name lists and in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI).

Lasalette comes from Our Lady of La Salette, a Marian apparition that occurred in France in the mid-1800s. I knew of the apparition, but I’d never realized La Salette was used as a name until I checked the SSDI and found three Lasalettes.

You learn something new every day, I guess. :)