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Popularity of the baby name Icilma


Posts that mention the name Icilma

Babies named for Vinolia cosmetics

vinolia soap, titanic

Speaking of Icilma, here’s another name associated with a bygone English brand: Vinolia.

Vinolia scented soaps (and other products) were on the market from the late 1880s until the 1960s. I don’t know how the founders of the English toiletries company came up with the name “Vinolia,” but I do know that the company was granted a Royal Warrant as the official soap-maker of Queen Victoria in 1900. And, rather famously, a rose-scented version of soap was offered to first-class passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic. (The “otto” part of the name refers to attar of roses.)

Unlike the name Icilma, the personal name Vinolia existed before the company was founded. (Here’s one in Texas in 1860, for instance.)

But when Vinolia products and ads started coming out, it does seem like usage of the name increased in various regions of the British empire. As an example, here’s a record for Miriam Vinolia Wilson, who was born in Saint James, Jamaica, in April of 1918:

vinolia, brand name, baby name
Miriam Vinolia Wilson, b. 1918, Jamaica

(The second-born twin was her sister Violet Maud Wilson.)

Do you like Vinolia as a baby name? Would you use it?

Source: Vinolia Company – Unilever Archives

Babies named for Icilma cosmetics

icilma, brand, beauty, baby name
Icilma: brand name & baby name

Icilma was an English cosmetics company. Icilma products (creams, soaps, powders, etc.) were on the market from the late 1890s until the mid-1960s.

The founder of Icilma was an Englishman named Stephen Armitage who had “acquired permission from the government to exploit a natural mineral water spring [in] Algeria, which had been discovered in the 1890s by oil prospectors.” He apparently coined the word “Icilma” by combining two Arabic words meaning “flows” and “water.”

So why are we talking about a long-gone bath-and-beauty brand on a baby name blog?

Because I’ve found dozens of females with “Icilma” as either a first or middle name. They earliest examples I’ve seen were born in the early 1900s. The most recent one I spotted was born in England in 2006.

Interestingly, the first Icilmas were born not just in England, but in various parts of the British empire. I found a particularly high number of Icilmas in Jamaica, for instance. Here’s a record for Icilma Marjorie Veronica O’Connor, who was born in Saint Andrew, Jamaica, in August of 1925:

icilma, baby name, brand name
Icilma O’Connor, b. 1925 in Jamaica

I also found a few living in the United States, but it looks like most/all of them were born elsewhere.

Do you like Icilma as a baby name?

Source: Icilma Co. Ltd. – Unilever Archives