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Popularity of the baby name Selig


Posts that mention the name Selig

Reduplicated names: Asher Asher, Owen Owen

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I find it interesting that some people are given forenames that exactly match their surnames. A few historically significant examples include:

(Ford Madox Ford and Horst P. Horst don’t count. They were born Ford Hermann Hueffer and Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann.)

There are also many forename/surname sets out there that are partially reduplicated, such as:

Have you ever met someone whose first name and last name were identical (or nearly so)? Do you like these sorts of names?

P.S. The name Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (which belonged to a guy who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior for a few weeks in 1850) is as close to a double double as I’ve ever seen!

Image: Adapted from Two Variable Oystercatchers standing close to each other (public domain)

[Last update: October 2023]

Happy baby names: Asher, Felicity, Isaac, Risa

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Here are some names with meanings that have to do with happiness:

  • Alaia – Basque for “joyful, happy.”
  • Asher – Hebrew for “happy, blessed.”
  • Bahija – Arabic for “happy, glad.”
  • Brosi (m) – from the Old Norse word brosa, meaning “to smile.”
  • Fariha – Arabic for “happy.”
  • Felix – Latin for “lucky, successful.”
  • Felicity – from the Latin word felicitas, meaning “good luck.”
  • Fortunato and Fortunata – from the Latin word for “fortunate.”
  • Giocondo and Gioconda – from a Latin name meaning “pleasant, delightful, happy.”
  • Hani – Arabic for “happy.”
  • Isaac – based on a Hebrew name meaning “he will laugh.”
  • Makena – Kikuyu for “happy one.”
  • Macario/Macarius – ultimately based on the Greek word makar, “blessed, happy.”
  • Parviz/Parvaiz – Persian for “fortunate, happy.”
  • Radek (m) and Rada (f) – from the Slavic element rad, meaning “happy, willing.”
  • Risa – Latin for “laugh.”
  • Sikkersoq – Greenlandic for “bud” or “sprout,” but it also means “burst out laughing.”
  • Teitur – from the Old Norse word teitr, meaning “cheerful, merry.”
  • Zelig/Selig – Yiddish for “blessed, happy.”

Which one do you like best?

Image: Adapted from Sunflower by tsaiproject under CC BY 2.0.