On 7 February 2010, with over 20,000 people watching, Irish jockey Richard Hughes won the McDowell Signature Indian Derby at Mahalaxmi Race Course in Mumbai. He was riding a filly named Jacqueline.
After the race, he was quoted as saying:
“You know what, my wife gave birth a couple of days back and I named the baby Phoebe Jacqueline. I knew she was going to win today. It’s so special. Jacqueline is now a part of my life.”
Reminds me of Bindi Sue, daughter of the late Steve Irwin (a.k.a. The Crocodile Hunter). She was named after both a crocodile (Bindi) and a dog (Sui).
Sources: Hughes win for Shroff, Jacqueline it is!, Jacqueline takes McDowell Signature Indian Derby
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On 5 June 1950, Myrtle Melvin of North Carolina gave birth to a baby girl in the back seat of a Queen City Trailways bus. She kept the baby wrapped in seat covers until the bus arrived at its destination, 
Popular Saint Name – Monica
Today is the feast day of St. Monica. She was a 4th century woman of Berber descent and is perhaps best known for being the mother of St. Augustine. She also had two other children, Navigius and Perpetua.
As with several other saint names (like Theresa, Katherine, Anthony, Ignatius and Casilda) no one knows for sure what Monica means. Author Garry Wills believes “its proper form is Monnica, related to the old Libyan god Mon, who was worshiped in nearby Thibilis.”
According to Ask Oxford, “in the early Middle Ages [Monica] was taken to be a derivative of Latin monere ‘to warn’, ‘counsel’, or ‘advise’, since it was as a result of [St. Monica's] guidance that her son was converted to Christianity.” This is similar to the way Veronica, a form of Berenice, later became associated with the Latin phrase vera icon, ‘true image.’
Monica is “the only Berber name commonly used in English,” according historian Michael Brett and archaelogist Elizabeth Fentress. It was among the top 100 baby girl names in the U.S. from the mid-1960s through the late 1990s, but began to fall out of favor right around the time of the Lewisky scandal. Currently, Monica is ranked 340th.
The double-N version, on the other hand, has always been extremely rare. Monnica’s best showing was in 1976, when a whopping 10 baby girls were given the name.
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