Baby Name: gonzaga
Names that Make Me Smile
Something fun for the end of the week! The following names never fail to brighten my day. Archibald Constable (1774-1827), publisher from Scotland. Dr. Cotton Tufts (1734-1815), physician from Massachusetts. Endicott Peabody (1920-1997), politician from Massachusetts. Fabiana Bravo, opera singer from Argentina. Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974), astronomer from Switzerland who later moved to the U.S. Gillespie [...]
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Surnames of Saints – Becket, Drexel, Kirby, Seton
A couple of days ago, a reader named Christie mentioned in a comment that she’d named her first son after St. Maximilian Kolbe. Nope, her son’s name wasn’t Maximilian–it was Kolbe. Her comment reminded me of Elisabeth’s post on names from French birth announcements. One of the baby boys on the list, Vianney, may have [...]
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Wikipedia’s List of Unusual Personal Names