How popular is the baby name Julius in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Julius.
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Tuesday’s post about the Victorian-style Tylney Hall Hotel reminded me of a list of Victorian-era names that I’ve had bookmarked forever.
The list was created by amateur genealogist G. M. Atwater as a resource for writers. It contains names and name combinations that were commonly seen in the U.S. from the 1840s to the 1890s. Below is the full list (with a few minor changes).
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Which female name and male name do you like best?
The latest film version of Les Misérables comes out on December 25.
The movie(s) and the musical are based on Victor Hugo’s book Les Misérables, which is set in France in the early 1800s — not long after the French Revolution.
The story is full of characters with interesting (dare I say enticing?) French names. Will any of them become trendy baby names once the movie is out? Perhaps!
Here are six likely contenders:
“The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?”
“Cosette?” Gavroche grumbled; “yes, I think it is that absurd name.”
“Well,” Jean Valjean continued, “you have to deliver the letter to me; so give it here.”
[…]
“Here it is.”
And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean.
“And make haste, Monsieur Chose, since Mamselle Chosette is waiting.”
[T]he female Thénardier was nothing but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest daughter was named Eponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore the name of Azelma.
Fantine was one of those beings who bloom, so to speak, out of the dregs of the people. Issuing from the lowest depths of the social darkness, she had on her forehead the stamp of the anonymous and the unknown. She was born at M—- on sur M—-. Of what parents? Who could say? She had never known either father or mother. She called herself Fantine. Why Fantine? She had never been known by any other name. At the period of her birth the Directory was still in existence. She had no family name, as she had no family; and no Christian name, as the church was abolished. She accepted the name given her by the first passer-by, who saw her running barefooted about the streets. She received a name as she received the water from the clouds on her head when it rained. She was called Little Fantine. No one knew any more.
Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned to read in his childhood. When he reached man’s estate, he became a tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a contraction of voilà Jean, “here’s Jean.”
Which of these names is most likely to take off in 2013, do you think?
Sources:
In December of 1951, Mary Hertrich of Queens went into labor while shopping at the New York Macy’s.
“Salesgirls made frantic telephone calls to the medical department, and Dr. Julius Doppelt rushed down.”
Mary gave birth to a baby girl, and the baby was named Ann Macy. The store manager later became Ann’s godfather.
(Is anyone else surprised that Macy’s once had a sizable medical department?)
Sources:
Image: Macy’s, New York, N.Y. – LOC
Major League Baseball pitcher Cal McLish was born in 1925. He played from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s for a total of seven different teams.
His full name? Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish.
Why?
Here’s what he told reporters in the mid-1950s:
“There were seven of us in the family and my mother named all but me,” says Cal. “When I came along she let dad pick a name and he came up with Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma. It’s a dandy, ain’t it?
“I don’t know why he named me Calvin Coolidge. He never voted Republican in his life, in fact, he was a Democrat. Just liked the name, I guess. And I suppose that’s why he slipped Julius Caesar in there, too.
“Tuskahoma is an Indian name, so that makes sense. I think it was a town in the Indian territory of Oklahoma. Both my mom and dad were born in Indian territory though they’re not full-blooded Indians.”
He went on to mention that his dad (John) was one-quarter Chickasaw and his mother (Lula) was one-sixteenth Cherokee.
Source: Vaughan, Doug. “On the Rebound.” Windsor Daily Star 5 Jun. 1956: 18.