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in reply to a message by ✧･ﾟ: *Magpie*:･ﾟ✧
These are very interesting!
Lafayette - parents were military historians?
Pink / Pinkney - I read in a history of fashion that at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th centuries pink was typically used for boy babies and toddlers on the grounds that it was warm and energetic; girls got calm, passive pale blue! I've encountered several Black women in South AFrica named Pink or Pinky, but never a man or boy.
Judson - he'd fit right in with all the other -son names today
Burl - Ives? Funny old folk singer? Must have got his name from somewhere!
Isom - incomprehensible
Minor - poor kid. Even Junior would be better.
Ransom - I hope it's a lnfn. CS Lewis uses it as the ln of the central human character in his Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet etc): at one point (in Voyage to Venus I think) God makes a pun on Ransom (son of Ranulf) and ransom (payment leading to a captive being freed ... theologically), which convinces Ransom that he isn't imagining things - as a philologist, he knew his own etymology and would never mess with it!
Doc / Dock / Doctor - one of our top footballers in the 1990s I think was Doctor Khumalo. And it was said then that the seventh son in a LDS family was typically named Doctor, but I wouldn't know. Anyway, it's obviously aspirational!
Lemon - I hope this is a lnfn too! Anything rather than the fruit!
Shedrick - Shadrack, Shedrick, what's the difference? Could be a spelling error by the registrar or the parents.
Wellington - more military historians? Or did they enjoy walking in the rain?
Flem - OH DEAR
Orange - a red-head, perhaps? Or a tribute to Orange County, if it already existed ...
Lafayette - parents were military historians?
Pink / Pinkney - I read in a history of fashion that at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th centuries pink was typically used for boy babies and toddlers on the grounds that it was warm and energetic; girls got calm, passive pale blue! I've encountered several Black women in South AFrica named Pink or Pinky, but never a man or boy.
Judson - he'd fit right in with all the other -son names today
Burl - Ives? Funny old folk singer? Must have got his name from somewhere!
Isom - incomprehensible
Minor - poor kid. Even Junior would be better.
Ransom - I hope it's a lnfn. CS Lewis uses it as the ln of the central human character in his Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet etc): at one point (in Voyage to Venus I think) God makes a pun on Ransom (son of Ranulf) and ransom (payment leading to a captive being freed ... theologically), which convinces Ransom that he isn't imagining things - as a philologist, he knew his own etymology and would never mess with it!
Doc / Dock / Doctor - one of our top footballers in the 1990s I think was Doctor Khumalo. And it was said then that the seventh son in a LDS family was typically named Doctor, but I wouldn't know. Anyway, it's obviously aspirational!
Lemon - I hope this is a lnfn too! Anything rather than the fruit!
Shedrick - Shadrack, Shedrick, what's the difference? Could be a spelling error by the registrar or the parents.
Wellington - more military historians? Or did they enjoy walking in the rain?
Flem - OH DEAR
Orange - a red-head, perhaps? Or a tribute to Orange County, if it already existed ...
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