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ArchivesIs there a female name Mattea or Mathea?
I know Mattia is an Italian male name. But is there a female form of Mathias (Matthew in English)? I've seen Mattea and Mathea but maybe they are newly made up?
"But it’s all right now.
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"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, Garden Party
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
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AS FAR AS I KNOW THEY'RE NEWER NAMES BUT I'M NOT 100% SURE ON HOW NEW THEY ARE BUT I LIKE THEM BOTH
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Thank you
At least there seem to be Matea and Mateja.
With "newly made-up" names I mean names made-up during the last 10 years. A real traditional name should be many hundred years old imo.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, Garden Party
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
At least there seem to be Matea and Mateja.
With "newly made-up" names I mean names made-up during the last 10 years. A real traditional name should be many hundred years old imo.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, Garden Party
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
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In Spanish...
there is the form Matea, which is the feminine form of Mateo (Matthew). It is not very usual, but it is legit.
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
there is the form Matea, which is the feminine form of Mateo (Matthew). It is not very usual, but it is legit.
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
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Well, one the one hand, as you said already, it is no problem at all to find quite a number of examples of actual people with these names, e.g. by using Google. On the other hand, a search for these names in the Mormon Church records did not turn up any "old" examples of these names, e.g. from 1800 or so, rising the probability that indeed these names are young.
See
http://www.ancestorhunt.com/mormon_church_records.htm
But anyway: Isn't this a very slippery road? Where do you put your boundary? Would you say there "is" no female form, just people with newly made-up names, if none of these people is older than 40? Older than 50? What would you do with 1 example of somebody with this name in 1850? Would this change your view? If not, would 2 Examples? 10?
I do not want to criticize you, of course you are free to apply any criteria that you like. I just want to point out that your question seems extremely difficult to answer to me.
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
See
http://www.ancestorhunt.com/mormon_church_records.htm
But anyway: Isn't this a very slippery road? Where do you put your boundary? Would you say there "is" no female form, just people with newly made-up names, if none of these people is older than 40? Older than 50? What would you do with 1 example of somebody with this name in 1850? Would this change your view? If not, would 2 Examples? 10?
I do not want to criticize you, of course you are free to apply any criteria that you like. I just want to point out that your question seems extremely difficult to answer to me.
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
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