Weirdest names you have discovered in the family tree?

[GreenPartyVoter]

Hubby has a Puritan relative by the name of "Hate Evil". Wonder what her nickname was? :shrug:

[msatty99]

1. Great great grandpa was Napoleaon Bonaparte Moore

[JohnKleeb]

2. haha

mine- Kidney
the maiden name of a great grandmother from Ireland.

[reyd reid reed]

3. Betcha it was 'Hattie'

My mother's mother's name was George. Not Georgia or Georgina or any other kind of feminization of the name.

George.

George Frank.

George Frank Edith.

At least they got that girls name in there somewhere...

[FuzzySlippers]

4. Nothing as weird as that.

Things like Mehitable and Amasa(for a man).

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. We had a Mehitable too, and an Ambrose (guy)

[FuzzySlippers]

12. I think Mehitable was a common Puritan name.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Yep, as were the virtue names like Charity, Faith, and Grace.. etc

[kwassa]

41. Many Mehitabels in my family, too.

most of the rest were common Biblical names.

old colonial stock.

[deadparrot]

5. Ellig Olligs and Ollig Olligs. nt

[huskerlaw]

6. Some poor girl

in my family was called "Auntie Doot". She wasn't that much older than my grandma and NOBODY can remember what her real name was...or if Doot actually was her name.

...of course, her name isn't nearly as unfortunate as the fact that she was having an affair with her stepdad when she was about 16 and everyone knew it. Oh yes, happy family histories!

[Kali]

17. My dad had an Aunt Sook

Not sure how it was spelled - pronounced like look.

[Jara sang]

7. My great grand parents from Ireland

Neal "Black Neally" McCallion and Frances "Oul Fanny" McLaughlin

[SmileyBoy]

8. My great-grandfather on my father's side was named Teyfik.

He was the foreign advisor to one of the last Sultans of the Ottoman Empire. He was exiled to Syria after a disagreement with the Sultan, and in Syria, his wife gave birth to my grandfather (My father's father).

[Ediacara]

9. My grandfather's first name was Camillo

And he went by the nickname Comic (which was pronounced as "kuh-MICK"). In my mom's side of the family, there was a tradition in the old world for men to have the name Camillo -> Nick -> Anthony -> Camillo etc go down each generation. My cousin Anthony didn't like this, and didn't want to name his sons Camillo... Instead he chose Dominic and Remo.... Which aren't remotely as Italian :eyes:

[StellaBlue]

10. many

but a couple of highlights

My grandfather's middle name was Lorenzo (family is white - Anglo/Welsh/Scottish) :shrug:

Greatgreatgreatwhatever grandmother named Permelia

[progmom]

35. my grandfather's middle name was Lorenzo too

Dudley Lorenzo

[StellaBlue]

48. damn

not the same guy!

I was kinda secretly hoping that he had another family we never knew about... though I have to admit, I have too many cousins already. ha!

[Buddyblazon]

13. My Mothers middle name...

Wardlaw.

Apparently it's a family name.

My Grandfather's name was Orman...though I've heard that name before.

[LeftyMom]

15. I suppose my great grandparents Angus and Zilpha qualify? nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Only if Angus was the girrrrrrl.

[LeftyMom]

18. *giggle*

Uh, no.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Heheh. Did you ever see the episode of BlackAdder the III where he meets

his mad Scottish cousin, MacAdder? Turns out he has a girl named Angus. *l*

[Ava]

19. I'm a direct descendant of Charlemagne

that's a strange name, even if he was the King of Franks.

[Magrittes Pipe]

31. I thought Takeru Kobayashi was the King of Franks.

:shrug:

[CanuckAmok]

36. No, Oscar Meyer was the King of Franks.

n/t

[Xithras]

39. Charlemagne is a title, not a name.

His name was Charles. Charlemagne means "Charles The Great".

[Karenca]

21. My cousin Skipper's mom name was Chooch.

My mom was called Glory......my aunt is Hedwig......Uncle is Maximillion.

My husband's cousin is Skeeter......I have a neice named Sydney.

Grandfather is Moses, just like Gwyneth's baby.


My husband wanted to name our son Rocky, but I had already given the name to our chihuahau.

[last_texas_dem]

22. Pocahontas, China, and Narcissus

And the Pocahontas was a male (first name: Nelson) who had the Pocahontas as his middle name. I think that's an interesting pair to have for your first and middle names.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. That is an interesting combo, indeed.

[eyesroll]

24. I supposedly have a distant cousin named Hershel Barr.

Eddie Vedder was on my family tree for awhile -- his ex-wife, Beth Liebling of Hovercraft, is another distant cousin.

[LaraMN]

25. Petronilla, Merlyn (my grandmothers), Appolonia,

there's a bunch that are kinda' fun.

[Magrittes Pipe]

46. Well, you are a Minnesotan.

[LaraMN]

47. That pic reminds me- I met Prince's Dad once. He's old.

And of course by "met," I mean, "saw him walking across the Wal-Mart parking lot in Eden Prairie, MN."

[distantearlywarning]

26. My great-grandfather was named "Zeno"

Sounds like a Scientology name, huh?

[elehhhhna]

27. Derk Derkse, 1700's, Netherlands.

[Fenris]

28. Euphemon and Louison

[mzteris]

29. Athie Nisarah

Was the first and middle names of my dad's mom .......... (My mother had always told me the middle name was Narcissia. I wonder why?)

Oh yeah - she had a daughter named Clyde.

[scarlet_owl]

30. One of my relatives on my father's side was named Sleeper.

[trof]

32. Cousin Gross. Grandpa Irby.

[MissMillie]

33. Turns out that our family name, when my ancesters came over from

England, was

Death.

[Jokerman]

34. Same boring old names over and over again.

John, Jacob, Henry, Lloyd, Lawrence.

EVERY male in my dad's family for ten generations has had some combination of these five names.

zzzzzzzzzzz

[Rowdyboy]

37. Remillicent Powell was my gg grandmother......

[Search Party]

38. Ima Jewel n/t

[Gormy Cuss]

40. Here's a handful from 17th-19th century Maine

females: Achsah, Bianza, Leida, Vesta
males:Unite, Wainsbury,Easty

(my family tree includes a lot of the others colonial names already mentioned too, like Mehitable)

[kwassa]

42. Zadok

[malta blue]

43. Porfirio

Like Rubirosa the socialite...

[Ivan Sputnik]

44. One of my ancestors was named "Ethel"

and it was a man. Apparently, before the 20th century, this could be a male name.

[The Flaming Red Head]

45. let's see the Loves

Willie C Love, Anita Love, Helen Love, Amanda Love and on and on

[suzbaby]

49. Argil

That's my father's name. I've never met another living soul with that name and I think I never will.

[LeftyMom]

50. Oh, I almost forgot Okie.

What the hell kind of first name is Okie? Okie, by the way, was not an Okie, he was a Kentucky coal miner.

[Xipe Totec]

51. Maria del Rayo (Mary of the Lightning Bolt)

Kid you not.

Named after the church where she was baptized, "Our Lady, Mary of the Lightning Bolt".

[ikojo]

52. My oldest sister's first name is EULA...she will be 50

this October. She was named after my dad's mother. I feel for her. She goes by her middle name and most people don't even know it's not her first name.

[alarimer]

53. My grandfather's first name was Emerson

I don't know the origin of that. My great-grandfather was Hilmer Larson.

[EstimatedProphet]

54. Fanchion