What's in a name?

[Tuckervill]

Okay, another extremely unusual name....why all the double letters and FIVE names, I dunno.

Alleeasaya Saphoria Rose Michelle Girard.

The last name of the mother is Otteringer, different from the dad. I don't get why they couldn't fit Otteringer in there somewhere too. I mean, come on!
:P
Karen

[Mr. Bloom]

Okay, another extremely unusual name....why all the double letters and FIVE names, I dunno.

Alleeasaya Saphoria Rose Michelle Girard.

The last name of the mother is Otteringer, different from the dad. I don't get why they couldn't fit Otteringer in there somewhere too. I mean, come on!
:P
Karen

Could she be NW Arkansas royalty???

She's almost the same as the heir to the throne:

His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Great Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Honorary Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, Chief Grand Commander of the Order of Logohu, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty

Last I recalled, his daddy's last name is Mountbatten and his mommy's last name is Windsor. Hmmm...didn't see those names in there...

To me, he's simply Chuck...

I can see where the royals are starting to take a more populist bias in their lives...

[bmccasland]

Umm Mr. Silver...
HRH Chuck's name is the Prince Charles Philip Athur George, the rest are titles and honors. Makes me wonder what Queen Mum called him when she was mad at him?

The Brit royal names harken back to when people didn't have *last* names or family names. Ever looked into the names in Iceland or Greenland? Leif Erikson's child Sven would be Sven Leifson. At least you'd know who the kid's father was. And girls were *dottir*, so Leif's girl-child would be Helga Leifsdottir. I'm not sure what happens to names when a child matures and marries. Doe she take her husband's name?

[lph]

The Brit royal names harken back to when people didn't have *last* names or family names. Ever looked into the names in Iceland or Greenland? Leif Erikson's child Sven would be Sven Leifson. At least you'd know who the kid's father was. And girls were *dottir*, so Leif's girl-child would be Helga Leifsdottir. I'm not sure what happens to names when a child matures and marries. Doe she take her husband's name?

Nope. They stay "-dottir" and "-sson", so married couples do not share names. At least not according to the traditional way of naming, they might have started doing so now.

"-dottir" and "-sson" are allowed as alternative last names in Norway too, but not very common. I like them

Last names used to be much more flexible. My grandmother's father (I think) changed his last name when he moved to a new town and opened a store, from a very common last name to the name of the property he bought. That was quite usual at the time. My grandfather's fathers name was from the place he grew up. Only a few generations back place names, "son of"-names and artisan names were pretty much all you had of last names, and they weren't necessarily inherited.

Which does put a new perspective on the whole "keeping your name" debate about women (or men) changing their names at marriage, and family members having the same last name or not.

[Zen]

I have a new found appreciation for Smith and Jones.

[Mr. Bloom]

I have a new found appreciation for Smith and Jones.

Trust me, Silver wishes she had found a Smith or Jones..

But, I am very glad to know Norse Naming Protocol

[tulip]

My mother tells me of a long-gone relative named (first-middle) Minnesota Iowa, and her sister named Georgia Virginia.

My dad had an aunt named Olive Iola.

I have a name that always gets comments. It's a double name (I'm happy to be from the south and I love double names), but it's still unusual. It's Juliellen. Like Maryellen, but with a Julie. It always makes people stumble at first.