Best names that you have come across ?

[JLB]

Up until now my favourite names were given to a set of twins called Bank and Holiday , but this lady has now gone to the top of my list.
1766 Suffolk

Mr John Godbold
married
Miss Delariviere Discipline

Beats all my Anns and Mary Smiths any day!

[Karamazov]

What a brilliant name! I’ve often wished my ancestors had thrown in the odd Beyoncé or Chardonnay just as a change from the repeated Marys, Anns and Sarahs. Doubt it would have gone down well in an Irish townland, though...

I can’t remember the name for the theory now, but there is a school of thought - oh, it’s suddenly popped into my head - nominative determinism - that you gravitate towards professions that fit your name. Wonder if your Ms Discipline was a dominatrix...

Christine

[Lin Fisher]

My favourite named ancestor is German Waterfall.

Another one is Ethilindia Augusta Whiles.

[JLB]

Sadly Lin she isn't one of my ancestors but I wish she were.

[Jill on the A272]

I've mentioned them before, I have Quick Nutter, brothers Steeprock & Cicero Bannister in my tree, and my OH has Hopestill Roots.

[JLB]

You lucky people
The best I can muster is a male Lazarus and a femail Faintnot

[Anne in Carlisle]

Vitruvius Partridge Wyatt. The whole family went in for fanciful names but his was the best. He was a vicar so crops up in newspapers quite often.
Anne

[PhotoFamily]

Vitruvius Partridge Wyatt. The whole family went in for fanciful names but his was the best. He was a vicar so crops up in newspapers quite often.
Anne

Makes it easier to locate the articles!

A lot of old biblical names in some lines. And the first time I ran into Thankful I was a little startled. And not a blood relative, but I ran into a Philadelphia. To me that's a city, and smacks of Quakers. I do have a Fidelia/Phidelia.

But there's also the names that have no family connection but they name a child with it. Gifford. Why??

[herky]

I had a relative with a middle name that didn't feature in the family at all. Later, on another marriage, I found the middle name was that of the church minister. Perhaps the Gifford name comes from a minister/doctor/teacher or someone in the area who was respected.

[GallowayLass]

The best I can come up with is River Jordan and these very grand sounding ones - James Joseph Knowles Nightingale Norris; William Henry Horace Furse Murray; Catherine Tennant Winwick Manson Goodfellow; Barrington Ernest Seaton Fellowes.

[wulliam]

I have a Christmas Bush!

[pinefamily]

A couple of Ferdinando's, Hector, Zipporah, Ambrose, Maximilian (in a non German family), and quite a few Sven's and Olof's in my Swedish line.

[kylejustin]

"thoroughgood upwood"

on the french side: poncelet, poncette, hyppolyte, leonidas, zulana, arice, delie, lodoiska.

german side: "traugott" and "gottlieb".