http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-29234 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:03:18 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-29234 [...] to consider: Artie was a Top 1000 choice from the 1880s into the 1930s.  A feminine form of Arthur, or an adaptation of the frilly and foreign Artemisia?  At least some of the census records [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-29076 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:03:42 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-29076 [...] Arthur – After years of being relegated to the grandpa set, Arthur has reclaimed his regal roots.  First Courtney Cox’s character on Cougar Town mentioned it as the name she had in mind for a possible son.  Then Selma Blair chose it for her newborn son in 2011.  While the name’s meaning is debated, one of the more popular theories is that Arthur comes from the Celtic artos – bear.  Harry Potter – er, I meant Daniel Radcliffe – plays a young lawyer named Arthur in the upcoming thriller The Woman in Black. [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-27868 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:06:09 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-27868 [...] takes us into the modern era.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is remembered as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, another enduring [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-27267 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:45:43 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-27267 We named our son Arthur in 2008 and have been loving it ever since. It was a combo of a family name (which my husband loves) and something historical (for me:). My son and I also lived in France for a year, where everyone fell in love with it too – international bonus! It was also more popular over there – he even shared the name with another baby in his crèche. It was the same spelling but different pronunciation (ar-tyr). His aunts call him Art or Artie. Now that we’re back in the US and he’s in preschool, the name still sounds great and I think it’ll wear well for life.

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-26777 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:02:40 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-26777 [...] and Herbert – better known as Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo.  Brother Adolph became Arthur possibly because of anti-German sentiment during the first world war era, or maybe because he just [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-25787 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:02:50 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-25787 [...] most common explanation for Artis is that he’s simply a variant of the regal Arthur.  This tracks – Arthur ranked in the US Top Twenty from the late nineteenth century, into [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-25043 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:04:09 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-25043 [...] fire, there’s also Pendragon, sometimes used as a surname or epithet for the legendary King Arthur.  Depending on the usage, it could mean “son of the dragon” or “dragon’s [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-24353 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:03:21 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-24353 [...] might’ve been early twentieth century name nerds – their other kids were called Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn, and [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-24204 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:05:01 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-24204 [...] quite trace is Miss Christian Elspeth Mallock.  Her portrait is above; it was painted by Edward Arthur Walton, the noted Scottish portrait and landscape painter, active in the late 1800s and early part [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/04/name-of-the-day-arthur/#comment-22902 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:46:31 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-22902 [...] Blair welcomed a son called Arthur Saint, and name nerds everywhere swooned.  Still no backstory on Saint, [...]

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