http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-28803 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:03:40 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-28803 [...] lack her modern, unisex sound, but this name owes her origins to medieval staples like Matilda and Maude.   Another option is Allison – but she feels very twentieth [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-26245 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:18:26 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-26245 [...] into the Wayback Machine: in 2008, I wrote about Carys, Guy, and Matilda.  In 2009, it was Stellan and Dava.  And last year, Truman and Spencer were [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-26086 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:03:23 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-26086 [...] Augusta Matilda was the eldest daughter of English King George III and Queen Charlotte.  The princess later [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-23179 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:06:25 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-23179 [...] Today’s choice was worn by an obscure eleventh century saint, but would sound right at home on the playground with Isabella and Matilda. [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-22876 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:16:53 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-22876 [...] youngest daughter is Matilda Winifred Jane, nicknamed Tilly. My older children are Genevieve “Neve“, Oliver [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-21334 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:57:59 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-21334 [...] I’ll never forget the time a mom told me her daughters’ names – Stella and Matilda – were “old family names.”  Maybe they were, but they’re also about as [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-20759 Tue, 10 May 2011 07:05:22 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-20759 [...] a popular name for seafaring vessels in the era, and a bronze sculpture in Perth, Australia’s Matilda Bay answers to the name, in honor of Eliza Darling, the wife of an early Governor of New South [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-20657 Sat, 07 May 2011 16:12:54 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-20657 [...] new universe of first names opened up to me! Mostly just names ending in a: Tabitha, Cora, Nora, Matilda, Alaia, Isla, Cambria, Leyna, Nona, Clara, it was mind-boggling. It was also mind boggling to my [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-17656 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:03:08 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-17656 [...] too soon to tell, but if you’re crestfallen to discover that Ramona is the new Matilda, maybe Beulah is one to [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/07/name-of-the-day-matilda/#comment-17404 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:20:10 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=976#comment-17404 [...] over the less common Lars, there are some who go for the unusual choice.  For Real spotted Peaches Matilda, Zoe Gabriella Scarlet Fire, and Mingus Patrick in Ireland and girls called Lynlee and Lynnex in [...]

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