We have English Name
Jun. 25th, 2008 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamadebOur beautiful (I've seen pictures) new niece now has an English name:
Winifred Celia. Which is just lovely - uncommon but not in a "Baby's named a Bad, Bad Thing" sort of way - just a pretty old-fashioned name. And it passes the Supreme Court test, too.
"Chief Justice Winifred Celia Baker" :)
She's named for two very different remarkable women.
Hebrew name TBA (Aunt Win wasn't Jewish and didn't have a Hebrew name, so they have to figure that one out.)
Winifred Celia. Which is just lovely - uncommon but not in a "Baby's named a Bad, Bad Thing" sort of way - just a pretty old-fashioned name. And it passes the Supreme Court test, too.
"Chief Justice Winifred Celia Baker" :)
She's named for two very different remarkable women.
Hebrew name TBA (Aunt Win wasn't Jewish and didn't have a Hebrew name, so they have to figure that one out.)
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Date: 2008-06-25 05:39 pm (UTC)Aunt Win was married to Uncle Dick, who passed away himself a few years ago.
Both were academics, and they are the reason that my brother-in-law chose to be a college professor himself. I only got to meet Win near the end of her life, after a medication she needed to stay alive gave her a long series of small strokes. This means I only met a shadow of whom she had been, but that shadow was amazing. She died a month after my wedding.
She'd been a history of science professor, specializing in Galileo.