Well, the announcement of the coronation of Isabella on Friday usurped our regular Mother’s Day blog spot, but we hope you’re still feeling enough of an afterglow to enjoy revisiting this gathering of some of the more interesting names of moms of distinguished sons and daughters. Turns out that a surprising number of past (and a few present) notables have had mothers with noteworthy names and here are some prominent examples:
ABIAH — Benjamin Franklin
ADELINE —Clark Gable
ALBERTA — Martin Luther King
AMALIA — Sigmund Freud
ARETHA — Ray Charles
AURELIA — Arnold Schwarzenegger
AUGUSTA — Arthur Miller
AVIS — Bob Hope
BEATRICE — Bob Dylan
BRYNA — Kirk Douglas
CASSANDRA — Jane Austen
CECILIA — Harry Houdini
CHRISTIANA — George Eliot
DAISY — Duke Ellington
DESIREE — Lucille Ball
DOLLY — Frank Sinatra
EDWINA — Tennessee Williams
ELNORA — Gene Autry
EUPHAMIA — Sean Connery
EVA — Mick Jagger
EVANGELIA — Maria Callas
EVANGELINE — Charles Lindbergh
FELIPA — Salvador Dali
FLORA — Walt Disney
FRANCESCA — Michelangelo
GABRIELLE — Jack Kerouac
GLADYS — Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley
JULIA — Andy Warhol, John Lennon
KUTILDA — Tiger Woods
LETIZIA — Napoleon Buonaparte
LUCINDA — George Bernard Shaw
LUCRETIA — Edith Wharton
MARICHEN — Henrik Ibsen
MATILDE — Frida Kahlo
MAUD — Humphrey Bogart
MINNIE — The Marx Brothers
NANCY — Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison
NEELTJE — Rembrandt van Rijn
NIKOLLE — Mother Teresa
ODESSA — Muhammad Ali
OLIMPIA — Henri Matisse
PAULINE — Albert Einstein
ROMILDA — Sophia Loren
ROSA — George Gershwin
STANLEY — Barack Obama (also her father’s name)
STELLA — Jackson Pollock
VERNITA — Oprah Winfrey
Does your mom have an unusual or interesting name?
HOPE YOU HAD A HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, EVERYONE !!