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Mother’s Day Names: Noteworthy names of notables’ moms
Mother’s Day Names: Noteworthy names of notables’ moms
Nov 21, 2024 1:42 PM

  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 !!

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