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:
AURELIA — Arnold Schwarzenegger
EVANGELINE — Charles Lindbergh
GLADYS — Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley
JULIA — Andy Warhol, John Lennon
KUTILDA — Tiger Woods
NANCY — Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison
NEELTJE — Rembrandt van Rijn
NIKOLLE — Mother Teresa
STANLEY — Barack Obama (also her father’s name)
Does your mom have an unusual or interesting name?
Linda Rosenkrantz
Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.