Mother’s Day Names: Noteworthy names of notables’ moms

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 !!