I Found A 120 Year Old Baby Name Book - let's read it! SUPER RARE BABY NAMES Part 1! SJ STRUM
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2024
- Best find ever at the charity shop this week! The names are so special and I fell in love with the book a bit too much ':-)
Let me know what names you think you'd list from here? #babynames #babynameconsultant
Stunning !!! Are you kidding me !! this is the coolest thrift shop find of all times!!
I know!!! I’m so excited someone is as happy as me about it 😂🥰
This is magic! Can’t WAIT for part 2!! Please keep sharing Helen’s treasures … and yours. So special and fun!
Ah I just loved the book so much! She feels like a kindred spirit! X
A 120 yo past life?!? So sweet to know people have loved compiling name lists for a long time :).
So lovely! I wonder how many baby’s were named from this book!
This is exactly what I was thinking
Makes you wonder how many treasures are hidden in smaller shops. This book could've well been at a museum!
So true - I wonder if there's a name museum? Maybe that's the graveyard!!!
You were destined to find that book! It was meant for you!
Wow! It's always a joy hearing names I've never heard before. I'm so glad you of all people found that book!
It was such a find! xxx
That book is a treasure as are you! Please, Please, Please let me know when you do part II if there is a listing for Spicey! I've been trying to find the origin of my 2nd great-grandmother for years. I thought the name was an anomaly but the name wasn't unheard of in her time and place. Also, my 3rd great-grandfather was Ingram Spence. Thanks for sharing your find!
I absolutely love the old names and finding out their meanings. I'm an old lady, and collecting names has been a hobby of mine since I was around 9 or 10 years old. Discovering your site has been like discovering a kindred spirit! God bless you, S.J.
Aw you too! I’d love to hear your name list 🩷
This is one of my favourite videos you've made in a little while because you can just feel your excitement. It's so beautiful to see you like this again
Congratulations on the great find of the ANTIQUE Baby Name Book.
The “AE” is probably pronounced like the A in cat. Æ was a letter in Old English (called aesc, meaning ash, based on the Anglo-Saxon runes), so some old fashioned words/names retained that spelling even though in 1900, “Æ” wasn’t a part of the English alphabet anymore (it is still used in modern Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic & Faroese).
Absolutely loved this video and would love to see a part 2!
Oh my goodness this is amazing. Part 2 yes please.
Yes, yes, yes!! This list is everything. This book is everything. I am so excited! ❤
Love all of this!!!! The super cool names plus the incredible amount of fun you are having going through the book. It really comes across.
Awesome find! Looking forward to part two!! 🎉
I LOVED this video! Please make more like this. Excited for part two!
I would 100% love to hear every name in this book! Absolutely awesome find!! ❤
I can't wait for part too. Hope you are well.
I love this. What a beautiful little treasure.
I’ve loved this video! Can’t wait for part 2!
Best charity shop find ever! I would’ve definitely picked it up too. Adelheid is lovely!
I loved this video. Thank you for sharing your find with us.
Fascinating 🤗❤️
So cool!!!❤ love this SO much!!!😀
This was amazing! I was chuckling the whole way through! So fun!
That little book is like a treasure trove for names! Such pretty ones
When my grandmother was cleaning out her house, I found an old booklet (couldn't convince her to keep it, I think it was like a guidance book for marriage my grandpa kept from his sisters/parents) with a list of vintage german names and Dankwart was one of them! I had a laugh about it, because sometimes people tending to gas stations are called Tankwart in German. Her neighbour's name was Volker, too (the V is pronounced like an F) 😅 Other interesting names: She also had an uncle Dionysius who went by Diony; and knew an Aloysius who went by Alvis. 😊
Ermentrude is a character in The Magic Roundabout. At least it was in the original series, I've not seen the new version 😂
She's in the film😂
And Ermengarde is a character in “A Little Princess.” 🥰
How cool is that! I love that you were giving real time reactions.
Though I am not generally a vintage name fan (more hipster!) I absolutly love any and all your of your vids anyway, and have to say there are actually some names I love here! :) looking forward to pt 2! It's such a cool idea for a vid and such a fab charity shop find! I'll keep a look out for you - love a charity shop! xx
Great video SJ.....Abe books sell Helena Swan name books. TFS
How incredible! Loved every single minute of this video!
Wow what a great find. I love this - names are so fascinating to me.
I think Algernon is pronounced with a soft g so al-jer-non. Alatea I would pronounce as ah-lah-tee-ah- I think it is the name of someone in a Greek myth.
Ah thank you for adding this x
Eagerly awaiting part 2! 😍😍
I just loved Dowsebelle! so adorable ❤
Can’t wait for part 2! Looking for a boy name starting with J right now and am so excited to hear more!
Oh I can't wait for part 2 🥰🥰🥰🥰
What an absolutely amazing find !! So fascinating. The name that was memorable for me is Arienwen.
You are so much fun, SJ!
Such a cool find! Love you
Im looking forward to part 2 this was so fun🤭
Oh my goodness, I love this!
I've heard of "Aletheia" which stands for truth, indeed. The ending in "theia" makes me think of "theos" which is "god" in ancient greek. Here's what wikipedia says about it "Aletheia is variously translated as "unconcealedness", "disclosure", "revealing", or "unclosedness". The literal meaning of the word ἀ-λήθεια is "the state of not being hidden; the state of being evident."". Incredible to see that the woman who wrote this book maybe invented Alatea based on the word Alatheia !! SO cool. I might just have fallen in love with that name.
Amazing!! I love the name too and so special to find it in this old book x
“Hannibal - what’s going on in Cornwall? 😂”
Correction, it is Galatea I was thinking of, she was a statue that was crafted by Pygmalion and he fell in love with his work, then the gods made her come to life
One former classmate was Galatea, nickname Gala. Another one was called Gwendolyn.
Oh my goodness I can't wait for part two! This is SOO my name vibe!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ I'm searching for the perfect little boys name that is vintage, rare-ish but simple to say/spell- so hard! 😂 Heard a few good ones already from this but am very excited to hear some more 😍 x
SJ this might be my favorite video, it was equal parts delightful and funny! I do think you've found a bosom friend across time!
Love these names!
❤ I have been looking for this video on TH-cam for 5 years.
This is the first time I've ever heard Algernon said with a hard G, usually I hear it with a soft G. Either way, I've always really liked that name and it's fun to see it on a list, even if it's a very, very, *very* vintage list.
Calisto/Callisto is another long time favorite. Actually there's a lot of these that I've had on my list; I think this author and I would have gotten along swimmingly. ✨️
What an incredible find ❤
What an incredible find! I’d love to know how Helena did her research
My parents own a campsite and we have a lovely Arienwen stay with her family every year. This will be their 4th or 5th year. Absolutely amazing book. I’m not having children but some great cat names here 😹
Wow - it's so so pretty!!! I did a whole gilded name list of silver and gold names I haven't filmed it yet but had the name on there too!Q.
Love this video. I've written down Eldrid. What a beautiful name!
Just went antiquing for my birthday a few days ago and I would have loved to have found something like this! My favorite antique store that has the coolest books was closed, on the day I went, so I'm probably going there on Saturday. Hopefully I'll find something as cool as this! I LOVE vintage names! Hannyball had me rolling - literally, I was watching this while sitting on the floor. 😂
Elsabyn! I love it!
My grandmother always says she had a book and she used it for all of her babies, it so sweet to think of her going through the pages every time.
I love love Aspasia , Arianwen, Barnaby, Beata , Calista, Caradoc, Constance and Darcy and Darby. I also love Evangeline, Evelyn, Frederick and Geneva, Gwendoline, but I much prefer the spelling Gwendolen. What a lovely and amazing find.
Dying for part 2!!
This is amazing
im obsessed with you singing “I think I like this little book” at the end 😭😭😭🩷🫶🏻
This was so sweet!! I found a 100 yr old baby book that a mother kept track of during her babies first yr, such a great find!🤍👏🏻
How special to see all the names she liked!
I can't wait for part 2. Our first grandbaby was born last August and my son and dil are already pregnant with a second. Our first was a girl and this second is a boy. Loving sharing some of these names with them as they want something vintage and sweet for this precious little boy on the way.
Having a bit of a difficult day and this made me so happy to watch! Love love love. Also: Gwendolyn is lovely! Just have to be very brave to use it!
i love esias and harty so much. i see harty as a great nickname for harriet or a mixture between harry and arthur for boys. back then without google, helena would have had to go to a library to see baby name list folders or looked up the census. i wonder if you were harriet in a previous life.
I almost feel like I was 😂🥰🥰 I can see her in the library loving writing her book x
@@SJ_Strum its crazy to think 120 years later, if she'd known that it would appear online to a global audience in the form of the internet which she couldn't have imagined existing. its so cool
Caligula comes from Roman emperor Gaius Julius Cesar Germanicum, renamed Caligula because he used to wear the "calige", the typical Roman sandals.
Clotilde and Adelaide are both old fashioned italian names, and Elisavetta comes from Elisabetta, which Is the italian version of Elizabeth, such as Ginevra Is italian for Guinever.
Galahad means milky way because "Galaktos" means milk in greek
I think Helena was deep into european classical studies 😅
I'm a history nerd so I love this kind of content! 🎉
Me too!! xx
Great find! I think, Hubbard, was Robert Redford's character in the film A Star Is Born with Barbra Streisand
I think you mean Hubble in The Way We Were.
I think there's an Ebinrude in Disney's The Rescuers but I've definitely not heard Ermentrude. LOVE this series!
Evinrude! Love it! ❤
Ermintrude was a cow in 'The magic Roundabout'
Aethlebrite...lovely i love Arienwen!
Aren't they lush names!
@@SJ_Strum absolutely. I am enjoying this so much. I will scour the US for this book. Your commentary on the names is delightful!
This is so cool!❤ Also I grew up with a woman called Helen Swan! And quite a few Guys!
My grandma was Adelheid and we gave our daughter the middle name Adelia as a tribute 💕
"Sounds quite better it do" lmao I listened to that four times I'll have you know
How fascinating, the names are even older than the “classic” old fashioned names! 😊
I desperately need this book hahaha!!
Hero and Charity/Cherry are both character names in Georgette Heyer books! 🥰 love it!
I wonder if she used census records to come up with names? Finding the meanings would be harder, probably would need to go to a library.
Arienwen is one of my favorites! I spell it Arianwyn but I think the -wen ending is the traditional feminine variation
Im surprised to see Aurora I tend to think of it as quite modern! Darcy & Darby as well.
Callista is lovely! I also like Caradoc, its very handsome and strong.
Elisavetta and Elsabyn are so pretty variations, they're very unique. Everard is very nice, its similar to Evander which has gained some traction.
I love Gwendolyn its in my top names list.
I got an old baby name book from the library as a child and I don't remember the name of the author. I remember there was a female name, Birdesmond, which was Anglo Saxon.
Has anyone read the book Flowers for Algernon? Gut-wrenchingly sad, but the mouse that the story revolves around is named Algernon. Never knew it meant Whiskered!
Aww how cute - they found the perfect name! x
I’m an 8th grade English teacher. I read Flowers for Algernon with my students every year. ❤️
So fun! What do you think about Maximus?
We had a little Maximus born in the community this week or last!! Such a cool name! x
@@SJ_Strum thanks for replying xx
You ok SJ? So silent. We miss you and hope you are well.
My name is Aifric. It is the modernised spelling of the old Irish Celtic name Affraic which does in fact mean "pleasant" and also sometimes "noble" according to some sources. It dates from the 6th century here in Ireland making it steeped in history and culture. Most importantly it has no connection or inspiration in any way with the continent of Africa. It is still very unusual here in Ireland and receives a lot of compliments.
Talked with a mama last week who was planning to use Adleheid! Like Adelaide and where Heidi comes from! Fun fact: Elke is also derived from this
my brothers name is Kado, like Cato. He always gets compliments lol
Wow it’s such a great name 😊
Kato/Cato is popular in Norway
So many of these are from literature! I *believe* Dancwort was a side character in the Nibelugenlied.
I think Cymbeline is from Shakespeare??
I can't find part 2. What is the is title called for part 2?💕
I new a boy called Gussie! I had forgot all about him back in the 80s I would spend the 6 week school holidays in Birmingham with my aunt and uncle he was a brummy and his mum would call him from the back of her garden over the fields where all the kids would play😌 that’s brought back so many memories for me x Ruby
PART TWO!!!!!
Gwendoline, was a name we chose for our first born daughter, due to the family grousing so we cut that and went with Elizabeth.. I still like it.
Ermantrude is the cow from magic roundabout ❤
Ingram is a name on my name list but I also love Ingrid and they are too close so I can't decide which to use.
You should write a little book! Please!
I'd love to :-).
Gosh had to pause immediately because Elsabyn is gorgeous. My daughter is Elsie and I didn’t like any full names for it and we finally landed on Giselle, nickname Elsie but gosh Elsabyn would have been a contender! 🌻
You’re voice is so pretty you could literally say diarrhea was a good baby name and I’d be like “yeah, she’s right that is pretty” 😂
I love the name Manon but think maybe wouldn't work in the UK - does anyone have any similar suggestions?
Cato is the name of the houseman of Inspector Clouseau who attacks him whenever Clouseau comes home. Their battles are hilarious.
We recently found out one of our ancestors was called Priesthood! And his granddaughter had the middle name Priest as a way of carrying on his name. Wild!
I love Gwendoline, and I had a little white finch with a broken wing and named her Gwendoline
My great grandmothers name is Clotilde❤️ sort of the same as Clotildis.