I have been asked about my daughters unusual name nearly every day. Most recently, my neighbor Chris asked where it came from. I gave the standard short version ,"It was my great grandmothers name." But I will use this venue to further expand on the origin and meaning of her name.
I have two older sons and desperately wanted a girl. My oldest should thank the stars above he was born male (I had the delusion I would name a daughter Heaven Leigh.... way too much VC Andrews in my teenage years). I wanted to name this much desired daughter after my great grandmother. I was fortunate enough to have her in my life until I was 23 years old. I miss her.
When deliberating middle names (because I just couldn't use the Agnes that was Granma's middle name), Elizabeth was my first choice. My grandmother (Original Aurelia's daughter) likes to think I named her Elizabeth after Original Aurelia's sister. Libby was the same age as my Granma Frances and they were more like sisters. The name is actually the middle name of my best friend from childhood (Laura).
Now the meaning of her names combined is the equivalent of "Golden Oath to God". Not intended, but great nonetheless.
Aurelia is also the name of Julius Caesar's mother, a city in Iowa, a genus of jellyfish, a synonym for chrysalis, a hymn by Samuel Sebastion Wesley, a crater on Venus, a hypothetical Earth-sized planet orbiting a red dwarf star, a ship in the US Navy, the first Portugese gay dictionary (circa 2006), an 1855 book by Gerard Nerval, and a northwestward road in Rome.
I have no further comment.
Heather
1 comments:
I LOVE the picture of Aurelia! She's adorable. And you and I, you realize, are trendsetters since we both named our daughters after our grandmothers. You watch -- the old fashioned names are going to come back in style, and we will be hip. Hip, I tell you!
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