The Beauty of Names

King Arthur's Knights Seeing a Vision of the Holy Grail (King Caradoc is in blue) Origin: Welsh Gender: Male Meaning: "Love" Pronunciation: ka-RA-dock Other Forms: Caradog, Caratacos, Caratacus This strong Welsh name has a surprisingly soft meaning - it comes from the Celtic car , meaning "love" and shares this root with the girl's name Carys. In mythology (some believe he was real, or at least a amalgamation of few a historical figures) King Caradoc Freichfras, also known as Caradoc Strongman, lived during the 5th- or 6th-century and was a knight of the Round Table. He was said to be a King of Gwent, a medieval Welsh kingdom that laid between the rivers Wye and Usk, and existed from the end of Roman rule until the Normans invaded in the 11th-century.  In the Welsh Triads, medieval scripts that have preserved much of Welsh myth and history, he is said to be Arthur's chief elder at Celliwig in Cornwall. Cellwig is one of the earliest named locations for A...

Sylvia Storey, Lady Poulett , was born Sylvia Lillian Storey to William Frederick Clayton Storey and Lilian Margaret Thorley Holmes . Like her parents, Sylvia was an actress and also a dancer and Gaiety Girl. She married William Poulett, 7th Earl of Poulett . She had two children with him: George Amias Fitzwarrine Poulett, " George Poulett, 8th Earl of Poulett " Bridget Elizabeth Felicia Henrietta Augusta Poulett, " Lady Bridget Poulett " She also had a child with Major Percy Howard Hansen : Phoebe Amie Sybil Poulett, " Lady Phoebe Poulett "

Origin: Slavic Gender: Female Meaning: "Pearl" Pronunciation: BIH-ser-uh, BEE-ser-uh Other Forms: Biserka I've been really into Slavic names lately, and this lovely name, used most commonly in Bulgaria, Macedonia, is no exception!  Bisera comes from the South Slavic word biser , meaning "pearl". Pearls are the lustrous object produced within the soft tissue of shelled mollusks, and like their shell is made up of calcium carbonate. While most pearls today are cultured, also known as farmed, a naturally formed pearl is still considered the best quality. Pearl hunting can be traced all the way back to 543 BC, when the only way to gather them was to use free divers who would have to swim to a depth of more than 100 ft on a single breath. Indians harvested freshwater pearls from the lakes and rivers in Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The beautiful pearls produced in the waters around the British Isles were one of the big attractions for Julius Caeser. I found two f...

Blanchette and John Blanchette Rockefeller was born Blanchette Ferry Hooker to Elon Huntington Hooker and Blanche Ferry . Blanchette was an American art sponsor and philanthropist. She married John D. Rockefeller III . Their children were: Jay Davison Rockefeller, " Jay Rockefeller IV " Hope Aldrich Rockefeller Sandra Ferry Rockefeller Alida Ferry Rockefeller

Cherry and Ed Ed Sheeran and his wife, Cherry Seaborn, just welcomed their first child, a little girl! Her name is Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran. Many believe the name is inspired by Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" books, as Ed is a fan of them.