My Lydia Rose
Some ladies at work had me reminiscing about my departed daughter, Lydia Rose. So at home I was poking through my computer and kept coming up with files regarding her while looking for other things. Here's information I gathered about her name a year or so before she passed away:
Lydia
Lydia, a 3-syllable girl's name of Greek origin, means: A cultured woman from Lydia. Lydia's ethnic backgrounds include * German . It's religious association is biblical (see * Ac 16:14). It has religious backgrounds in * Biblical .
Nicknames for Lydia are * Liddy
Other names associated with Lydia are * Lidia * Lydie
Groucho Marx used to sing a song called "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady," which these days tends to make it sound more hip than it was meant to sound then. A very early place-name, Lydia was an area of Asia Minor whose inhabitants are credited with the invention of coinage and great musical talent. Although mentioned as a first name in the New Testament (Lydia was the first European convert of St. Paul), it did not really emerge as a Christian name until the seventeenth century, gaining notoriety through the character Lydia Languish in Sheridan?s 1775 play, The Rivals, and the youngest of the Bennet girls in Pride and Prejudice. Today, Lydia is quietly fashionable with an offbeat sort of appeal, a kindred spirit to names like Natalie, Olivia, Madeleine, Louisa. Heiress and ex-fugitive Patty Hearst used it for one of her daughters, as did the fictional Mrs. Doubtfire. And don't forget erstwhile New Wave singer Lydia Lunch.
This name is in the following categories:
- Century Names
- Celebrity: Biblical Names
- Brit Lit
- Fitting In/Standing Out
- Greek Names
- Colonial Period and Eighteenth Century
Rose, a 1-syllable girl's name of Greek/Latin origin, means: Of Mary; a rose; love. Rose's ethnic backgrounds include * Irish * French . Entertainers with this name include * Rose Marie (Television) . Rose is also a name in the category of * Flowers . It has religious backgrounds in * Saints .
Nicknames for Rose are * Rhody * Rhollia * Rosalee * Rosel * Rosena * Rosene * Rosie * Rozalia * Rozalie * Roze * Rozele * Rozelle * Rozina
Other names associated with Rose are * Zita * Rasia * Rhoda * Rois * Rosa * Rosaleen * Rosalia * Rosalie * Rosaline * Rosella * Roselle * Rosetta * Rosina * Rosita * Rosy
Variations: RAIZEL, ROSA, ROSALBA, ROSALIA, ROSALIE, ROSANNA, ROSEANNE, ROSELLE, ROSELLEN, ROSETTA, ROSIE, ROSITA, SUEROSE. After five centuries of being associated with the fragrant flower, Rose has suddenly become an overnight success ? as a middle name. Parents (such as Michelle Pfeiffer, who named her daughter Claudia Rose; Jeff Bridges, who has a Hayley Rose; Jon Bon Jovi with his Stephanie Rose; Rickie Lee Jones with Charlotte Rose, and Olivia Newton-John with Chloe Rose) across the country are finding this the perfect connective between first and last names, with much more color and charm than old standbys like Lynn, SUE, and Ann. It was popular as a first name all through the nineteenth century, as reflected in the dozens of songs it inspired ? "Honeysuckle Rose," "Rose of Washington Square," "Second Hand Rose," "My Wild Irish Rose," "Rambling Rose" et al., and it has been well used in other languages too ? RAIZEL in Yiddish, ROSA in Spanish and Italian, and is found in countless combination and pet forms, including ROSALIA, ROSALIE, ROSALBA, ROSANNA, ROSELLE, ROSELLEN, ROSETTA, ROSITA, and, in a class by itself for obvious reasons, ROSEANNE. And some cool, pioneering parents, particularly Brits, are calling their kids ROSIE, a name currently on movie marquees followed by O?Donnell and Perez.
This name is in the following categories:
- Century Names
- Names in Bloom
- No-Nonsense Names
- Fitting In/Standing Out
- Yuppie Names
- Celebrity: Nature Names
- Royal Names
- No-Frills Names
