My mom picked the spelling. She found it in a baby book. Now that I am older I am liking my name more. It’s not as common compared to when I was in high school and we had three Chelsea’s. I don’t come across many people in my adult life with the same name as me....
The name Allison is easy to pronounce. Break it down into three syllables in English: “AL-ih-sun.” The pronunciation of Allison rarely changes. The emphasis of Allison falls on the first syllable. In American English, the pronunciation is [al-uh-suhn]. In British English, it’s almost ...
While Scottish names may relate to both Ireland via their individual versions of the Gaelic language and to England via their shared heritage in the United Kingdom. The most popular Scottish names today evidence that blend, with English names such as Emily and Jack sharing the stage with ...
aThe people of Ireland are ready to become a portion of the [British] Empire, provided they be made so in reality and not in name alone; they are ready to become a kind of West Briton if made so in benefits and justice; but if not, we are Irishmen again.[120][translate]...
Given the intensity of narrative contestation over the public history of and discourse around the modern period of Northern Irish civil conflict known locally as 'the Troubles', for filmmakers from outside of Northern Ireland to be seen as making a legitimate contribution to existing debates, there...
Along with Charles and William, other prince names in the US Top 500 include Alexander, Carlos, Emmanuel, Felix, Louis, Magnus, Nikolai, and Pablo. Among the more extravagant recent prince names are Baudouin, Guillaume, Konstantinos, and Valdemar. Some of the real little princes have three or...
The name sits at No. 601 onBabyCenter,which uses data from parents on the popularity of baby names. Donald means "world ruler," according to its Gaelic origins, a primitive Irish language still spoken in parts of Scotland, from the name Domhnall. ...
has been one of the English-speaking world's most consistently popular names, never leaving the top 30 names for boys in the United States, and reaching the top rank in England and Wales during the 1950s and 60s. In Spain it was the most popular name for boys during the 1970s and ...
The town has no obvious association with the fruit other than being on the road from Marseilles to Paris, along which masses of oranges were transported to northern France and beyond. In this roundabout way the political/religious movement of Northern Irish Protestantism acquired an association with...
of the gemstone, which comes from a Semitic word meaning "speckled stone." Jasper is the usual English form for one of the Three Wise Men who brought gifts to the infant Christ according to medieval tradition and appears in the Bible as a reference to the stone itself in Revelations 4:3...