A conner, or connor in the middle ages was an employee of the king, hence the name (short for coroner). The conner went around making sure that butcher’s and grocer’s scales were fair (and anyone else who sold by weight), and that pint glasses in pubs really held a pint, jiggers really held a jig, etc. and anyone else who sold by measure had fair measures.
of the names of my classmates: Rhonda, Wanda, Quentin, Marc, Marcella, Marella,
in general: Bertha, Wilhemina, Astrid, Irmgard ( my grandmother’s and sister’s names, sorry) Irona (another grandmother, thank God no one was named for her!!!) plus all the Madison and *aiden variations.
Connor is an Irish name, from Conchobhar, meaning dog-lover or wolf-lover. Most baby name sources don’t even list the English occupational word as an origin of the name, exclusively denoting it as Irish.
I was supposed to be a Michel(l)e because my dad wanted me to carry on, so to speak, his name. The story I grew up with had my mother recovering from my birth, still woozy from whatever they gave women in childbirth during that time, and the doctor walking in with the papers she had to sign with my name. The first name she thought of was her deceased older sister’s, but using her godmother’s spelling of the name “because it was different”. When my dad found out he was very disappointed.
I stopped using the general spelling of my nickname and chose a less common one “because it’s different”. I hated my name as a kid because it was common.
“Khaytelynne”. Holy burger and a side of chips did I wanna just yell “stop the world and LET ME OFF!” when I came across that “kreaytive” spelling.
Add in any name that’s worthy of the “ghetto” descriptor. The prefixes of “Ja-” and “De-” and the suffix “-quavious” and similar lovelies are NOT magic.
Precious.
Seriously, don’t name your daughter Precious.
I was waiting for someone else to make this comment first.
I nearly got kicked off a nursing website for saying that kids with names like that aren’t going to be doctors, or any other occupation - that almost all of them will end up in the foster care and criminal justice systems. :dubious: The moderator who PM’d me said, “I work with that population, and you are right, but the webmaster says that post can’t be on our site.” :rolleyes:
I’m going to do the first world problems thing here. In Lesotho my brother worked with a woman whose name roughly translated as “Oh no not another daughter.” She named her daughter Queen, and proudly went by the name Ma Queen (Queen’s mum).
Do you seriously think any of the thousands of American parents naming their babies this can find Ireland on a map? there’s a weird trend of medieval occupations as names right now in the US: Thatcher, Mason, Fletcher, Shepherd, Palmer, Chandler, Cooper, Reeve, Bard, Piper, Hunter, Marshall, Franklin, Tanner, Smith, Lorimer, and several others, including Conner/Connor. I know a little kid (often more than one) with every one of these words as a first name.
Or Princess. There was a girl named this in the AP classes in worked in when I had a special ed (hearing impaired) kid in them in high school where I worked. You could tell the teacher were biting their cheeks every time they said this name.
There’s a similar trend in Australia, and to be honest I don’t have a gripe with any of the names above. In my grandkid’s class (Gr 1) there is a Fletcher and a Connor, and I personally know of families with Cooper, Piper, and Hunter as well. I would MUCH rather such names than the ridiculous kreative kooky knames that tends to beset the illiterate classes.
Yeah, you’re right. I don’t really have a gripe with them as long as they’re spelled the same way the actual word, if you look it up in a dictionary, would be spelled.
I work in a preschool as a floating sub, and thankfully, the kre8tiv trend seems to be going away. Kids with odd name are popping up. We have all the kids with medieval occupations, girls with boy’s names, like Whitney, Alexis and Quincy (we have two different girls named Quincy). I almost said “traditional” boy’s names, but those are kind of obscure boy’s names, even if they do tend to be boy’s names. We also get what seem like made up names, which I won’t repeat, in case the parents are on the board, but they are words like Bealie, and Terlise, and no, they have no relation to the parents’ names-- like, Bealie’s parents are not Beatrice and Lennie, or something. And while we have plenty of names that sound like product brands to me, like Emery, plus oddly popular names like Hudson, and all the Israeli names, and the 73 Liams, we are starting to see Michaels, Joes, Samuels, Katies, Jessicas, and interestingly, names like Louise and Ruth and Francis.
I actually think people having babies in the current decade are doing a damn sight better with names that the parents of the previous decade.
Oh god, I AM! Really dodged a bullet there.