Ancient Rome naming?

Michellie7

I'm not sure if it's just a kick I'm on... but I seem to have a new love for Ancient Roman names! Such as... girl: Gaia, Lucia, Marca, Caelia and boy: Maximus, hm can't recall any other boy names at the moment! Any thoughts?

Mrs.Deputy

Julius...and Caesar.

Fergie+1

I found my son's name on a list of Latin names, and I love it. It's different without being youneek or made-up-sounding/actually made-up. (Latin as in actual, priests-use-it Latin) Check out historically correct name sites and browse.

https://www.lowchensaustralia.com/names/romannames.htm 

https://www.mybirthcare.com/favorites/pg1/Teutonic-names.asp

https://www.behindthename.com/nmc/gre-myth.php

https://www.babynamenetwork.com/baby_names/origins/Latin_baby_names.cfm

The first site is Roman names, the rest are just for you to peruse and see if anything strikes your fancy... these are just a few. Good luck choosing!

Michellie7

Fergie+1:

I found my son's name on a list of Latin names, and I love it. It's different without being youneek or made-up-sounding/actually made-up. (Latin as in actual, priests-use-it Latin) Check out historically correct name sites and browse.

https://www.lowchensaustralia.com/names/romannames.htm 

https://www.mybirthcare.com/favorites/pg1/Teutonic-names.asp

https://www.behindthename.com/nmc/gre-myth.php

https://www.babynamenetwork.com/baby_names/origins/Latin_baby_names.cfm

The first site is Roman names, the rest are just for you to peruse and see if anything strikes your fancy... these are just a few. Good luck choosing!

Thanks so much for this!!

Michellie7

Thanks a lot for those websites!!

SarahPLiz

We'll probably end up with a Latin or Roman boy's name too. Tiberius is a family name for us, and another poster was contemplating Hadrian. It happens.

citychicks

SarahPLiz:

We'll probably end up with a Latin or Roman boy's name too. Tiberius is a family name for us, and another poster was contemplating Hadrian. It happens.

It`s me and we are still using Hadrian a mn. And we were also contemplating Tiberius. At one point while very dicouraged with boys names I decided to use Tertius as the baby`s name if it was a boy. I actually spent a few weeks call my bump Tertius. Lol.

citychicks

Michellie7:

I'm not sure if it's just a kick I'm on... but I seem to have a new love for Ancient Roman names! Such as... girl: Gaia, Lucia, Marca, Caelia and boy: Maximus, hm can't recall any other boy names at the moment! Any thoughts?

Portia and Aurelia are both Roman girls names. Although Portia is more famous as a character from ``The Merchant of Venice.``

anna7602

Flavia is my favorite Roman girl's name.

waterfly

citychicks:

Although Portia is more famous as a character from ``The Merchant of Venice.``

Well...and Brutus' wife from Julius Caesar, which I suspect more people read in high school...both very strong female characters, though.

Latin-based names are pretty popular in general right now, though, I think--Ava and Sophia are both Latin in origin, as is Cecelia(Caecilia), Amelia(Aemilia), August/Augustus, Julia/Juliana, Clara, Livia, Marina, Marcus, Sabina, Vera, Felix, Flora, Honoria, Leo, Laura, Patricia, Sylvia(Silvia), and Victoria...all of which I've seen mentioned here as first or middle name possibilities(or the names of existing children) in the past few months.

And that's not even counting all the ones that are, for example, Anglicized spellings of the Gaelic or Germanic variants of names that have their origins in Latin, etc.  A LOT of common names have their roots in Latin, simply because it was the "official" language of the western world for such a long time, thanks to the Catholic church.  Add in there that being named after a saint was quite popular, and that many early saints were in fact Roman citizens, and it's not that surprising that a lot of what are considered "classic" names come from Latin(and most of the ones that don't, come from areas that were subject to Roman rule, like Greece and Judea).

msmerymac

I love Cornelia.

 

The issue with Roman names is that female names are diminutives of male names - girls were always named after their fathers and subsumed their own identity. (If you have 2 or 3 daughters, they'd be named Cornelia 1, Cornelia 2, etc). I don't know how I feel about that. But some are pretty. Names I like:

 

Aurelius

Julius

Octavia

Lucius

Tiberius

Appia

Vibia