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unusual facts about Given names



Prince Louis of Luxembourg

Prince Louis of Luxembourg (given names: Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume; born 3 August 1986) is the third son of the Grand Duke Henri and the Cuban-born Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg (née María Teresa Mestre y Batista-Falla).

William, Duke of Nassau

Wilhelm, Duke of Nassau, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (Given names: Georg Wilhelm August Heinrich Belgicus zu Nassau-Weilburg/zu Nassau) (14 June 1792, Kirchheimbolanden – 20 August/30 August 1839, Bad Kissingen) was the father of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Queen Sophia (consort of King of Oscar II of Sweden).


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Ark II

The show's premise was inspired by the story of Noah's Ark, and the characters were given names taken from the Hebrew Bible.

Dhu al-Fiqar

"Zulfiqar" and its phonetic variations have been popular given names, as with former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Glenelg, Mars

The location was named Glenelg by NASA scientists for two reasons: all features in the immediate vicinity were given names associated with Yellowknife in northern Canada, and Glenelg is the name of a geological feature there.

Hanja

They include 畓 (논 답; non dap; "paddyfield"), 乭 (Dol, a character only used in given names), 㸴 (So, a rare surname from Seongju), and 怾 (Gi, an old name of the Kumgangsan).

Immanuel Winkler

Immanuel Winkler (*June 3, 1886 in Sarata; †June 18, 1932 in Winnipeg), given names Adolf Immanuel Mathaeus, was Pastor in Hoffnungstal and author.

Maude Bonney

Born as Maude Rose Rubens, in Pretoria, South Africa, she adopted the name "Lores" later in preference to her given names.

Merchant aircraft carrier

Many of the ships were given names with the prefix "Mac-", in a reference to their designation as MACs; the "Empire" prefix was used on ships built by the Ministry of War Transport to distinguish them from pre-war privately owned ships.

Météo+

Pierre Douglas Guérin (René Lemieux), the CEO of Météo+, is a businessman with delusions of being the next Ted Turner — even going so far as to adopt the nickname Ted instead of his own given names.

Monmouth Comprehensive School

The buildings have been given names chosen by the students, based on mythical creatures: Phoenix, Pegasus, Gryphon, Sphinx, Dragon and Unicorn.

Priozersk

The new given names of 1948 had no ties to historic names except Vyborg.

Silvinho

Silvinho is a Portuguese nickname for various people with Sílvio given names, it means small Sílvio.

The Deemster

Gilcrist's departure on the King Orry to Liverpool is anachronistic, as most sailings from the island went to Whitehaven at the time, and the name 'King Orry' reflects that of a 19th-century Steam Packet, whereas 18th century packets were usually given names like the 'Duke of Athol'.

Unique Population Registry Code

When a person has two given names and the first given name is María, as is often the case for women in Mexico, or José, in the case of men, the first name will be overlooked and the fourth character will be taken from the second given name's initial.

Yoon-sung

There are 15 hanja with the reading "Yoon" and 27 hanja with the reading "Sung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.