Guernsey Names: Interesting Combos from the Channel Islands
Since I happen to be married to someone who was born and raised on the island of Guernsey–yes, the Guernsey of cows and Potato Peel Pie Society fame–I’ve spent quite a bit of family time there and, out of curiosity, also check the Guernsey Press site online fairly regularly–particularly the names in the birth announcements, of course.
Even though Guernsey is closer to the French shore of the English channel than the English, and many of the familes have surnames like Le Maitre and Vaudin (my mother-in-law’s maiden name), and my husband Chris grew up with boys named Marcel and Henri, very few modern parents there are using Gallic first names for their babies, so that these birth announcements aren’t all that different from those in the English papers.
The names might be similar, but the combinations of firsts and middles strike me as very different from what would be found in the US. Poppy Ina? Lexi Lu? Jake Max?
Here are some of the most recent:
GIRLS
LUCIA EMILIA (Dad named Mirio)
YVIE-MAE
And among the boys:
By the way, the little girl in the illustration with the Guernsey cow is my daughter Chloe.