Totally off topic - You're eyebrows have an amazing arch/ shape but could use a bit of a warmer brown brow liner to blend better with your hair colour (which looks great on you btw) and your fair complexion and subtlety rosey make-up.

How did your name affect your life, if it is really Dashwood? When did you become aware that you share the name of one of the most famose families in english literature? Is your first name Electra, or did I see that wrong? I snooped a bit on your website…. My favorite English name was always Elisabeth, even before I knew of Jane Austen. Our teacher in my first ever English class in 5th grade made us choose an english name for our English classes and I chose that.

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Upon my word! Slapping a holy book?

I just think about regency people carefully considering pious family names from the bible, and then I think about how I was named. My dad, looking at newborn me: "Wow she's pretty red. ... I've got it!"

😂 That would be epic!

I 100% back them with those names 😂

It’s called use saint names lol

I know about a little boy that is called Melchior. His father is also catholic. And in Sweden we have an 18:th century musician that often wrote about a man called Mowitz, that has also become a christian namn in one boy I now.

My grand uncle was named Gaspar (as in one of the 3 wise men) and his son (my uncle) was named like his father :)

Forgot to add that "compound" first names are quite common amongst the older Mexican/Mexican-American people: Jose Maria, Maria Jose, Juan Maria, etc.!

That's so interesting! My friends dad's name is Juan Carlos, so I guess that explains that. 😃

Portugal was like that too! Now not so much (although we still use a lot of compound names) but i have a really funny story about how my grandmother really wished she was named Mónica bc she was born in Saint Mónica's day, so during primary school she'd sign her tests as Maria Eugénia Mónica and the teacher never noticed 😂

hey, I have a great uncle born on Christmas with basically the same name! Jesus Natal (Christmas in portuguese), but as far as I know, Brazilians didn't really use the same naming traditions. either way, super interesting and a fun little coincidence lol

@@beatrizhg618 not so common in metropolitan areas in Brazil, but I still see this calendar thing in the countryside. By the way, my grandma is named Maria, but she really wishes she were Maria Rita because she was born on St. Rita's day (may 22nd) and she considers her patron saint.

Hallelujah... oh my, poor child....

@@HamelinSong call them Hal for short 😂

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Faith really dodged a bullet!

Did they consider changing their names or...?This is both funny and sad.😂Faith was the lucky one.

Wow, all of your names are so pretty and noble sounding!

Haha I'm Katherine Mary! And one of my sisters is Jane Elizabeth :)

That’s so beautiful!

My daughter’s name is Margaret! Margaret Grace, we call her Maggie Grace.

wow

And I think that the older Mr Darcy's name was George. George Wickham (his godson) was named after him, I think. Or it would be a strong possibility at least.

Also King George

George and Anne, so Georgiana

@@MaluhXav that's always made me laugh like, Darcy's parents were really out here giving their daughter their own ship name.

@@annarita333 well given that the description of Pemberley given in the novel describes the approach to Chatsworth from Baslow the choice of Georgiana is there to reinforce the connection between Darcy and the Cavendish’s.

Aw, thank you for letting me know!

Also Victoria wasn’t even her first name. It was her middle name. Her first name was actually Alexandria, named for her godfather Alexander the first of Russia.

Queen Victoria's first name was actually Alexandrina.

@@tabby5228 No, her first name was Alexandrina. I checked the two biographies of Queen Victoria that I own.

@ Elisa Fumero you are correct. Thanks for catching my spelling mistake. I forgot the n.

Tara became popular because "Tara" was the name of Scarlett O'Hara's family's plantation in _Gone with the Wind._ Emma became popular all of a sudden because Jennifer Aniston had a baby by that name on _Friends._

same with Jessica

Definitely

Partially because once names become gender neutral, they become girls only. People name girls "masculine" names to be strong and then people stop using them for boys. Ie: Ashley, Courtney, Stacy, Jocelyn, Morgan, and Loren/Lauren are almost completely flipped. MacKenzie, Robin, Avery, Aubrey. I'm wondering how quickly this will happen with Max and James as they are starting to get used for girls right now. Meanwhile, more creative new names enter the girls name pool to begin with.

Awww! That'll be so cool when she grows up and can enjoy Pride and Prejudice and know she's name after one of the coolest heroines ever!

I love the name Elsie! It’s my great nanna Rowland’s name and I think it’s so pretty 🧡

So is it Elizabeth, and you _call her_ Elsie? Or is it actually Elsie on the birth certificate?

My middle name is Elizabeth but I have an extra t on Bennett!

I love the name Elsie, ever watched a fairy tale? The main character is Elsie and I've always loved it

I love the name Honora, I also like the spelling Annora as well :) do you like your first name?

I only had heard the name Honoria in literature- the mother of Lord Peter Whimsey bears that name, and the headmistress of an exclusive school in an Agatha Christie novel. I so loved the sound of it. :-) Oh, and the meaning, too. :-)

I love the name Honora

Ooo, I've only ever heard this name in a couple of novels. I'm so envious, it's a beautiful and unique name!

Then who is Michelle Weaver??

not really the modern era tbf

@@tealwashablemarker8886 that's a very common name nowadays, just like it was centuries ago

Or Charlotte

Another name that seems timeless is Elizabeth. There's very few girls'/women's names (in English speaking world) that don't date. But if you heard of someone called "Elizabeth So-and-so", she could be a bub of 2 years old, or a young woman of 20, or middle aged woman of 50, older woman of 80, or someone born a century ago, or 2 or 3 centuries ago - virtually no other girls' name (in English speaking world) has that quality! There's quite a few for men though - Thomas, James, William, etc, have been constants for a long time.

That's why my kids are Jane and David

My grandma was named Louise and my sister is named Julia Louise. It's lovely! I am also a fan of the old adorable love song "Louise".

Omg, your daughter and I have really similar names! I'm an Ana Luiza, which is basically a latin-america version of Anne Louise haha. Ana is after my father's mother Anna, and Luiza is after my mother's father Luiz. I love it :)

Cool, my older sister is called Anna Louise, but we just call her Anna

I was a super tall redhead named Cynthia in the era of Jennifers. I feel ya.

Haha, my middle name is Ann, after my mom's. Hers is spelled "Anne", but by the decade I was born the E was a little overly fancy and out of style, so it was taken out of mine. ...And as for my first name, it was the only my parents could think of that wasn't an old ex of my dad's or a girl my mom hated, lol. Oh, and also, my dad is the middle child but has the family name too! Technically his older brother was also John, but his middle name was different from the previous generations. He went by that to avoid same-name confusion.

Bennet Bingley? A hoot! ;-)

@@belakovacs708 Bennet Darcy is nice, though.

I've always had this headcanon that Darcy and Elizabeth had at least one son named Bennet Darcy.

Doing this is often done in Scotland to this day. Women in Scotland often kept their family surname even after they married. This went on into the twentieth century.

Mr Darcy's first name is Fitzwilliam because his mom was a Fitzwilliam

And then you have the new generation of the Windsor kids and all of them ACTUALLY looking like Queen Elizabeth II, regardless of their gender and how their mothers look like xDDD. Yet another reason I'd never marry into the English royal family. No money in the world would compensate me for having my prospective progeny to be burdened with such gobs. Also the threat of them hating me for my remaining life for the bog I've gotten them into as soon as they realized their situation, not just in the appearance department.

@@OstblockLatina Not sure what your issue is, Queen Elizabeth II looks good!

@@OstblockLatina HM The Queen was beautiful as a young woman, and is still beautiful as a 94 year-old. I hope I look that good when I'm 94!

True, think of the very common name Sasaki for instnce.

The same happened in Korea, that’s why there are so many Kims, Lees, and Parks. When commoners had to take surnames, many decided to take the names of the most powerful clans.

I actually know a kid named Hippolyte, tho I live in Europe and he’s french so it’s not that weird of a name haha (i presume the parents either rlly liked greek mythology or horses!)

I never knew about it's mythical origins! That's so interesting.

Fun fact: in Portuguese Jacinto (Hyacinth) is really used as a boy's name. Not so popular now, but you'd see several elder men with this name in the countryside.

@mmgold, Think carefully before you do so! To me, Hyacinth is absolutely a female's name, and most associated with the snobbish but hilarious main character in the English comedy series from the 90s, "Keeping Up Appearances". Brilliant series, but ruined the name "Hyacinth" for me forever! I like Jacqueline Viana's suggestion Jacinto though, as a great compromise.

@@Amy-ky5wr i love that show! i feel like she's the only female hyacinth in my brain so it doesnt bother me much. plus by the time i end up with children to name, i bet most folks won't remember the show!

Aw, I love that she named some of her kids after Mathew and Marilla! I've never gotten that far into the series. But the names are so cute!

That’s funny, I never realized exactly none were named for any of Gilbert’s family. I will put it down to authorial interest falling all on Anne’s side. 😆

I think Anne of Green Gables takes place in the late Victorian Era. And I always loved how she named her kids after her friends and family, and I remember wishing my own last name was Blythe because it sounded so happy.

@@zetizahara which makes total sense, since Gilbert is barely present in the book series and we don’t even know his parents names.

@@oOEsperiaOo same with Harry Potter’s kids. All named after his family, hero’s and friends. None after Ginny’s side. Author’s interest was clearly in the hero’s side of the family.

That kind of shocks me because my Nana was born out of wedlock in the 1930s and she was named a family name flipped around as well, so I wonder if that was a naming practice I'm not even aware of? *I'm a name nerd myself*

that's hilarious! like, yeah you're part of the family, but not in the right way so your name isn't in the right way either haha

Wow, Reliance is super cool! I've never heard of that one.

Lydia is a biblical name, though, so not as "frivolous" as, say, Sophia or Annabella. But it probably represents a detour from the more classical names of Jane, Elizabeth, Mary and Katherine (Kitty).

I don´t think Mrs. Bennet knew what names were biblical and what were Greek.

Haha my parents did something similar with my name - they really liked another name that also started with EL but then they realised that it rhymed with their last name and went "well we don't have to make it Easy for bullies to pick on her, Elisabeth is pretty too" lol

My favourite gravestone seen recently was for Gerty Leak, the beloved wife of Willy Leak

I found a Lily Flower in a cemetery ♥️

@@elizabethwoolnough4358 haha, I would frame a picture of that! 😂

That's not a bad rule of thumb. I haven't got children, but if I did, I think I'd do what I call the "Archbishop of Canterbury" test. (Imagine that, say, little Prince George is being crowned as King one day and the TV commentator is saying, in a solemn voice, "And now, The Right Reverend Ashliegh Brittany Smith-Jones takes the Crown and places it on the head of . . .".) It works the same if you try it with Prime Minister, or any other important-sounding job; if it sounds wrong in that situation, rethink the name - because you never know what babies will grow up to become.

that was my thought also, even the created names Clarissa and Pamela have roots in classic languages. I think I would have a compound name, a common first paired with a more stylish second name, Jane Augusta. 🌞

My middle name is Eleanor, but I hated it because it was an 'old woman name'. As was my first name, Pauline. I once complained about that - my mother snippily commented that I could have been named after her mother, "Selma" rather than my father's late mother ! They panicked in the naming thing, because my father would not consider having anything other than a blond BOY ! When he saw me, he insisted that the nurse had brought him the wrong child, a black haired girl! (Although both of my Scandinavian grandfathers had black hair.) I am 70, and THAT is still hilarious ! ! Edit: I've long ago gotten over the, not liking my name thing. Sometime, during high school, one of my best friends -who also disliked her name - observed, that whenever she heard a name, her mind simply saw the PERSON it represented. Great observation ! ! RIP - Iris, - (means rainbow) - talented, smart, funny, courageous, - colorful writer, artist, musician, loyal friend.

My name is Helena but l always loved the name Eleanor (both have the same meaning). So much so that l wanted to call my daughter by that name. Unfortunately my husband (Mark) disliked the name because he said it was an old lady name. We compromised and called her Amelia. I still think Eleanor is the most beautiful name out there.

My name is Elenore! 🥰 but it’s spelt differently than usual

I may be a little biased 😉 but I’m a big fan of Elinor Dashwood’s spelling of the name 😂😂

@@helens403 Never tell him that Amelia is also, an "old" name ! I like Amelia !

You were totally living the Regency life!!!

@@EllieDashwood I sure was!!

Thank you! One of my biggest pet peeves is when people repeat the “Allison was a boys name” myth. Allison was a feminine name long before the regency era.

@@AlliJuarez It's ridiculous when it's like "You just chose like the one -son name that doesn't mean son of XX." Fun facts though, Allison is a boy's name in Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries. Likely from the surname, which has a separate etymology. Also, people love adding false etymology to names.

Thanks for letting me know. I did specifically look into Alison, but clearly not close enough.😂 I think it probably does have different cultural histories that make it very confusing.

Marion was originally a diminutive of Mary too.

My great grandmother and my husband’s great aunt were both call Niclas.

So true

Oh , same name ! In my case my dad is indian and named me Juliette because he wanted a good name not common in our country and saw 'Juliette' in a book and liked it .

Aw, thank you! And that's super interesting about Hyacinth! Also, Primrose Primalia Primula is such an incredible name. 😂

@@EllieDashwood I thought so too! 😀

Your name is so pretty! And I think Georgiana is a great choice too. 👍

I’ve always felt my name should be Beatrice.

Georgiana is a beautiful name but so is Charlotte. It always makes me think of Charlotte Lucas who is a very nice person.

Is Catherine after Catherine Morland? Anyway it is a lovely name.

I have the feeling, that my ancestors were not sooo adventurous. Maybe depends on the social stand? My grandma's where both named Anna Maria, my grandpa's Wilhelm and Georg. But I don't know about my other ancestors. Only thing I know, that you notice that we come from a catholic family. Georg is a really biblical name, same Anna Maria.

@@MrsNanaBlue There is no George in the Bible, though? Are you thinking of a saint?

It becomes even more interesting once you mix both languages. My great grandpa emigrated from Austria to Brazil in the 20s. His passport and older documents say that he was called Rochus. Once he assimilated here he decided to go by as Augusto Rochus, later changed to Augusto Roque, which sounds so odd...

@@MrsNanaBlue On the German side of my family we mostly come from welthy, East Prussian gentry and country nobility. My Portuguese ancestors were mostly merchants and military. Both sides of my family were Catholic, wich is why most had middle names like Maria, Markus, Georg, Eva, Fátima, Lukas, Johannes and Martha. A big trend in grandmothers family was giving girls Roman or Roman sounding names, for example my aunt Claudia my great aunts Laurentia and Aurelia, my great grandmothers middle name Cordelia and my middle name Amalia.

@@sweetsandcharades8383 yes. Georg the killer of the dragon. I believe he was a saint.

😂 It can get so confusing back then with all the name duplicates!

That is so cool that you have the same name as Elinor! It really is an unusual spelling. But an excellent one! 😃

It is a lovely name and Elinor Dashwood is a lovely character.

I’ve always wondered about the W thing. I was reading recently that one of Austen’s good friends had her heart broken by a “Mr. W.” I wonder if there is any connection... 🤔

That’s a good question! I actually had someone else talking about Diana too. Greek and Roman names were used and some became popular too because of the “Saint” category. Saint Diana is from the 1200s.

If Thankyethe was your first name today you'd probably have issues applying to jobs because of institutional racism...

That's interesting! I researched it while making this video and sources were super mixed on the topic. I wonder if part of it could be the usage of the name in different places and cultures.

But the name stuck, didn´t it?

Update: I’m going to call her Cordelia! My husband is a bit mad at me cause apparently it had nothing to do with the bible but I reminded him that he said that i’m allowed to call her whatever I want! Not too long to go until I have her too! Can’t wait!

Going by some of the naming patterns I've found in my family, I'd say that was a good possibility. I've seen similar things in my family, although the "pattern" varies sometimes. For instance, my 3xgreat-grandparents had 11 children - the first son named after the maternal grandfather, first daughter after paternal grandmother, second son after paternal grandfather, second daughter (randomly) after her mother's sister (although the aunt in question had died nine months before that particular baby was born), and the third daughter after the maternal grandmother. The fourth daughter was Elizabeth (so could have been after an aunt on either side, or her father's grandmother). Only when the third son is born did they get round to naming him after his dad! (And because the third and fourth daughters died young, when the next two girls came along, they were named after their deceased siblings.) It's reached the point now where, if I'm trying to trace an ancestor's parents, I've started to look for couples with the same names as that ancestor's eldest children!

No, you would definitely not have Gudrun as your name (I'm guessing that you have Swedish ancestors?) Maybe Thordis but I doubt it, it would have been ridiculed. I think. No, the swedish names were similar to those in England like Anna, Katarina, Maria, Margareta, Kristina, Charlotta. There were also variants like Maja for Maria and Märta for Margareta but they were not the "given namn"

@@marianaeriksdotterbergkvis4798 I’ve come across the names I suggested in my family history but for all I know these women were teased for their names. Sadly there is also a Sigurbjorg. I’m willing to consider the possibility that my ancestors were total nerds lol.

@@annikabjornson998 Are your ancestors swedish? Interesting that those were your ancestors name. I think ther might have joined somerthing that was called "Götiska förbundet" that among other things placed the garden of Eden in Scandihavia.

@@annikabjornson998 I can imagine them coming up in the mid to late 19th and early 20th centuries during the era of Scandinavism and Norse revival (in Denmark and Norway you see old names like Thyra and Harald making a comeback because people became obsessed with everything belonging to the old Nordic). But prior to that in the late 18th and early 19th century, it’s very unlikely that you would see Norse names. The upper and middle classes were still being fashionable with French and German names and the poor stuck to the Scandinavian versions of classic Christian names; Maren, Sille, Karen, Margrethe, Kirsten. As a matter of interest when did these names occur on your family tree?

@@BexMatthies Thordis was in 1836, Gudrun was born in 1795. Both in Iceland. There is a Katrin in the early 1800s.

And Throckmorton sounds Elizabethan!

😂 So true. Writing brings in so many possibilities!

Wow, that's such a unique and original name. It's so cool that its been in your family so long!

It’s a Welsh girl’s name.

You should be proud of your name Elizabeth.

Wow! That’s super interesting.

😂 At least it shows you’re still in the same family tree!

That’s super interesting!

Love that!!!

And Eleanor is a lovely name. It reminds me of Eleanor Tilney who is such an adorable character.

that makes my bookish heart warm. best of luck with your kiddos

The English translation of your name would be Valerie but i don't know how long ago it was used. In the 19th century a lot of people who moved from other countries to England kept their home spelling and pronunciation (and lots of English women used a French name to sell fashion or beauty related things as a dressmaker calling herself Madame Marie seemed like she would know the latest French fashions better than if she had stayed Mary Smith) but others chose to translate it into the nearest English equivalent.

Does your name translate to English as 'Valerie of the angels' ? That would be precious.

@@paulinelarson465 Yes, it does haha Thank you for de compliment ☺️. It’s because I am Costa Rican and our patron saint is a Virgin Mary depiction called Our Lady of the Angels, so I am named after her :)

Valeria de Los Ángeles is a great name for the protagonist of a period telenovela. You'd rock it 😎😍

@@JacquelineViana Omg haha, thank you for the compliment ☺️✨

My dad's family is Dutch, and pretty much all the men throughout the family pre-20th century were named after eachother in different ways (and they were all saint names). So a loooot of Johns as first and middle names. My dad is the only "The 3rd" I've actually known in this day and age.

Your mom had such great taste! What could be better than Elizabeth Jane? BTW, isn´t Coleen Irish?

That's awesome! It's so cool you have the same name as Elizabeth Bennet!

I'll second that!

In the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Gardiner at one point calls his sister, Mrs. Bennet, Fanny. I'm not aware that Jane Austen referred to her as Fanny but maybe I should re-read the book! Fanny seems like a more Victorian or early 20th century than Regency name to me.

@@jodiknight2820 No, because there's Fanny Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility

I like to think Mrs Gardiner's name is Madeline

@@elizabethwoolnough4358 I forgot about Fanny Dashwood!

@@jodiknight2820 And Fanny Price from Mansfield Park.

Amelia is a lovely name, but I have a personal preference for the name Jane, as it is my own middle name! Victoria Jane :)

@@toriwoodward045 beautiful name!!

Jane is pretty!

Amelia is/was on our list of girls names. So far we have 2 boys and we’re not 100% sure whether we’re done yet, so we may or may not get to use it.

Aw, welcome to the channel! You're the first person to ever request a personal Q&A video! And the second person ever to ask me about my name. 😂 Ellie is actually short for my middle name Electra. Electra sounds more like a I should be a superhero or in a sci-fi movie rather than talking about classic literature so I decided to shorten it. Though electradashwood.com still leads to my website. Dashwood is because everyone tells me that I remind them of Elinor Dashwood (though I'm not sure why). Also, because ever since I was 10 years old and I discovered authors had pen names and actors had stage names I wanted one. 😂 As for the Q&A video, I will add it to my list of video ideas!

@@EllieDashwood nice! I hope to be published one day. I would have preferred to use my original name, but I’ll probably end up using a pen name because there is an MTV reality tv star with my name who published books and I don’t want there to be any confusion. Lol

So Dot then....

Yes, the Kevin phase was awful in Germany lol (after Home Alone). Mandy was another such name. My middle name is Elizabeth, after my gran, who was always called Lizzie by her friends...so very Regency friendly.

My maternal grandmother was Dorothea Grace. I called her GrandmaDot! 😊

Its a beautiful name and i actually considered it as a middle name for Elodie but unfortunately today outside of France specifically in english speaking countries its basically considered a strippers etc name. Like "Trixie" short for Beatrix so while i love the names i know being australian theyd get misspelled butchered pronunciation or jokes or worse be nicknamed which i dont mind nicknames but for romantic french type names it doesnt sound lovely like Dez or Liz for elizabeth or IZ for Isabeau etc and while the nicknames themselves arent usually bad i just yeah id rather short names like Clare so they can have nicknames but it wont shorten the actual name i that makes sense. Anyway ive comforted myself in the fact that i can use them in books haha.

The Swedish Royal Family to this day uses the name Désirée, so yes, definitely a royal name in Sweden ;)

@@EmmaAppleBerry Elodie?

In France Désiré or Désirée was also the name for unwanted kids. If a firstborn was named Désiré he was obviously very wanted, but if it was the 7th kids.....

Wow! That's so cool!

Thank you, I immediately was like, Allison isn't like other "son" names! It's the exception, lol.

Thank you so much! This is so interesting, because I did specifically check on Alison because it gave me pause. I think there is very mixed information out there about that name it appears. But that is so cool about Chaucer's tales. Thanks for letting me know!

Nice! 👍👍👍

Your family’s names are so cool!

Thank you!

My maternal grandmother was Dorothea Grace. If I had a daughter that is what I wanted to name her.

Thialf sounds like something out of Tolkien.