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2nd December 11, 12:37 PM
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Re: How to pronounce this name
 Originally Posted by Tobus
Those are the kinds of cool "old" names that you don't see any more. I wish they would see a resurgence in use.
I have ancestors with first and middle names like Weir Aurelius, Amos James, Lewis Felto, and Leweir Lovell. They are very unique and "old timey" to me, and I just think they're cool. I'm guessing that my grandfather, Leweir Lovell, didn't care for his name much, though, because he went by "Pat" (for his last name, Kilpatrick).
It's the same with my grandmother. She has a beautiful name, Ila Virginia, but she goes by "Janie".
My grandfather was a Cecil, his wife Nina (pronounce Nine'-uh), my father Clinton, my other grandmother Isabelle (100 years before it was popular again), her sister Mabel, my other grandfather Howard with brothers Homer, Haskell and Cleo (among several others), my mother originally Willa Joan but she always went by Joan. We have all manner of interesting names in the relatively recent (last 200 years) geneology---Nimrod, Bedford Addison, Orestus Gilbert, Eurastus, Melvin, Ida Mae. It is only when you get back to around the Revolutionary war that the family names revert to more typical English William, Robert, James, John, George and the more traditional repetitive naming patterns of the day using father's father's name, then mother's father's name, etc...
There is nothing like a unique name to make you memorable and individually recognizable. I unfortunately was named after a semi-famous actor of the day Jeffrey Lynn (except my middle name is spelled with an "i" instead of "y"), which seemed to be fairly popular at the time as I have in my life met at least 20 other Jeffrey Lynn xxxxxx's that are right around my age. Still, not a lot of Jeff's in general despite that.
But hey, the OP was looking for the Gaelic pronunciation of the English Declan, that is spelled (if I get it right) Deaglan'. So do any of our gaelic speakers have an answer for her, or for the name origin and meaning? I am now as interested as Squeaky was when she posted.
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2nd December 11, 01:36 PM
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Re: How to pronounce this name
I was named after Chelsea on "Golden Pond." My parents thought they were so original...there were 8 Chelseas (varying spellings) in several of my high school classes and unfortunately 5 of them also shared the same last initial, so I went by my full name my entire high school career.
I don't mind the thread jack....but I would like my question answered. 
OurBabyNamer.com says it means "fully good"
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