In anticipation of Mother’s Day, we thought we’d turn the tables and look at the names of some distinguished moms. Turns out that a surprising number of past (and a few present) notables have had mothers with interesting names. Probably too far-fetched to think there’s any correlation, but in any case here are some examples–a really mixed batch.

　　ABIAH — Benjamin Franklin

　　ADELINE —Clark Gable

　　ALBERTA — Martin Luther King

　　AMALIA — Sigmund Freud

　　ARETHA — Ray Charles

　　AURELIA — Arnold Schwarzenegger

　　AUGUSTA — Arthur Miller

　　AVIS — Bob Hope

　　BEATRICE — Bob Dylan

　　BRYNA — Kirk Douglas

　　CASSANDRA — Jane Austen

　　CECILIA — Harry Houdini

　　CHRISTIANA — George Eliot

　　DAISY — Duke Ellington

　　DESIREE — Lucille Ball

　　DOLLY — Frank Sinatra

　　EDWINA — Tennessee Williams

　　ELNORA — Gene Autry

　　EUPHAMIA — Sean Connery

　　EVA — Mick Jagger

　　EVANGELIA — MAria Callas

　　EVANGELINE — Charles Lindbergh

　　FELIPA — Salvador Dali

　　FLORA — Walt Disney

　　FRANCESCA — Michelangelo

　　GABRIELLE — Jack Kerouac

　　GLADYS — Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley

　　JULIA — Andy Warhol, John Lennon

　　KUTILDA — Tiger Woods

　　LETIZIA — Napoleon Buonaparte

　　LUCINDA — George Bernard Shaw

　　LUCRETIA — Edith Wharton

　　MARICHEN — Henrik Ibsen

　　MATILDE — Frida Kahlo

　　MAUD — Humphrey Bogart

　　MINNIE — The Marx Brothers

　　NANCY — Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison

　　NEELTJE — Rembrandt van Rijn

　　NIKOLLE — Mother Teresa

　　ODESSA — Muhammad Ali

　　OLIMPIA — Henri Matisse

　　PAULINE — Albert Einstein

　　ROMILDA — Sophia Loren

　　ROSA — George Gershwin

　　STANLEY — Barack Obama

　　STELLA — Jackson Pollock

　　VERNITA — Oprah Winfrey

　　What’s YOUR mom’s name?  Let us and the rest of the nameberry community know!

　　And HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, EVERYONE !!