Well, the announcement of the coronation of Isabella on Friday usurped our regular Mother’s Day blog spot, but we hope you’re still feeling enough of an afterglow to enjoy revisiting this gathering of  some of the more interesting names of  moms of distinguished sons and daughters. Turns out that a surprising number of past (and a few present) notables have had mothers with noteworthy names and here are some prominent examples:

　　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 (also her father’s name)

　　STELLA — Jackson Pollock

　　VERNITA — Oprah Winfrey

　　Does your mom have an unusual or interesting name?

　　HOPE YOU HAD A HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, EVERYONE !!