{"id":13018,"date":"2017-10-23T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13018"},"modified":"2018-10-13T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T23:27:30","slug":"baby-naming-issue-sciencescientist-related-names-for-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/10\/23\/baby-naming-issue-sciencescientist-related-names-for-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Science\/Scientist-Related Names for Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

I was planning to write to you a little later in my pregnancy, but since you wrote your post about being uninspired<\/a>, I thought this exercise might be fun to do now.<\/p>\n

I have a four-year-old son named after a semi-famous scientist. My husband works in the science field, and I am generally interested in sciency things so it worked out. I also liked that the name was used in a children\u2019s book that I had read 20 years ago, and still remembered that particular character name. If you\u2019re wondering, the name is Tych0.<\/p>\n

The issue I need help with is this: We haven\u2019t found out the sex of the second (and final) child, but we have generally discussed names, and for a girl, my husband\u2019s favorites are Anastasia and Aurora. I think both are beautiful names, but something was bothering me about them. And then I realized\u2014my main association with both those names are Disney princesses! It bothers me to have my son named after a scientist and then name my daughter after a princess. Just\u2026.No.<\/p>\n

So I thought it would be fun to crowd-source and see what woman scientist names people could come up with. It\u2019s surprisingly hard especially compared to male scientists. I know I could just Google, but I\u2019m looking for names that are not totally and completely obscure, names that people might have heard of before and just don\u2019t remember. That\u2019s what I like about Tych0\u2019s name. Some people have never heard of him, but sciency folks get a little twinkle in their eye when they hear it. My current list is:<\/p>\n

Marie (Curie)<\/p>\n

Jane (Goodall)<\/p>\n

Kathryn (Johnson, from Hidden Figures)<\/p>\n

Ada (Lovelace)<\/p>\n

Mae (Jemison)<\/p>\n

Sally (Ride)<\/p>\n

\u2026and that\u2019s all I can come up with off the top of my head, sadly. I\u2019d be excited to read what other names you and your readers could think of that fit this category.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n

Faye<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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There’s a book on my Christmas wish list that I wish I had now so I could consult it:<\/p>\n

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(image from Amazon.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

Women in Science, by Rachel Ignotofsky<\/a><\/p>\n

Ada Lovelace is the scientist who came immediately to my mind; and because her name is unusual, the scientist comes to my mind whenever I hear it. That’s my favorite from your list.<\/p>\n

I can add Elizabeth Blackwell and Grace Hopper. But the names Elizabeth and Grace don’t bring the doctor or the mathematician\/programmer to my mind.<\/p>\n

I know we’re seeing what we can think of off the tops of our heads, but here’s a link to Wikipedia’s Women in Science page, in case anyone would like to jog their memories: Wikipedia: Women in Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Name update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

This is an update for my post, Science-Related Names for Girls, that you published about a year ago. I can’t believe its been that long!<\/p>\n

We did not find out the sex of our baby before birth, but I had a strong feeling that it was a girl. So much so, that I couldn’t focus on figuring out boy names at all. (Does that happen to other people?) Our top names for girls were Ada, Octavia, Luna, and Z0ra. I thought I would end up with an Ada because it seemed to fit so perfectly with the theme. We did have a girl, and her name is Z0ra Valentin@.<\/p>\n

We originally found her name on our family tree; she was my husband’s great-grandmother. I’m a big reader, so I also liked the association with the author. Just a little while after deciding on her name, I saw your twitter poll on people’s impressions of Z0ra, and it cemented that it was perfect for us. Vintage + space princess is exactly what we wanted. We chose Valentin@ because I wanted something that worked for the Italian-speaking side of my family, and also for the first female astronaut. <\/p>\n

So my son’s first name is space\/astronomy-related, and his middle is from our family tree, and my daughter’s is vice-versa. We love her name, and we also loved all of the comments and suggestions on the original post. Thank you!<\/p>\n

Faye<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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