I don’t know why I decided to do this little project, but I’m going to post two names each day for the month of October. The names for each day will begin with same letter, and I’ll work my way through the alphabet until I do “Z” on October 26th. The names for the rest of the month will come from reader submissions.
ABNER :
Pronounced: AB-nur
Origin(s): Hebrew, English, Biblical
Meaning: “Father of Light” in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Abner was a cousin of Saul and the commander of his army. Abner was a valiant warrior and clever strategist. The story that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 has been discredited.
AGATHA :
Pronounced: AG-a-tha
Origin(s): German, Greek, Latin
Meaning: “Good” from the Greek adjective agathos. Saint Agatha was a 3rd-century martyr from Sicily. After spurning the advances of a Roman official she was tortured and had her breasts cut off before being killed. The mystery writer Agatha Christie wrote over 80 books, most of them featuring one of her two famous detectives; Hercule Poirot, the egotistical Belgian, and Miss Jane Marple, the elderly spinster.
Information sources include Behind the Name, Baby Zone, and Fact Monster.
