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'''Theo'''. English, German, and Dutch. Traditionally masculine, but with some use in the US as a neutral name throughout the 1880s to the 1930s, in reference to the contemporary US president Theodore Roosevelt. Theo is short for masculine names Theodore and Theobald, and feminine names Theodora, all meaning "God's gift" in Greek.<ref>https://www.behindthename.com/name/theo</ref><ref name="NeutralBook" /> US SSA data shows about 9,872 people have had this given name, used as a masculine name 75% of the time.<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/T/TH/THEO/index.html</ref> Keywords: Edwardian era, two syllables, Victorian era. Nonbinary people with this name include actor [[Theo Germaine]]. | '''Theo'''. English, German, and Dutch. Traditionally masculine, but with some use in the US as a neutral name throughout the 1880s to the 1930s, in reference to the contemporary US president Theodore Roosevelt. Theo is short for masculine names Theodore and Theobald, and feminine names Theodora, all meaning "God's gift" in Greek.<ref>https://www.behindthename.com/name/theo</ref><ref name="NeutralBook" /> US SSA data shows about 9,872 people have had this given name, used as a masculine name 75% of the time.<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/T/TH/THEO/index.html</ref> Keywords: Edwardian era, two syllables, Victorian era. Nonbinary people with this name include actor [[Theo Germaine]]. | ||
'''Thuong'''. US SSA data shows about 2,103 people have had this given name, used as a feminine name 78% of the time.<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/T/TH/THUONG/index.html</ref> | '''Thuong'''. Vietnamese. Meaning "Love tenderly."<ref>https://babynames.com/name/THUONG</ref> US SSA data shows about 2,103 people have had this given name, used as a feminine name 78% of the time.<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/T/TH/THUONG/index.html</ref> | ||
'''Tib'''. English. For a period of time during the 1200s in England, the traditionally masculine name Theobald came to be widely used as a neutral name. One factor that contributed to its popularity was that one of the naming practices in that time was to sometimes name children according to what day of the year they were born. If someone was born on May 21, the feast day of Saint Theobald, then they would be called Theobald in his honor, or perhaps the feminine form Theobalda. In everyday use, anyone named Theobald (or Theobalda) went by one of the pet forms of the name, such as Tib, '''Tibbe''', '''Tibbett''', '''Tibbot''', '''Tibby''', '''Tibot''', '''Tibota''', or '''Tippitt'''. These many variants helped distinguish between different people who shared the same popular name. By 1300, Tib and its variants had become strictly feminine. From the 1350s to 1550s, they also became the common names for female cats. (The counterpart for male cats was Gib, which was short for the masculine name Gilbert, so a pair of cats were called Tib and Gib.)<ref>Charles W. Bardsley. ''Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature''. New York: R. Worthington, 1880. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Curiosities_of_Puritan_Nomenclature Page 25-26, 43.</ref><ref>https://catholicreadings.org/saint-theobald-of-vienne-saint-of-the-day-may-21/</ref><ref name="2knames5" /> Tib and its variants have largely disappeared from use in English-speaking countries. Keywords: animals, cats, cute, medieval, one syllable, pets, two syllables. | '''Tib'''. English. For a period of time during the 1200s in England, the traditionally masculine name Theobald came to be widely used as a neutral name. One factor that contributed to its popularity was that one of the naming practices in that time was to sometimes name children according to what day of the year they were born. If someone was born on May 21, the feast day of Saint Theobald, then they would be called Theobald in his honor, or perhaps the feminine form Theobalda. In everyday use, anyone named Theobald (or Theobalda) went by one of the pet forms of the name, such as Tib, '''Tibbe''', '''Tibbett''', '''Tibbot''', '''Tibby''', '''Tibot''', '''Tibota''', or '''Tippitt'''. These many variants helped distinguish between different people who shared the same popular name. By 1300, Tib and its variants had become strictly feminine. From the 1350s to 1550s, they also became the common names for female cats. (The counterpart for male cats was Gib, which was short for the masculine name Gilbert, so a pair of cats were called Tib and Gib.)<ref>Charles W. Bardsley. ''Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature''. New York: R. Worthington, 1880. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Curiosities_of_Puritan_Nomenclature Page 25-26, 43.</ref><ref>https://catholicreadings.org/saint-theobald-of-vienne-saint-of-the-day-may-21/</ref><ref name="2knames5" /> Tib and its variants have largely disappeared from use in English-speaking countries. Keywords: animals, cats, cute, medieval, one syllable, pets, two syllables. | ||