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'''Thuong'''. Vietnamese. Meaning "Love tenderly."<ref>https://babynames.com/name/THUONG [https://web.archive.org/web/20200803145250/https://www.babynames.com/name/thuong Archived] on 17 July 2023</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> | '''Thuong'''. Vietnamese. Meaning "Love tenderly."<ref>https://babynames.com/name/THUONG [https://web.archive.org/web/20200803145250/https://www.babynames.com/name/thuong Archived] on 17 July 2023</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> | ||
'''Thunder.''' In English, Thunder means, “A loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air.” The name Thunder just has a nice ring to it and, it’s a nice rainy earthy name too. Keywords: English, weather, 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/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20220725121526/https://catholicreadings.org/saint-theobald-of-vienne-saint-of-the-day-may-21/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</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/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20220725121526/https://catholicreadings.org/saint-theobald-of-vienne-saint-of-the-day-may-21/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</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. | ||
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'''Tyme'''. English. This modern neutral given name appeared in the 1980s. From an archaic spelling of the word "time" in modern English.<ref>https://www.popular-babynames.com/name/thyme</ref><ref>https://www.wordnik.com/words/tyme [https://web.archive.org/web/20100113180903/http://www.wordnik.com:80/words/tyme Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> US SSA data shows about 46 people have had this given name, used as a feminine name 71% of the time.<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/T/TY/TYME/index.html</ref> | '''Tyme'''. English. This modern neutral given name appeared in the 1980s. From an archaic spelling of the word "time" in modern English.<ref>https://www.popular-babynames.com/name/thyme</ref><ref>https://www.wordnik.com/words/tyme [https://web.archive.org/web/20100113180903/http://www.wordnik.com:80/words/tyme Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> US SSA data shows about 46 people have had this given name, used as a feminine name 71% of the time.<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/T/TY/TYME/index.html</ref> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||