Orton Vinnie doesn't sound like a girls name to you does it?
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
United States
June 23, 2017 6:49pm CST
I've heard of girls being named after boys and boys after girls but the name is usually spelled differently and a nickname given to better reflect the person's gender and personality.
I wonder what Orton Vinnie's nickname was.
Can you see the picture above? Orton Vinnie "stepdaughter" to my great grandfather so she'd be my step great aunt I suppose. Though in those days I wonder if "step" was even recognized, especially when more mothers died giving birth or father's died in war or job accidents.
This was for the 1940's census for Forsyth County, NC.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
23 Jun 17
Now there is a name I had never heard not for boy or girl really.
It is original that is for sure.
Maybe they called her Ort for short or Vin..wow who knows.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
I thought of Vin for short but then thought it still seemed boyish.
I've heard of these two names, but never together.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
24 Jun 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum Orty maybe? haha
Its kind of cute really and Vin is awesome! I like the most unusual and this surely is.
Its kind of cute really and Vin is awesome! I like the most unusual and this surely is.1 person likes this
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
@TiarasOceanView I am not sure I like it so much.. I wonder who she might have been named after but I bet I won't ever find out. She's the daughter of my great grandfather's second wife.
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@celticeagle (159710)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Jun 17
Yes, can see it. That is a odd name. I thought it was weird that a naval hero was named Evelyn too. A obvious female name. Often these old names are foreign and don't make much sense to us. And, for some reason I have found it the case with several families I have known down through the years, that the father will give a female child a boy's name.
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@celticeagle (159710)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Jun 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum .....Or Willy. LOL
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
@celticeagle lol maybe not for a girl. Wilma would be better. In fact, Wilma would be lovely!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
I guess I should count myself lucky really. I didn't think about it yesterday when I posted this, but I could have just as easily been given a boys name.
My father is the 3rd in his line with the same name.
Though I suppose his name is easy enough to be made into a female name.
William Franklin into Wilhelmena Francine sounds a lot better.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
Have been off and on, just getting back into it more.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
Not one I would pick out for a female, at least!
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@Courtlynn (66918)
• United States
24 Jun 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum i wouldnt pick it fot a male either
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
Yes I feel like it's a cross between a back country name and an Italian mobster.
I mean, there okay names separately, but not together and not for a girl!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
@NJChicaa I saw that too but "Vinic" doesn't really sound like a name, does it? The last letter does look like a cursive C though. Either way what a name!
@NJChicaa (116206)
• United States
24 Jun 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum I looked at it and it looks more like "Orton Vinic"
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Jun 17
I've heard the two names separately but never together and never for a female.
