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Conference oass::babynames

Title:A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy)
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Moderator:OASS::BURDEN_D
Created:Tue Feb 13 1996
Last Modified:Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:996
Total number of notes:7139

209.0. "Rhiannon" by VOLGA::E_FINKELSEN () Tue Apr 12 1988 18:52

    This name is being discussed under the heading of Rowena so I thought
    I would give it it's own note.
    
    Does anyone know a Rhiannon personally?  
    
    It is pronounced Ree ann nun...or...Ree ann on (same thing to me)
    
    I loved it after seeing it in a novel about a welsh girl.  In the
    book it says there is a "myth" about a witch by the name of Rhiannon
    so they automatically became suspicious of her.  (superstitious)
    
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209.1Rhiannon/RhiannaGEMINI::FROMENTYou want it WHEN??????Wed Apr 27 1988 19:096
    Don't know any Rhiannons personally, but have run across a couple
    on my children's school rosters.  My cousin's daughter is named
    Rhianna, shortened because they felt it sounded better with their
    last name.  I've run across a couple other Rhianna's (Rheana) too.
    I think they were all born when the Fleetwood Mack song was popular.
    
209.2RaeanneCURIUM::PRGSECSh*t Happens!Wed Apr 27 1988 19:421
    I have a friend who's name is Raeanne.  It's different but nice.
209.3No need to burn the steak!KAOFS::S_BROOKMany hands make bytes workThu Apr 28 1988 15:296
    According to "Facts on File's Dictionary of First Names", Rhiannon
    is indeed Welsh and means nymph or goddess.  No witching overtones
    were indicated!
    
    stuart
    
209.4one babyMSD36::STHILAIREIt's a weird life, ya knowThu Apr 28 1988 19:453
    About 4 yrs. ago I worked with a woman at DEC Shrewsbury who named
    her baby daughter Rhiannon.  
    
209.5At last a Rhiannon.WARDER::RUDDICKTue May 31 1988 14:4616
    Yes I know someone with the name Rhiannon, my sister. She really
    likes it, but unfortunatly she gets called Nan most of the time
    by the family. This is just something that has stuck with her since
    childhood, because as a baby she could not quite get her teeth around
    the name, and pronounced it Naninon.
    
    As to the origin of the name, I know that in the books that the
    Welsh use for their O Levels (Equivilent to Shakespere ) She was
    a white Witch, which I think is what the Fleetwood Mac song was about.
    
    I'd be interested if anyone Knows the name of the book that the
    Welsh use, I think it begins with M.
    
    
    Julia Ruddick
    Julia Ruddick
209.6yCIPIC2::CARIGNANWed Feb 15 1989 14:474
    My middle name...named after my grandmother!!!
    
    
    Christine
209.729376::DUBOISLove makes a familyWed Dec 27 1989 18:133
There is a singer by this name.

     Carol