The Beauty of Names

Miss Angola, Márcia Marília Menezes I've been seeing the beautiful costumes from the Miss Grand International Pageant all over Twitter and my curiosity was piqued and of course, I had to check out the names! There are fifty-nine contestants so I decided to chop this post up into two parts. Let me know your thoughts on these fascinating monikers! Hygerta Hidri (Albania) Márcia Marília Menezes (Angola) Florencia Melanie de Palo (Argentina) Kristina Goharik Ayanian (Armenia) Angolina Amores (Australia) MJ Chowdhury (Bangladesh) Zomkey Tenzin (Belgium) Eloísa Gutiérrez Rendón (Bolivia) Lorena Gonçalves Rodrigues (Brazil) Sothida Pokimtheng (Cambodia) Olga Bykadorova (Canada) Vanessa Camila Francisca Echevarria Maizares (Chile) Mariana Jaramillo (Colombia) Adriana Moya Alvarado (Costa Rica) Geysel Vaillant (Cuba) Kimberley Fabiola Fernandes (Curacao) Barbora Aglerová (Czech Republic) Stephanie Mercedes Medina (Dominican Republic) Andrea Victoria Aquilera (Ecuador) Shahenaz Alaa Dabous (...

Géraldine of Albania Queen  Géraldine of Albania was born Countess  Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga  Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Appony to Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony   and Gladys Virginia Stewart , an American woman from Virginia. She married King Zog I of Albania , who was born Ahmet Muhtar Zogolli. They had one child: Leka, " Leka, Crown Prince of Albania "; at birth he was called Prince Skander

Jessica Chastain (left) with Shira Haas in "The Zookeeper's Wife" Bora - Recently my father met a woman from Albania. Her name was Alba, but she also revealed her sister's name - Bora. She explained that it meant "snow", and it was chosen for her because she was born during the month of January. Shira - I saw "The Zookeeper's Wife" just a while ago (I highly recommend it!) and one of the most fascinating characters was played by a young woman from Israel by the name of Shira Haas. Shira means "singing" or "poetry" in Hebrew. Efrat - Another actress in the film is another Israeli actress named Efrat Dor. Efrat is the Hebrew form of Biblical Ephrath, meaning "fruitful place". Ephrath was not only the name of one of Caleb's wives, it was also the name of the place where Rachel is buried. Iddo - Actor Iddo Goldberg was born in Israel but his family moved to London when he was ten. Before starring...