“My family is very into western clothes and rodeo culture,” she says. Haworth grew up on a ranch with horses and cows. Meanwhile, Lacey Haworth named her daughter Lucchese, pronounced Lou-Casey. “There are a handful of us around Utah County who we’re all named after the same woman with the made-up name,” Williams-Young says. Her mother and her mother’s roommate gave their daughters the middle name Marné. Marné Tuttle served as temple matron in the Provo Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1979-1982 during which time Williams-Young’s mother worked as a temple employee. The irony, of course, is the original name (without an accent) was in fact French to begin with. According to legend, Marné Whitaker Tuttle’s mother named her Marne (with no accent) after the French town on the frontlines of World War I, thinking Marne, which rhymes with barn, was a beautiful name.īut Marné disagreed, so she added the acute accent over the e, and pronounced it “Mar-nay.” “There is nothing more Utah to me than women of a certain generation trying make their names more French by putting accents places they shouldn’t be,” Williams-Young says.
Heather Marné Williams-Young is named after Marné Whitaker Tuttle. Or at least found a name unfamiliar to most people with a significant story behind it, like the stories of Utahns like Marné and Lucchese. Maybe I should have thrown caution to the wind and freestyled on my firstborn’s birth certificate. I had hoped to give my child a name truly unique, but still recognizable moniker. Ivy is now listed in the 100 most popular names for girls.Īs one of four Megs or Megans in my first grade class, I learned early on that there are benefits to a name that stands out. A week before she arrived Beyonce gave birth to her first daughter and named her Blue Ivy.
My husband and I finally landed on Ivy, and we were sure she would be the only Ivy in the nation. I wanted something traditional but unique, classic but rare. When I was pregnant with my first child, I spent months agonizing over the perfect name for our daughter. Fear that I failed when I named my own kids. They can’t make fun of us if we’re already making fun of ourselves!Īnd, sure, I’ve rolled my eyes with a smug sense of superiority at plenty of mothers calling to their children Zephyr and Maxson.īut, as with all holier-than-thou attitudes, mine has been rooted in fear. Those of us in the state are the first to laugh (albeit nervously) at this phenomenon. And then the names that seem completely made up or lifted from obscure “Star Trek” episodes (Atylee, Taeber, Macady, Taeg). The “traditional” names with never-before-seen spellings (Madolin, Madisyn, Madysen, Katharin, Saydee). Czarnecki’s list represents what I believe are the two types of names that qualify as distinctly Utahn.
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