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HelpRe: Charlize
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Year, I'm not sure if her name was made up (her father is Charles right?) or if it's a legitimate name..
Cassie...girlfriend to Cameron and mum to Hayley Anne, Skye Louise, Nathan James and Blake Robert
Cassie...girlfriend to Cameron and mum to Hayley Anne, Skye Louise, Nathan James and Blake Robert
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The BtN entry implies that it's used as a name at least sometimes in South Africa, where Theron is from. In submitted names, there are Hannelize, Delize, Marlize as SA names.
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That kind of combination name is found useful by many Afrikaans-speaking parents who have a strong tradition of naming children after the grandparents but want to avoid having a kid who shares a name with numerous cousins. Or they merge their own names - I know a Janine who married a Rudolf and had a daughter Runine.
I don't know if Ms Theron was named after a Charles and an Elize, or if her parents just followed the merger tradition because they liked the sound of it.
I don't know if Ms Theron was named after a Charles and an Elize, or if her parents just followed the merger tradition because they liked the sound of it.
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Ah, I hadn't thought of it as a combination name because I don't think of -ize as a typical name ending. Is Elize a common name there?
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Very common! Certainly it's been in use in the Afrikaans community for the reasons I gave - almost Elizabeth but not quite. I know a woman in her late 60s whose names are Elisabeth Deborah, and she always goes by Elise; another friend is in her 40s and was named Elize Antoinette. In both cases, it's a tweaked family name.
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