lpetrich
Contributor
Though she is not yet a President and may never be, Kamala Harris has a very unusual first name by President standards, though her last name is much more typical. So I decided to research the names of US Presidents and Vice Presidents with the help of The Meaning and History of First Names - Behind the Name and Wiktionary
List of presidents of the United States and
List of vice presidents of the United States
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- Germanic: William (Bill), Herbert, Henry (Harry), Richard (Dick), Gerald, Ronald, Elbridge, Charles, Hubert, Walter, Albert (Al)
- English last names: Millard, Franklin, Rutherford, Grover, Woodrow, Warren, Dwight, Lyndon, Garrett, Nelson, Danforth (Dan) (mostly with Germanic elements)
- Gaelic: Donald
- Latin: Martin, Chester, Calvin, Alben
- Greek: George, Andrew, Theodore, Schuyler, Spiro
- Aramaic: Thomas
- Hebrew: John, James (Jimmy), Zachary, Abraham, Ulysses, Benjamin, Joseph (Joe), Aaron, Daniel, Levi, Adlai, Michael (Mike)
- Punic: Hannibal
- Arabic: Barack
- Sanskrit: Kamala
- Dutch: Van Buren, Roosevelt
- German: Eisenhower, Rockefeller
- Norwegian: Mondale
- Gaelic: Buchanan, Kennedy, Reagan
- Welsh? Latin? : Arthur
- Luo (Nilotic: Eastern Sudanic): Obama
- Jefferson = son of Jeffrey (Geoffrey - from Germanic through Old French)
- Jackson = son of Jack (Jacob - from Hebrew)
- Harrison (Harris) = son of Harry (Henry - from Germanic)
- Nixon = son of Nick (Nicholas - from Greek)
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