The reasons why we give our son a name and not another can be endless. The only thing our reasons have in common with those of our neighbors is that they are perfect for us.
But the process of finding a name can be complicated, quite tedious and how we neglect can be terribly complicated. To help you in your search we bring you a selection of very special names, they are 13 girl names to remember 13 great women in history. Many of them have not received perhaps the recognition that their male counterparts received, but they were there and it is fair to remember them and why not, give the same name to our daughter.
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
Countess and daughter of Lord Byron. Soon he became interested in mathematics and logic. She defined herself as "scientific poet and metaphysical analyst." She was the inventor of a little pot that could calculate algebraic functions and store numbers that we now know by calculator. She is known as the first female programmer.
Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937) Cover photo
Adventurous and pilot. During her childhood, Amelia showed signs of a restless and bold personality, because she got involved in activities attributed to the boys: she climbed trees, slipped on a sled and shot rats with a rifle. He also had as a hobby gathering newspaper clippings of famous women who excelled in activities traditionally starring men. She became famous for her marks as a pilot and for being the first woman to attempt the first air travel around the world over the equator.
Carlota Corday (1768 - 1793)
He was one of the key characters of the French revolution, famous for killing Marat, a Jacobin.
Well, hopefully your daughter doesn't have to get to those extremes.
Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536)
She was Queen of England and is considered the first ambassador of history. She was one of the great patrons of Humanism and a friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam.
The book 'De institutione feminae christianae' by Juan Luis Vives, which defended women's right to education, was commissioned by 1528 and is dedicated to her.
Clara Campoamor (1881 - 1972)
If you are a woman you have to know that today you can vote thanks to her. She was one of the promoters of women's suffrage in Spain, achieved in 1931 and a convinced feminist.
Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921)
One of the greatest Spanish writers. In addition to novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic, playwright and poet, he fought for equal rights between men and women.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
An accident forces her to stay at home, which makes her start painting, she would become one of the most popular artists and women of the last century. He painted mostly self-portraits of surreal tint.
Manuela Malasaña (1791-1808)
He was one of the heroines and victims of the popular uprising of May 2 in Madrid against the French.
Maria Salomea Sklodowska (1867-1934)
Known worldwide as Maria Curie, a scientist of Polish origin and French nationalized pioneer in the study of radioactivity. It was the first person to receive two Nobel prizes in different specialties (physics and chemistry) and the first woman to occupy a teaching position at the University of Paris. Named the first chemical element she discovered, ** Polonium **, she also discovered the Radio with her husband. He founded the Curie Institute in Paris and in Warsaw, built the first mobile X-ray units of the First World War. She was the first woman to be buried with honors in the Pantheon of Paris on her own merits.
Olympe de Gouges (1748 - 1793)
Writer, playwright and philosopher who turned the world upside down by writing "Declaration of the rights of women and citizens," one of the first feminist texts that advocated for equal rights and female emancipation. For this reason it was guillotined.
Victoria Kent (1889-1987)
Lawyer and Spanish policy that introduced prison reforms in the system, besides being the first woman to intervene in a war council in Spain.
He dedicated himself to remodeling the Spanish prison system under the criterion that societies are obliged to recover the offender as an active person, and that prisons are the instrument for this. Following these guidelines, he eliminated the shackles, ordered the improvement of the inmates' food, allowed the freedom of worship in prisons, established permits for family reasons, closed 114 prisons for being in very bad conditions, ordered the construction of the new prison Sales women, in Madrid, in which there were no punishment cells, and created the Female Prison Corps, for women's prisons, and the Institute of Criminal Studies.
Rosa Parks (1913 - 2006)
On December 1, 1955, rosa Parks He refused to give his seat to a white man in the southern United States, igniting the spark that would lead to protests without violence in favor of the civil rights of African-Americans.
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012)
Neurologist and politician, dedicated his life to brain research discovering the neuronal growth factor, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986
