Talk:Maegth

RFV discussion: August–October 2012
Supposedly a female given name. I see absolutely no relevant hits on Google Books for "dear Maegth", "named Maegth", "called Maegth", "her Maegth", "Ms/Mrs/Miss Maegth", "love Maegth", "inauthor:Maegth". There are also no relevant hits on Usenet, AFAICT. - -sche (discuss) 19:42, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * If you search Images for "Maegth", and page forward, you will eventually begin to see Facebook titles (Maegth Valonia, Maegth Efia, etc.) of lede with the name. Leasnam (talk) 20:03, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * On the one hand, if people with that name exist, their births should be public record (and may also have been announced in papers); it's also possible they did newsworthy things and got in papers for that. On the other hand, when I search on Facebook, I see only the 2 distinct individuals whose pictures appear in that Google Images search plus 2 others, and a handful of other people with the last name Maegth (which is also otherwise unattested), and people have been known to use fake names on Facebook ... and I see nothing relevant when I search Google News and Google Scholar for "Maegth". So I'm not willing to assume it's attested until there's more solid evidence. I'm currently trying to see if any of the baby-name websites make claims about how common a name it is for children born in particular years, which would at least imply the existence of birth records. - -sche (discuss) 20:28, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I see what you're saying. Well, personally, I'v never met anyone named "Maegth", and were I to, I wouldn't think the name was weird, just uncommon. It kinda sounds like Megan. Leasnam (talk) 20:41, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably not evidence we could use, but a search on ancestry.com (I'm subscribed to the site, so I tried it, just out of curiosity) for an exact match to "Maegth" as a first name found no hits- and their database includes birth, marriage and death records for the UK, the US, Australia, and other countries. They don't have as good coverage for the most recent decades, and the older records are transcribed from paper and microform sources, so it's not conclusive. Searching for a non-exact match turned up millions of hits, but anything with an "M" followed by an "a" and ending with anything remotely like "th" is included (for example: "Massoud"). This type of permissive search can be very useful when there's other information to narrow down the scope, but for our purposes, it's pretty much useless. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:03, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking. - -sche (discuss) 07:51, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Oddly enuff, I look'd about a bit and found Maegth as a last name (seemingly French!). My guess is that the last name isn't rooted on the meaning of maiden but one other meanings ... but that is only a guess. There's even a maegth.com. It is a conundrum that babyname sites list it as a girl's name that seemingly isn't noted but then they list a lot of odd names beginning with "Mae". However, it is listed and listed as meaning "maiden" which would be befitting for a given name. Now, I'm somewhat gewiss that they aren't only throwing words out. Somewhere, whether in life or fiction, someone must have noted these odd names. I would think it would hav been more of way to talk to a yung lady as title like one might say the "maid Marian", one might hav said "maegth Marian". This could hav been an oral thing. But that is all guesswork. I'm only throwing out how it might hav work'd its way onto a list of baby names. However, the question becomes, do we want an entry that has maegth with the meaning of maiden in case someone decides to verify the meaning found on a babyname site? (It is one of the meanings of the word and ties this to the other rfv.) Further, do we want to say that it is also a last name and listed as a first name? Or do we even care about names on Wiktionary? --AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! (talk) 13:44, 16 September 2012 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 22:58, 1 October 2012 (UTC)