Thursday, February 24, 2011

Name of the week

Atticus

Pronounced: AT-a-kuss

Atticus is primarily a male name of Latin origin that means "from Attica". Attica is the region of Greece which contains Athens, the capital city.

Famous figures with this name include...
The character Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
Daniel Baldwin and Isabella Hoffmann named their son Atticus (now 13).

 Atticus was also the name of a number of ancient Greek philosophers and writers; it was also the name of an early Archbishop of Constantinople.

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