Country music singer, Felicity Urquhart, and her husband, musician and producer Glen Hannah, welcomed their first child recently – a baby girl named Tia Joy.
Felicity and Glen interpret her name to mean “princess of joy”, and Felicity notes that names referring to happiness run in her family.
“Joy was my dad’s mum’s name. I have an Aunty Gay, and my name means happiness. Joy is also a significant name in Australian country music with the late, great Slim Dusty’s wife Joy McKean – she’s an amazing talent and a beautiful woman.”
Felicity has been an award-winning country singer for 15 years, and hosts a country music show on ABC radio. She and Glen married in Vanuatu in 2009.
(Story from Digital Spy, August 18 2011; photo from countryragepage.com)
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Exactly Elea!!! Very few men are given names that mean “princess”! 😀
I did some poking around, and found that no meaning is known for the Egyptian name Tiya. As the meanings to Egyptian names are generally understood, it’s thought that Tiya must be a foreign name, or else a short form of some longer name. It seems to have the name element “come back” in it.
Don’t you just love it when people scramble etymology round to make it fit their purpose? It’s like Suri all over again.
Personally, given that it has such a nice familial meaning to the couple, I think Joy would have been nice up front in the first name spot.
Oooo that’s a broad stretch of the imagination to get ‘princess’ from Tia, isn’t it? Presumably because it is one version of the name of an Egyptian princess! But that’s like saying ‘Beatrice’ means princess. Oh well!
Yeah I know, silly – it’s given that meaning in the baby name sites online though, who variously claim it as either Greek or Egyptian.
I’d love to know what Princess Tiya’s name really did mean though; nobody can tell me.
It’s a name that seems to be claimed by a lot of different cultures; you could have a field day tracing this little name I think!
And the presumption is made even more bizarre by Princess Tia’s husband also being called Tia.