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AFL footballer Liam Picken, and his partner Annie Nolan, welcomed twin girls in the autumn and have named their daughters Delphi and Cheska. The twins have only recently left hospital, as they were born premature. Delphi and Cheska are baby sisters to Malachy, aged 2 – Malachy’s birth was announced on the blog.
Liam has been playing Australian rules football professionally since 2009, and has always been with the Western Bulldogs. He is the son of Billy Picken, who played for Sydney and Collingwood in the 1970s and ’80s, and the cousin of Jonathan Brown, who is captain of the Brisbane Lions. Liam recently played his 100th game for the Western Bulldogs, and walked out through the banner with Malachy.
Delphi is a Greek place name, the ancient site of the Delphic Oracle to Apollo; its name means “womb”, and it may have begun as a worship site to the Earth Goddess. Later it was connected to “dolphin”.
Cheska is short for Francesca. It is perhaps best known from blogger and PR rep Cheska Hull, who starred on reality TV series, Made in Chelsea.
(Photo shows Liam and Annie with Malachy)
Waltzing More Than Matilda 
I love cheska. I knew a cheska who had very alternative parents and they said the name meant ‘nature’ and not only came from francesca but also the chuska mountains in colorado. It had native american indian influence. It is cute that delphi is a place too.
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Wow, such beautiful, interesting names! Especially love hearing twin names that are a bit different.
We’ve had some interesting twin girls this year on the blog – Skeeter and Maple were also different.
Ah yes, I remember them! They really were fantastic too 🙂 My favourite “real life” twin names (gorgeous little toddlers, the kids of family friends) are Pax and Inca 🙂
Great combo. Helena Rubinstein, who during her early career, lived in Australia, had a sister called Ceska (that spelling) who I believe lived here too.
There was an English movie star called Delphi Lawrence – I’ve always wondered why Delphi didn’t catch on because it’s so light and pretty. Apart from Delphine, the closest to it I’ve seen in Oz is Delvene, the name of a ’70s starlet, Delvene Delaney. But that seems to have been a one-off.
Thanks so much for that fascinating information about Delphi and Ceska.
Delphi is such a pretty name, I can only think it didn’t take off because place names as names weren’t that big before. And Delphi and Ceska is such an imaginative, non-matchy twin set.
If you read the newspaper article linked to at the bottom (photo credit), you will see that Annie Nolan is rather a name nerd! 🙂
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