A Breakdown Of The U.S. Presidents' Names
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Politics aside, what's your favourite presidential name? Ulysses Grant is James Bond villain levels of awesome.
Andrew Jackson
Woodrow is a really amusing name.
Calvin Coolidge
William Henry Harrison was the 9th President of the United States, and is known for being at the time the oldest President to be elected. General Harrison was the first whig President and gave a 2 hour inauguration speech like a chop, in the rain, without a coat. Got pneumonia, died 30 days into his Presidency and was succeeded by John Tyler
you should have included Dick Cheney, who was Acting President for 4 hours across 8 years thanks to the invocation of the 25th amendment
Thanks for making a video specifically for me, and shout out to the Jameses.
I'm the third like
@@guillemedina7908 ok
Hi Mr beat
Hi sir
The video was great. Just because the worst dude on CZcams, Mr Beatoff, liked your video doesn’t mean it was bad.
Well William Henry Harrison is famous for 1) having the longest inauguration speech and 2) having the shortest presidency.
The only thing he accomplished as President was to die and make John Tyler the first VP to become President. The Constitution wasn’t clear about whether the VP only became the “acting” President or the real one, so Tyler set the precedent (near-homophone alert!) by being officially sworn in. Some Congressional leaders and pundits of the day disagreed, and called Tyler “His Accidency.”
The shortest Presidential surnames are POLK, Taft, and Ford.
The only Presidential surnames with the same length as the number of their presidency are Jackson (7th) and Van Buren (8th), the Boron and Carbon of Presidents.
The only surname ending in a non-silent vowel, other than “y,” is Obama (Fillmore, Pierce, and Coolidge end in silent “e,” McKinley ends in the diphthong “ey” pronounced as “ee,” and Kennedy ends in “y” pronounced as “ee”).
Presidents named Ronald and Donald are always trouble.
@@allanrichardson1468 A US Army fort on the west coat of central Florida was named for WHH in 1841. It is long gone, remembered by a bronze plaque at the site. His name survives in Ft. Harrison Blvd. and the FH Hotel in Clearwater, FLA.
Proof you don't have to work hard or do anything to achieve something
One thing of note that occurred during his brief Presidency was the US Supreme Court issuing its final ruling in the Amistad case. An (Oscar-winning?) movie was even made about the whole affair. Look it up on CZcams.
Darrel Jones That is something positive. I’m sure WHH could have accomplished more notable goals had he not died so soon into his term.
William Henry Harrison is known for 2 things: having the longest inaugural speech of any president (~1000 words), and for catching pneumonia and dying after a month because he insisted on delivering said speech without a coat.
Ryan Cauffman The poor weather at his inauguration actually had little to do with his catching pneumonia.
Ryan Cauffman, That’s so sad, probably had lots of ambition and plans as president, but you know disease back then!
Aymara Fan It really is. His wife actually never spent a day in the White House, she was still at home packing when he died!
Apparently it was actually the water in the White House which was very dirty at the time. There’s a CZcams video about it somewhere
Was the video made while he was in office?!
I thought Drumpf was just used to mock him in the most kindergarten way possible. I had no idea that his grandfather actually had that name.
Many Americans of German descent anglicized their last name because they were discriminated against during WW1 because of their German heritage.
he was actually born as Orange B. Man
@@FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog I know. This was especially prevalent with Polish immigrants. I just didn't think that specifically Trump's name came from Drumpf because I've only ever seen it used by people throwing a tantrum at him.
Me too.
@@deldarel pp
“Harry S. Truman, what’s the s stand for?”
“Yes”
Too bad his folks couldn't decide. Shippe and Solomon are decent enough names.
@Maximus Yagdulas if his folks would've picked both, he would be the first president to have 2 middle names. Harry Solomon Shipp Truman
The "S" stands for nothing, stands for his two grandfathers, Solomon and Shipp. His parents couldn't decide his middle name, so It was just an S.
> I for one can't tell you a single thing that William Henry Harrison did during his presidency
He died.
'Leslie Lynch King' would not have been a wonderful name for a civil rights era President.
Not all presidents believed in civil rights
😂😂literally dying
lmao
You mean lynhc
holy shit dude lmfao
Make a video explaining the origins of military ranking names. Or more specifically why the rank "Colonel" is pronounced "Kernell"
Good video idea
@@jaojao1768 I'm glad you think so. I hope name explain agrees as well
Interestingly, colonel in spanish is coronel, which is pronounced as it is spelled
Yoooo good idea!
Daniel Butka Just as some English speakers have made futile attempts over the years to get everyone to accept “phonetic spelling” (the two leading shorthand systems, Gregg and Pitman, were the most successful, although stenographers transcribed their phonetically spelled notes back into the standard spelling system), the Spanish Academy made phonetic spelling mandatory, and with a king to enforce it, they made it stick.
When I saw Ronald and Donald the only thing I thought of was
Ronald mcdonald
XD
eggs dee
Now I can't unhear it 🤣
Well Trump loves burgers and fries and was a fan of Ronald Reagan, so it works
Makes sense since they were both clowns
I didn’t know Drumpf was ever a real name; I thought it was just a nickname people used to insult him.
His grandfather changed the name to trump to sound more "American" so that he wouldn't be bullied for having a german name, so you weren't wrong with the part about insult
I call him Bonald Frump and was pleasantly surprised by Drumpf.
I love the surname 'Trump,' it sounds badass. It sounds like the name of a god or king or emperor. I don't think there were other presidents with verbs as their surnames.
@@fduranthesee I don't know, to me it sounds kind of comical.
In Germany I have never seen the name Drumpf and would also sound like a name to mock somebody with here too.
You don't know anything about William Henry Harrison because he only served for a month
I only know him from the Mediocre Presidents song from The Simpsons- "there's William Henry Harrison- 'I died in thirty days!'"
He sure didn't like the native Americans. He killed Tecumseh I'm sure, least they were fighting against each other in the war of 1812.
I recall he gave a three hour inaugural speech in the rain and died of pneumonia a month later.
turns out it's a bad idea to ramble on for 3 hours at your inauguration in 15 degree weather
No shit so many people in the comments have said that
There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes,
There's William Henry Harrison.
I DIED IN 30 DAYS!!!
Firebeast Gaming IT WAS 31 DAYS
6:55 President W.H. Harrison was known for a few things, the main one being dying.
1. At 68 years and 23 days, President William Henry Harrison was the oldest president-elect to be sworn in as President of the United States until the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, 140 years later.
2. President Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address in American history, at 8,445 words and nearly two hours to deliver. The day of his inauguration was a cold and wet day, and the president-elect chose not to wear gloves, a hat, or an overcoat.
3. After catching a cold after being caught in a storm without cover, President Harrison developed pneumonia March 28th, 1841. On April 4th, 1841, President Harrison succumbed to his illness, becoming the first President in American history to die while serving as President. This also made John Tyler the first Vice President in American history to become President due to the death of his predecessor. William Henry Harrison still holds the record for the shortest presidential tenure in American history, lasting just 31 days.
Actually it is a myth that the illness was caused by his speech in the cold. This has been long disproven, but it is certainly "fun" to propagate. A) his illness didn't occur until sometime later (he had some time in perfect health afterwards, much longer than the gestation period of the illness,) and B) Modern Science has easily proven that colds, flu, fever, viruses, etc etc are not actually caused by being out in the cold. While being in the freezing or wet weather can give you a temporary runny nose, you did not actually catch a "cold". In fact, the reason why people catch a cold or flu more often in the winter is because they spend much more time inside, where you are in closer contact with other people and warm surfaces which are a breeding ground for virus and bacteria. People who spend most of their time outside in the winter are, in fact, less likely to catch a cold (they are more likely to get hypothermia, of course, but not the type of illness Harrison had.)
@@MichaelSidneyTimpson Michael Timpson I never suggested that the speech led to his death, I'm aware of the myth. His wife was ill before the inauguration and thus stayed in Ohio, I personally believe he became ill because of her. Historically and officially, however, his illness is tied to a torrential downpour in which he was caught without cover.
@@lordpuppydudley Do we know why he won the election? And did his VP win the next election?
Polk, George Bush Sr. and Jr. also have 4 letter surnames in addition to Taft and Ford as you mentioned. For a total of 5.
“...who, funnily enough, both became president when their predecessors were assassinated.”
*funnily enough*
Did anyone else notice no president has had a last name starting with S, despite S being the most popular first letter for last names (it helps that S can precede so many other letters)? Or first names either (excluding Cleveland, as he didn't call himself by his real first name of Stephen)
I am from the future, and I can tell that you’re wrong. Sanders is one of the two presidents with a surname starting with S.
@@freeunderratedmusic4273 Who's the other?
Aaron O Donoghue Smith. There will be a Smith in the distant future. Trust me.
@@freeunderratedmusic4273 I'm surprised there hasn't been a Smith so far.
Aaron O Donoghue no! I did not notice!
You should do a video about the two Gailicia´s (the one on Spain and the other on the East Europe)
There is one in eastern europe aswell. Former poland now ukraine
@@Cyprian96 Ups, my mistake, i already corrected it now
@@Cyprian96 Isn't it split between the two Countries now?
he talks about it in the video on portugal
@@LangThoughts yeah maybe, not sure
translation the (old) Dutch names in modern spelling:
Roosevelt -Rozenveld. Field of roses
Van Buuren - Van buren. The neighbors
Hoover - (maybe from) Hoever. Howfar
2:34 King is such a cool last name. He should have kept it.
Mr. King
King, Leslie
Leslie the Lynhc King
Leslie Lynches the King
EthanBrown great name for a civil rights era president
Leslie the Lynch-King
Be really interesting to say out loud as well - President King
Wouldn't it be LYNCH??
Sometime from now you should do U.S. Vice Presidents!
Omg yes please do!
@@sarahandrewson2442
He should actually do state governors, because there are tons of those. While with VPs, there were some that became president, so the list could be shorter.
@Maximus Yagdulas
Huh?
@Maximus Yagdulas
Is Colfax a name? Because, without looking it up, I wasn't able to tell.😓
@Maximus Yagdulas
I haven't, it's just that you quoted it that's why I was confused.
you are awesome, this videos are phenomenal, i am full of joy if i see that you have posted something new, and everytime i have that feeling that i can learn something, thanks to your videos !
Van Buren - Sounds Dutch
Eisenhower - Sounds German
Obama - Sounds African
The Futból Follower only a ignorant person would say ‘sounds african’ Africa is a continent not a nation with similar surname s
2 of my ancestors who left he south for Montana, post civil war were both named after US presidents. Ulysses Grant, and George Washington.
Their brother was named Lafayette after the Frenchmen who helped the patriots.
Interesting my two of my x3 great grandparents moved to Montana after the civil war and they were from Georgia after he came back from the war
@2:35 "LYNHC" should have been "LYNCH",just saying as this video was fun to watch...especially when you gasp for breath when saying the names.
Great job again! Think I learned more watching this video than I did in my American Presidents class in college.
William Henry Harrison is just a huge meme :3
Mad video man, loves it! 👍 one of the funnest ‘Explain videos I’ve seen you make!
There’s Taylor and Tyler, there’s Filmore and there’re Hayes. There’s William Henry Harrison. I died in thirty days!
Alec Avdakov it was 31 days
thanks for being unbiased! @Name Explain
That's got to be confusing on a kid getting a completely different first name. I have a friend whose parents decided to change the spelling of her name when she was young. She still accidentally spells it the old way on occasion.
Yeah, my late father had a cousin, who decided to change her given first name to another name. However, my father, having used her first given name for 60 years, never got used to the new name. That was quite a mess.
George Washington is 16 letters. Rutherford b Hayes is also 16 letters.
Covered every corner. Great job Patrick!
awesome video!
2:13 "Let's stick with Bill Clinton for a moment"
Do we gotta?
No, we don't, if we do we will all die
Yes
@@leatherfaceparody3653 Or end up like Monika.......
Pres John Tyler has 2 grandsons still alive! Of course his own sons weren't born till the Pres was about 80yrs old. Then the children didn't have kids of their own till around the same age!!
I wish someone would do a video like that about Brazilian presidents.
Yeah brazil is often forgotten as also an immigrant country, its almost a second USA... if i remember correctly brazil had presidents with many backgrounds: portuguese (duh), german, bulgarian, italian, lebanese, czech, roma, spanish...
Also i cant speak about brazilian presidents with mentioning Cafe, who names their child like this?
William Henry Harrison has the longest name and inauguration speech but the shortest presidency.
I like how you took long breaths between names.
there’s actually a mountain called Mount Obama but i doubt its affiliated to barack himself
There's also Obama, Japan
Washington got his name from where his ancestors lived, then the two places are named after him
I always remember James Buchanan because Dot (from the Anamaniacs) roasted him. “Four _long years_ with James Buchanan.” (In the Presidents song)
1:02 taking a serious deep breath
You should make a video about naming conventions around the world. Or you could make several videos, one for every continent's naming conventions.
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In Ireland, Hayes originated as a Gaelic polygenetic surname "O hAodha", meaning descendant of Aodh fire or of Aed, an Irish mythological god. Septs in most counties anglicised "O hAodha" to "Hayes". In County Cork, it became "O'Hea".
Sorry mate, I believe there is a mistake : The family name HOOVER, the president got if from is great-great-great grandfather John M. Hoover Senior (1760-1831) who was of German and Swiss-German ancestry. The family name in origin was HUBER, a very common German language family name who was automatically translated to Hoover in the US. So the name come from Germany/Switzerland and has nothing to do with the Netherlands ... www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Hoover-Family-Tree-328 here is the proof the family name was from Hirzel, Canton Zürich, Switzeland : www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Huber-Family-Tree-594
2:37 I guess it's a testament to your proof-reading that the only typo I've spotted on a video of yours is "Lynhc"! :P
Sonny O'Cad, Omg Hahahah
1:06 I like how old names get blurrier and blurrier when new names are added.
6:41 In short last names, you forgot Polk.
Great video. Just wondering, what do you think of the new prince being named Archie?
Such a soothing voice
Great video! Also, now you can add Joseph/Joe (the latter is the shortest presidential first name), Robinette, and Biden to the list, with Biden being an Anglo-Saxon name that appears to have origins among button makers in England, so occupational and of English origin. Also, 'Joe Biden' only has eight letters, so he now has the shortest presidential name!
Also, 5:44 - "YES I KNOW THE CLETS WHERE NOT FROM IRELAND BUT IT'S JUST FOR REPRESENTATION"
Two typos in a row with 'clets where'. Good job Patrick! lmfao
Wait, how did you just pronounce Barack?
@2:41 lynch is misspelled
The whole thing about president Trump really being the 44th is what I keep telling people and they say that I am mad (they all don’t know who Grover Cleveland is anyway). I also said the same thing about Obama really only being the 43rd and they thought I was doing the “He’s not my president” thing and called me racist. You know it’s bad when a nation with the general consensus doesn’t know their own history.
Aymara Fan
When I tell people there were really only 44 presidents I expect them to assume that I’m butthurt over Trump and not counting him, but they all recall Grover Cleveland.
Another thing why Grant changed his name to U.S Grant (besides the error) is because he hates how his birthname is shortened to "H.U.G"
(considering he's a military man)
very interesting
Imagine if Grover Cleveland went by his first name, Stephen Cleveland would have been such a cool name
The knox and Polk of James knox polk has a significant meaning, Knox is a Scottish surname which means hump or hillock and polk is the short form of pollock.
If they didn’t want Eisenhower to get mixed up with his father, why did they name him David to begin with? That’s my question.
Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant, but a West Point error caused him to change it.
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Allegedly Ulysses Grant was so painfully shy that he was too embarrassed to correct the error.
Nice video as usual ^.^ is it strange making a video on US history being a British person, or does it not even faze you since you seem to enjoy most history?
I'm American born, and at least where I'm from they didn't teach us much about American history except in my primary years/middle school (ages 5-13). I suppose I could have taken a US history course in high school but it was optional at my school. Regardless, the school system sucks and I have retained more from learning things myself
It’s sad how many times I’ve gone through this whole process on my own
i thought drumph was just a meme
I thought Grant changed his name to Ulysses S. Grant to avoid having to initials being HUG (Hiram Ulysses Grant)
I heard he got it changed when he applied to West Point. That it was a clerical error he just stuck with because it sounded more gentlemanly to him.
He always took the easy route so when they made an error in his name (which would've taken months to redo) he just decided to change it.
Ulysses is the latin version of Odyseus, which makes it without a qouestion the best.
I have a newfound respect for William Henry Harrison, such great foresight!
If I become President assuming it hasn't already happened I will be the first Mexican-American President as well as having the first surname of "S."
Can you also be the president to bring back the beard?
@@cossaizy6309 I don't know? Would I look good in one.
@@josestarks8892 youre mexican so probably yes
The drumpf Name according to many German historians actually never existed, it may have been a typo at Ellis island as Donald’s ancestor from as far back as the 1600’s was named trump, not drumpf
Did you misspell Lynch?
i'm related to Martin Van Buren [great grandfather was my ancestor] and Buchanan and the Roosevelt's
Cool.
I had to double take when I heard the music, Sam and Max is the best!
This should be a web service. Type in names with variations and get all these stats back.
HouseofNames.com already does much of that for last names. And BabyNames.com for first names.
1:45 I can hear someone saying "Wow! What are the chances!?
W.H. Harrison was an American General most known for fighting wars in Ohio and Indianna against Native Americans, also known as Old Tippacannoo(sp) for the battle of Tippacannoo(sp). He was at a advanced age for the 1840s when he was elected and had been mocked for his age, and made the longest inaguration address to date, and did so not wearing a coat despite a very cold March in Washington, resulting in him contracting pneumonia and dying, he has the shortest term as President.
1:21 I did not know this. I'm surprised.
Where did you get the idea that Hoover is of Dutch origin? Herbert Hoover's descended from a man of Swiss-German descent called Andreas Huber, who immigrated in the 18th century and anglicized his name to Andrew Hoover. I believe the name Huber is occupational, that it refers to someone who farms a small parcel of land.
Good
According to wiki Pierce was not if French origin but "was a sixth-generation descendant of Thomas Pierce, who had moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from Norwich, Norfolk, England in about 1634."
This video finally completes the destiny of William Henry Harrison.
Actually didn’t know the Harrison’s were related! Cool fact!
Shoutout to William Henry Harrison's long con to be the last president mentioned in this video
Trump, Regal and Truman are my favorites president surnames
Rip in piece William Henry Harrison
Presidents by syllables(not including middle names)
2 syllables: James Polk, both George Bush
3 syllables: Both John Adams, James Monroe, John Tyler, Franklin Pierce, Hiram Grant, James Garfield, William Taft, Warren Harding, Leslie King/Gerald Ford, James Carter, William King, Donald Trump
4 syllables: George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, William Harrison, James Buchanan, Rutherford Hayes, Chester Arthur, Stephen Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, William Clinton, Barack Obama
5 syllables: Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt
6 syllables: Benjamin Harrison, David Eisenhower
I find it interesting that nearly all of the American Presidents have had some sort of family name (father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle, great-uncle, brother, mother's maiden name) in their own name, whether it was their first name or middle name. By my count (I could be mistaken), only George Washington, Franklin Pierce, and Grover Cleveland seem not to have had one.
Grover is his middle name. His first name is Stephen.
Ali LordOfTheSkies You are correct. Named in honor of Stephen Grover, the first pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell where Cleveland’s father was pastor at the time of his birth
**When there are so many patreons you can’t even read all of their names**
According to wikipedia Carter is not of French origin: "Carter is a descendant of English immigrant Thomas Carter, who settled in Virginia in 1635."
Teddy Roosevelt and FDR were not cousins but instead distant relatives. Eleanor Roosevelt who was Teddy’s niece married Franklin Roosevelt, but kept her surname obviously
What’s the plural form of James? “Jameses” just looks so weird to me, and was first auto corrected into “Japanese”. If we treat it like “focus” (center points of an oval), then the plural would be “Jamii”, which is even crazier. I also thought about “Jimmies”, but don’t bring up ice cream.
Some say that we have 46 due to 1 president winning one election and then losing the next and then after that winning. (Not sure the name, but it'd be pretty cool if we actually have like 46 presidents here in the USA).
Patrick, mine is James Buchanan.
A propos of nothing whatsoever, my surname is Saxon derived, and the first Wrights in England built windmills, a job with a very limited future after people started using waterwheels. Nowadays there are more Wrights in Scotland and Ireland than in England.
It's just a theory by me, but maybe ''Eisenhower'' originated from the German word ''Eisenhauer'' wich isn't reaky a word used, but could mean something like blacksmith (directly translated it would mean ''iron slapper'')
But that's just a theorie a...fil- history theory.
List of repeating names of presidents and how I feel about them:
* James: Awesome, underrated, severely underrated, abysmal, lost potential, better in retirement
* John: Important and fascinating(both), meh, awesome
* William: Not applicable, underrated, underrated, fine
* George: Awesome, decent, terrible
0:17 who else noticed he spelled Franklin wrong. Now there is Franklyn
2:37 Lynch is misspelled.
Make a video about why there are 2 Iberias and Albanias. Both of them in the ancient Caucasus and then the modern day Iberia with Spain and Portugal and the modern day Albania in the Balkans.