An overview of House Name

House names will help in giving a personal touch to your house and will make you feel like you are living in a home and not a house. Apart from that it will also give an edge over other houses.

House Names during olden times

Although there is no proof, people believe that even Neanderthals used to keep House name for their caves. Humans have kept House name of their villas and houses since ancient times. Going back in time, the patricians Romans, Babylonian and Assyrian also use to keep interesting House name. As a matter of fact, the only way of finding out a house in Britain in olden times was with the help their House name. The trend of numbering the houses came into effect only after the postage act of 1765. the house name of the earlier house where quite descriptive and reflected their family history.

House Names till the 19th Century

By the end of 12th century, house name became more ordinary and people started making use of different people with whom they are highly inspired or are close to them for house name. Some of the famous house name was London home of bishop and Arundel house where earl of Arundel lived.

Most of the people belonging to upper class had big homes and often use to gine house name for that. Such house name was generally single word like broadlands, pemberly or Belmont etc. even the authors of various story books used to give nice names to the houses. With the increase in the economy of the countries, people started developing building big town homes and started attaching suffixes to their house names like villa, lodge, house etc. by the end of 19th century some of the people also use to give names of their house on various trees.

Types of House Names in 20th Century

With the beginning of 20th century, more and more people started buying their own houses and started giving very subtle names to their houses. The number of people using grand names reduced to a great extent as it used sound very silly with city houses. People started giving personal names to their houses by 1930s which was quickly followed by the names of the residents itself. The trend of giving a combined name of the residents started soon. For instance Christopher and Emily became "christem". Some people also started referring house names on their financial status post Second World War.

What is so special about House Name?

Many of the cultures used to give great importance to house names. During ancient times people used surnames for house names as it used to give them a sense of pride. They were a way to mark your social presence and also the status of your family in the society. In some rural areas house was one of the way to identify the class of that family. On the other hand, in Britain house names where used so that it made easy for the people to find their house while some use them just to stand out from their neighbors houses.