This Is How Wednesday Addams Got Her Name

As mentioned previously, the "Addams Family" franchise owes its origins to a cartoonist, Charles Addams, who grew up in Westfield, New Jersey, according to Showbiz Cheat Sheet. The town was full of Victorian mansions, giving Addams the idea for a cartoon family that lived in such a mansion. "The Addams Family" was born, and over the course of a few years most of his drawings of the family would wind up in the pages of The New Yorker.

The cartoon would inspire a TV series, according to The New York Times, which debuted the "classic" look now associated with the family and their characters, which was followed by a short-lived animated series, then two blockbuster movies, a Broadway show, and an animated film.

In the cartoon, Gomez and Mortician Addams' children, Pugsley and Wednesday, didn't have names, according to the New York Times, although whether or not Addams had names for them in his head is unclear.

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