That's where we stand. Add the 28 names below, and we're even farther along!
GIRLS
Acho - Armenian, meaning 'right'. Pronounced 'aa ch OW'.
Carinthia -
Cloudesley -
Esfir - Russian form of Esther.
Estuuya - Inuit
Indrani-
Kiloran
Lemelia
Lesya - Ukrainian, a short form for Oleksandra or Olena. Oleksandra is the Ukrainian form of Alexandra, which is the feminine form of the Greek name Alexander, which means "defender of mankind" or "protector of mankind". It comes from 'alexo' meaning "to defend' or 'to help' and 'aner' meaning 'man'. Olena is the Ukrainian form of the Greek name Helene, meaning "torch".
Luvella
Melita -
Morna-
Okla
Phoebette-
Sadhbh-
Tsiuri - Georgian, derived from 'tsi' meaning 'sky' or 'heaven'.
Wendela -
BOYS
Borya - Russian nickname for Boris, which is derived from a Turkic name, Bogoris. It might mean 'short, 'wolf', or 'snow leopard'.
Conley
Doodes
Mundert
Qulitalik - Inuit
Taras - Ukrainian form of the Greek name 'Tarasios' meaning 'from Taras'. Taras is an old name for a very old Italian city with Greek roots called Taranto. It was named after Poseidon's son Taras. I believe that Taras Shevchenko was an important revolutionary figure from 19th century Ukraine and a poet and artist.
Zaal - Georgian form of the Persian name Zal, meaning "albino". A mythical hero had this name, as well as a head of white hair.
Zako - Armenian
Zhirayr - Armenian, meaning "strong, active"
EITHER GENDER
Atanarjuat - Inuit, meaning "the fast runner".
Ilannaq - Inuit, meaning 'friend'.
Robert Frost's poem "A Cliff Dwelling" reminds me of the people who must have lived here "Oh years ago--ten thousand years" and enjoyed the beauty and safety of a cliff. A place "to rest from his besetting fears". Welcome to mine.
In 2014 I featured a series of blog posts introducing you to 2,014 names. For the most part they were names that were brand new to me as well. Some names may be more familiar but I found the meaning or origin or some other aspect of the name made it worthy of inclusion here. You may love some of the names, you may hate some, but hopefully you enjoy learning about all of them.
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Abenaki African-Twi Akkadian Albanian Algonquian American Amorite Anglo-Saxon Arabic Aragonese Aramaic Araucan Armenian Assyrian Asturian Avestan Azeri Babylonian Basque Belarusian Benin Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Breton Bulgarian Catalan Celtic Chechen Chinese Coptic Cornish Croatian Czech Dacian Dakota Sioux Danish Dutch Egyptian English Eskimo Estonian Faroese Finnish Flemish Frankish French Frisian Gaelic Galician Gaulish German Gothic Greek Hawaiian Hebrew Hittite Hungarian Hurrian Igbo Indonesian Iranian Irish Gaelic Italian Japanese Javanese Ladino Latin Latvian Limburgish Malayalam Mandinka Manx Maori Mongolian Mormon Nahuatl Nigerian Norman Norse Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Persian Phoenician Pictish Polish Portuguese Proto-Indo-European Quahadi Roman Russian Sabine Saimogaitian Sanskrit Saxon Scottish Semitic Shakespearean Silurian Sindarin Slavic Slavonic Slovak Sogdian Spanish Sumerian Swahili Swedish Tongan Turkic Vietnamese Visigothic Welsh Xitsonga Yiddish Yoruba
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