Let's end June with a Bang!

GIRLS


Yvrose- Thank goodness for new discoveries! I made this one this past week. But I have not yet had time to research it. At first glance it seems to be a smoosh of Yvette or Yvonne and Rose. If I find something more I will let you know.
 

Zilda-

Delanea-






BOYS


Esmonde- from the Old English name Eastman, from "east" meaning "grace" or "beauty" and "mund" meaning "protection".

Grundy-

Harmar-

1,941 names left to learn

With these 7 names we only have 1,941 names left to learn this year

GIRLS

Sevilla, Spain

Brunhilde - German, meaning 'armed warrior'.

Cevilla -  near the ancient capital of the Tartesses, ancient inhabitants of Andalucia, Spain, the city of Seville grew. Though the Tartesses welcomed trade with the Greeks it was not constant enough to prevent Phoenicians from conquering the place. The earliest known name of the city was Hispalis. The Romans took it from the Phoenicians. Over time its name changed to Ispalis and with the invasion of the Moors it became Isibiliya. The Spanish called it Isbilia or Ixbilia, also, and then Sibilia. Eventually the name converted to Sevilla. Cevilla is just an alternate spelling of Sevilla. In Spanish this is pronounced 'seh bee yah'.

the Lower Miera Valley, where my short, brilliant Spanish explorer Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco

these bushes grow together to
make one hedge

Demiera -  There are a few possible origins of the use of Demiera as a girl's first name. One would be the Spanish surname de Miera  'day mee AIR uh" another is that it comes from Dimera  and refers to a body made up of two joined parts (di meaning two, mera similarly means 'halves', so somethig cut in half) and the third, and my favorite, comes from Geez and according to that Christian tradition (Ethiopian Orthodox) demera is celebrated on September 26th as a feast day and means 'made one' or 'gather together'. It seems evident to me the connection between the meaning of Demera and Dimera. But De Miera is more often found as a surname and it derives from a place. If I knew the origin of Miera, I'd have a start, at least. There is a part of Cantabria, Spain where this name prospers (or did, at least, in the 1700s). I enjoy the name as it is one of the last names of an explorer and artist who traveled with Father Escalante in the Southwest and drew maps and actually visited places I grew up in, before white people lived there. He saw the land unspoilt. Before the people who had lived there for generations were pushed into the corners. There is a beautiful painting on the side of a building in the small town near where I grew up of he and Father Escalante visiting the spot. It's pretty dang neat. So, I will opt for using the name in honor of him rather than the other two possibilities I've come across. It also reminds me of the name Damaris and of the only person I've met with this name (who spoke Spanish, so her name was said 'dah mah REES'. I think in Engish this name is more likely to be said 'DAM uh riss' or 'duh MARE iss'. Though, when I taught in North Carolina I met a Tamara who said her name 'tuh MAHR uh' so maybe some folks would say it as 'duh MAHR is'. I prefer the first two options, myself.

this is a pretty depiction of the
notion that two things can make
 one whole.

Although this woman's name is not Eleftheria
 (she is Katerina Botsari),  her father is
representative of the fight for independece in
Greece in the 1820s. Her brother became war
minister to King Otto I of Greece and
Katerina became the King's daughter-in-law
when she married Prince George

Eleftheria - "Eleftheria i thanatos" is the motto of Greece and means 'Freedom or Death". It was used in the 1820s when Greeks fought a War of Indepence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

The Spanish Visigothic
king Pelayo

BOYS



Fedorel -

Gumersindo - Visigothic, from the Germanic roots 'guma' meaning 'man' and 'swind' meaning 'strong'.

Hjalmer - Norse, meaning 'warrior helmet'. It is pronounced 'HALL mer'. Harmar is a variant of this name.

 

2, 014 Names in 2014 - 7 more!

The previous post was supposed to get posted on Wednesday, but I could not find information on the two names I had wanted to post (Harmar and Landred - when I can tell you more about them than I currently know, I'll post them) so it got posted January 2nd. Still a day behind, this post is for yesterday, January 2nd.

Girls

Ocean - this is a nature name whose meaning is obvious. But what is the origin of the word ocean? Ever wondered? Okeanos, in Greek mythology, was a great stream that encircled the earth's disk (remember, the earth was supposed to be flat! We get our English word ocean from the French word occean which comes from the Latin oceanus. Which is just a form of Okeanos.

Pomelline -  a French form of the Italian name Pomellina which comes from the Italian word 'pomella' which comes from the word 'poma' which means "apple". The word 'pomme' in French also means apple, but the use of Pomelline appears to be related to a saint named Pome.

Queenie -  Not a name anyone is likely to use nowadays. It has been used as a given name in the past, though. It comes from the English word 'queen' which means 'ruler'.

Renate - Latin meaning "reborn", a form of the name Renata.


Boys



Stavros - Greek, meaning "cross".

Tavish - anglicized form of Thamais, which is a form of Tamhas, which is the Scottish form of the name Thomas. Thomas is the Greek form of the Aramaic name Ta'oma', which means 'twin'. tah vish', where the 'ah' is the same as the a sound in father.
Tavish is pronounced '

Urias - Latin form of the Hebrew name 'Uriyah, which means "Yahweh is my light"  (remember, Yahweh is the name used for the Hebrew god).