Neat New Names Hiding in Every Nook and Cranny!

GIRLS


Adelma - Anglo-Saxon, from the name Ealdhelm, from "eald" meaning "old" and "helm" meaning "helmet".



BOYS


Cranmer

Needham

Names on the Last Day of July

GIRLS

Ruhannah

Saaniya

Tiger Lily


BOYS

Ucalegon - name of a citizen of Troy in ancient legend

Gaius Appuleius Diocles, famous charioteer
Chariot racing would require a lot of strength, I think.

Valens - Latin, meaning "healthy" or "strong".

Wenzel -

How old can you go? What are some of the oldest names you know?

GIRLS


LeEllen

Marichelle

Nitetis- Egyptian, " Njtt-jj.tj "




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Oaxes

Palaemon - Greek, meaning "the wrestler".

Quinctianus  - according to behindthename.com this is a Roman surname derived from the surname Quintius which comes from the given name Quintus, meaning "fifth" and often given to reflect birth order.

Names at the end of the Month

Franchelle

Gerardette - French, feminine form of the Norman name Gerard derived from the German "ger" meaning "spear" or "lance" and "hard" meaning "strong" or "brave" or "hardy". 

Hecale - Greek


BOYS

Isham

Joash 

Kleemo - Finnish variant of Clement

"Name Wave" for the Heat Wave

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Highness

Incarnata

Katniss


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Mostyn

Audley


NOT SURE WHICH GENDER

Telator

842 Names So Far!

The 6 names for today will bring us to 848 new names learned this year. That leaves 1166 names still to learn this year, and we are starting to move through the year a bit more quickly, it seems. I'm still quite behind on researching the names and I've probably started to fall behind a bit in introducing them to you. I'll try to do better! (especially on researching the names) How many of the names with meanings or origin or some other information have you read or learned so far?

GIRLS

Felisa

Iolana -Hawaiian form of the Greek name Yolanda, which means "violet flower".


Jayleen


BOYS

Lacell

Mortiz

Nemeus

1,597 Names left to Learn in 2014

GIRLS


Novalee

Ova


Precia




BOYS

The Way of St. James in Burgos, Spain

Rudecindo- Spanish variant of Rosendo, a form of the Visigothic name Rudecind, which comes from "hrod" meaning "fame" and "sinth" meaning "path".

Solon - ancient Greek meaning "wisdom".

Torrance - Celtic, meaning "from the knolls".

Zemariah - Hebrew, meaning "song of God".

1, 618 Names left to learn this year after today's 7

GIRLS



Synolda - I've been digging around on this name for nearly a year now. I know one thing for certain, which is that it was a female name in use in Northern France or among the Norman invaders of Britain. I don't know much more for certain. Conjecture might associate it with 'chennault' a name given to a person who lived near a channel of water (such as the English channel separating England and France) or to the word 'saulte' as in the name of Saulte Sainte Marie, the name of a city on the Saint Mary's river in Ontario, Canada, so named by the French, perhaps, because of the rapids or waterfall located there, as 'saulte' means 'jump' (saltar in Spanish also means 'to jump, and 'salta' would be what you would say if telling someone to jump. Perhaps Synolda is an old French form of some word related to this root. But in the end, it may simply mean 'a waterfall' or perhaps a place on a river where one enters or leaves the river). It 'looks' more like the word 'synod', which is the word used to refer to a church council where doctrinal matters are decided. It comes from the Greek 'synodos' meaning 'assembly' or 'meeting'. It is also worth remembering that 'ot' is a common ending to French names and a often makes a name feminine, so the original form of the name may have looked and sounded different. Which makes me think of the Greek 'xeno' meaning 'stranger' or 'foreign'. The Vikings were strangers, at first, in France, their Norman descendants were 'foreign' to the people of England, and the Anglo Normans who came to Ireland were also. I would like to know for certain the origin and meaning of this name. For now, this will have to suffice.


UPDATE: I came across the name Sinella, a descendant of the Norman invaders of England, and I wonder if this could be related to Synolda?

Torkel - Norse, from "Tor" meaning "Thor" (the god of thunder) and "ketill" meaning "cauldron" so it means "Thor's cauldron" or 'helmet" as ketill can also mean helmet. Usually a male name, but I encountered it as a female name. There is quite a story about how Thor goes about getting a cauldron.

Uli- Germanic form of Ulli, meaning "heritage" or "patrimony". It can also be a short form of the Germanic name Ulrike, meaning "powerful ruler" or an Estonian form of the Latin Ursula, meaning "little female bear". It is also a form of the Irish name "Ula", meaning "sea jewel".

Vanderleia



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Welby- Old English, "from the farm by the spring".

Xurxo - Galician form of George.

Yasser - Arabic, meaning "to be rich" from 'yasira' which means "to become easy".

O to V, Seven Names We'll See, And Leave More Wise Than if There'd Been Only 3.

 Until I come across some more q names of interest, that letter is done for this year. Which is how you get seven names from o to v


GIRLS


Otivia

Pravallika

Raona


Shoshanna - Hebrew, meaning "lily". Shosh and Shoshi are nicknames.
 

BOYS




Irish castle of the O'Neills

Thurl - Irish, meaning "from the strong fortress" according to babynamespedia.


 

The Archangel Uriel

Uriel - Hebrew, derived either from roots meaning "fire of God" or else "light of God". This is the name of 'an angel of fire' in Jewish tradition, one of the archangels.

Verica  - Celtic, name of a leader of the Atrebates, a Celtic tribe.