Thursday, December 26, 2019

Names for the Day After Christmas

GIRLS


Electa

Gheeda

Jemimita - Spanish nickname for the Hebrew name Jemima, pronounced "heh me me tah". Jemima means "dove".

Lozette

Lucina

Reseula



BOYS


Almenus

Ansgar - Germanic, from "ans" meaning "god" and "ger" meaning "spear".

Arend

Asbjorn - Old Norse, from "ass" meaning "god" and "bjorn" meaning "bear".

Bent- Danish form of the Latin name Benedictus meaning "blessed".

Christer -  Danish nickname for the name Christian, which comes from the Latin Christianus meaning "a Christian".

Dagfinn - from Old Norse "Dagfinnr" from "dagr" meaning "day" and "finnr" meaning "person from Finland".

Eilert - Scandinavian form of the Germanic name Egilhard, from "egil" meaning "edge of a sword" and "hard" meaning "hardy" or "brave".

Fridolf - Germanic, from "fridu" meaning "peace" and "wolf".

Gurdon

Orange - this was quite a family name. The father and son had it, then he named his son Orange, his brother also had a son named Orange,

Pierpont - Apparently the banker J.P. Morgan preferred to go by his middle name Pierpont, which was his mother's maiden name.



NOT SURE OF GENDER

Lectie

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