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

Sunday's 14 Names

GIRLS

Janith

Jushoda - Sanskrit, from Jashas, meaning "fame" and da, meaning "to give". 

Lisarda

Lucilina

Urraca - Basque, "magpie" from "urra" meaning "nut". See An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages by Friedrich Dietz and T.C. Donkin, 1864, pg 448

Zula


BOYS

Elimelech - Hebrew, meaning "God is judge" or "God has judged".

Jaquan

Jocky

Lindall - English, from "lin" meaning "brook" and "dale" meaning "valley".

Live

Othal

Rajan

Steen

1298

Counted up all the names I've introduced you through this year's 2014 New Names in 2014 post series. 1298 names learned so far. I still need to introduce you to 716 more names. 126 a week or 18 a day. Here's some to keep us on schedule.


GIRLS


Enza

Lonia

Lulabelle - I saw this name on a tombstone today in Mt. Hebron Cemetery here in Winchester.

Amarilla

Sosie



BOYS


Alanson

Alpheus

Azel

Dennon

Plimpton



NOT SURE OF GENDER


Givie

Tollie

New Names for November

GIRLS

Bathshuah - Hebrew

Florisa - Spanish, pronounced 'floor EE sah'. Flor means 'flower' in Spanish. Florisa would mean something like 'flower-like'.

Lilla

Rosenda - may be a feminine variant of Rosendo, a Spanish form of the Visigothic name Rudecind, from the Germanic roots 'hrod' meaning 'fame' and 'sinths' meaning 'path'.

Theodate

Zilla

To market, to market, to find some strange names, home again, home again, jiggety-james.

GIRLS

Victorina - Latin, meaning "victory", the mother of Victorinus, one of the Thirty Tyrants.

Wilella - English


Xenoveva - Asturian


BOYS

Yemelyan - Russian

Zagraeus - Greek

Adalbern - Germanic, from "adal", meaning "noble", and "bern", meaning "bear".

Rainy days and Names always cheer me up

GIRLS

Donda

Elander

Fan


BOYS

Greenbury

Holdridge

Iacchus

Names for the start of August

GIRLS

Xhuliana - Albanian form of Juliana. Juliana is a feminine form of the Roman 'cognomen' Julianus - cognomen being the third name given to a Roman citizen, initially it was a sort of nickname but eventually changed to serve as a way of identifying one branch of a family from another. Julianus is derived from the Roman surname Julian (which has since evolved into a first name) which means "of the gens Julia" or "a descendat of Julus". Julus or Iulus was supposed to be the son of the goddess Venus and one of the original inhabitants of Rome. The Julians were people who claimed descent from him. So Xhuliana would suggest someone who claimed descent from Julus/Iulus and by extension, from the goddess of love (Venus). Perhaps "descended from the offspring of the goddess of love" would be a good way of interpreting the name. Though I have not found what Julus or Iulus may have originally meant or referred to.

Yalda - Syriac, a form of Middle Aramaic, and the Nestorian Christian name for Christmas (it means "birth"), it is celebrated on the eve of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year.

Zosine - Greek


BOYS

Abdulrahman

Buthyreus

Caraeus

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 "




BOYS


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

A Bit of Both and Neither (or is it Either?)

GIRLS

Zelia - Hebrew, from "zelus" meaning "zealous" or "ardent". It is pronounced "ZEH lee uh".

Ajarae

Brickaney


BOYS

Deileon

Elim



NOT SURE WHICH GENDER

Calsey

Pioneer Day Names

GIRLS


Tristiana

Ulpukka - Finnish, name of a yellow pond-lily called spatterdock.

Xenoclea - Greek, name of the oracle at the temple of Apollo at Delphi.



BOYS


Volusius - Latin, from Volusus, a form of Volesus. According to a user on behindthename.com the name may come from the Oscan or Sabine languages and mean "to be strong" (coming from 'valere') or "to will" or "to want" or "to wish" or "to desire" (coming from "volo") or "flying, winged thing" (coming from volucer).

Wmffre

Ynyr Welsh form of the Latin name Honorius, from "honoro" meaning "honor" or "respect".

Mid-July Names

GIRLS


Bernestine

Calvinesha

Dalla




BOYS


Eburn - Old English, from "eg" meaning "island" and "burna" meaning "river".

Feabris

Garrick - Old English, meaning "spear king", it is also Occitan meaning "oak grove". 

Some of the best Unusual names

GIRLS

Unelma

Ventla

Yazgülü - Turkish, meaning "summer rose, from the elements "yaz" meaning summer and gul meaning "rose". Pronounced "YAHZ-gew-LEW".


BOYS

Winwaloe Breton

Xicu - Asturian, a form of Francis, which means "Frenchman".

Zaia - Aramaic, Assyrian, and Syrian, a short form of the Hebrew name Isaiah, which means "Yahweh is salvation".

"Name Wave" for the Heat Wave

GIRLS

Highness

Incarnata

Katniss


BOYS

Mostyn

Audley


NOT SURE WHICH GENDER

Telator

Half a dozen names

GIRLS

Kayleen

Petrina

Reinalda

BOYS 

Acheron

NOT SURE OF GENDER

Beriah

Calle

878

That's how many new names I've introduced you to this year. Adding today's 6 you will have learned 884 names. Which will leave  1,130 names still to learn this year.


GIRLS

Geraldette

Iracena



BOYS

Moleston



NOT SURE OF GENDER

Harvis

Jones

Laco

1142

That's how many names we still need to learn in 2014 to reach our goal of learning 2,014 new names this year. We are learning 6 names today so that means we have 1,136 names left to learn. It also means that we have now (with today's names) learned 878 new names in 2014.

GIRLS


Prunelle -French diminutive for prune, which comes from the Latin 'prunum' which comes from the Greek "prounon" which is a form of "proumnon" which means "plum".


Rafaeline

Turid



BOYS


Ethric - Anglo-Saxon short form of Aethelric or Ethelric, from "aethel" meaning "noble" and "ric" meaning "rule" or "power".  

Falvey 



NOT SURE OF GENDER


Cathal

866

That's the number of names I've introduced you to so far this year. The 6 names for today bring us to 872 names learned. Which means there are 1,142 names left to learn.



GIRLS

Kendriana

Lillybelle

Mahuldah


BOYS

Archimiro

Bethenel

NOT SURE OF GENDER

Sears

First things first, Second things Second - Names for the 2nd of July

GIRLS


Krishelle

Phonesavanh- the name of a city in Laos that was built in the 1970s. The ethnic groups in the area are Hmong, Khmu, Phuan, Tai Dam, and Tai Daeng. I'm not sure what language the name of the city comes from

Rula



BOYS


Taliaferro - Italian, meaning "iron cutter".
 

Aberforth - Anglo-Saxon meaning "Eadburg's ford". It is also written as Aberford and is the name of an ancient place in England.



NOT SURE WHICH GENDER


Shomo -