I Spy, With My Little Eye, Some Extraordinary Names

Or at least, they were names I had not seen or noticed before. I saw these on my walk yesterday at the graveyard.

GIRLS

Christia - I'm wondering how it's pronounced. Is it just said like Christa? Or is it said like Christy? Is it 'chris tee ah' or is it 'christ yah'  or 'christ jah' or maybe even 'chris TEE ah'? Chris tee yah is my personal choice.

BOYS

Clagett - this is a surname around here but this was the first time I have seen it as a personal name.

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".

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". 

"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

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 - 

A Gust of Names

GIRLS

Selinda

Theda

Verlene


BOYS

Ausias- Catalan, a variant of Oseas, which is a Latin version of the Hebrew name Hosea, which means "salvation".

Benajah


NOT SURE WHICH GENDER

Canoll

Dencie (?girl)

Do you see one or two names you would use?

I'm not saying they're all extremely usable. But, I think that Aljourn 'might' work on a boy these days and Xevera maybe on a girl. I wonder if there was ever more than one Zerubbabel??

GIRLS

Wilmet

Xevera

Yrsa - Swedish, possibly derived from 'ursa' meaning 'bear'.


BOYS

Zerubbabel - possibly Hebrew, derived from "Zerua Bavel" meaning "the one sown of Babylon" or "Zeruy Bavel" meaning "the winnowed one of Babylon". The one interpretation relates to the idea of child born in Babylon or conceived there and the second to living in Babylon as an exile. Wikipedia also suggests the possibility that this name derives from the Assyrian-Babylonian "Zeru Bavel" which means "one conceived in Babylon". They all seem the same to me.

Burgess Meredith, actor

Aljourn - a form of Algernon.

Burgess - English, derived from the French and indicating someone who lives in a town.

Cuthbert - Old English, meaning "famous".

oops, I posted this a bit early - these names are for Saturday

Wednesday's Names

GIRLS

Williadine - No greater luck determining how this name came to be than for Willowdean.

Xanthe- Greek, meaning "blond-haired".

I also came across a poet who has published some of her work on the web, going by Xanthe (not blond haired, though, from what I can see, but hopefully a lover of Ancient Greece!) Here is a link to one of her poems. I liked how vulnerable she was willing to be in her poem and the simplicity of it. It seems like maybe writing this was therapeutic and what I call "soul-building". When I read some of my earliest poems I find that in them sometimes. You know, when you don't want to hide the meaning or intent of your poem behind artifice.

Queen Boudicca - one example of "fierce" "glory" of the "noble kind"

Yarisleidy- I know that this name is given to Spanish-speakers. Beyond that, I don't know anything 'certain' about its origin or meaning. However, some possibilities exist. Might it be a form of the Slavic name Yaroslava? This can  also be spelled Jaroslava. Eleydi is another name I've come across on Spanish-speaking girls, which is an old name. It can also be written Aleydis. Could Yarisleidy be a compound name, like many Spanish-speaking names (Adamaris, for instance), combing Jaroslava and Aleydis?  Jarosleydis or perhaps written Yarosleydis, with the s eventually dropped and amending the spelling a bit? If so, Yaroslava means "fierce glory" as it is derived from the Slavic roots 'jary' meaning "fierce" or "strong" and 'slawa' meaning "glory". Aleydis is a form of Adelaide, which is a German name meaning "noble type" or "noble sort" or "noble kind", coming from the roots 'adal' meaning "noble" and 'heid' meaning "kind, sort, type". The meaning you might get for a compound name derived from Yaroslava and Aleydis, then, would be "fierce glory of the noble kind". Gotta say that I love that.


BOYS

Zabry - possibly comes from the Czech Zábřeh, which is the name of a town in the Czech Republic - it is in the Sudentenland, which was 'annexed' by Hitler to Germany in 1938. It is derived from “zá” meaning "behind" and "břeh" meaning "riverbank". This refers to the  Moravská Sázava river.  Zábřežská vrchovina refers to the part of the town located on a hillside, with Zábřežská vrchovina meaning Zábřeh highlands. So, it seems to me, Zábřežská would make a nice feminine version of this name. Though I have NO idea how to say that!


Abimael - Hebrew, meaning "my father is God".

Burnell - English, meaning "little brown-haired one".







Cristóforo- Spanish form of Christopher. Pronounced "cree STOW foe row" be sure to roll the r in the last syllable.

Names 218-224

GIRLS

Mehitabel - Hebrew, meaning "God rejoices". Often spelled Mehitable and also Mehetabel.

Nieves - Spanish, meaning "snows".


Osburga - a variant of Osburh

BOYS

Persifor

Race

Salathiel - Greek variant of the Hebrew name Shealtiel. This name means "I asked El" (referring to the child being named as the thing asked for). El means God.

Thelonius - Behind the Name lists the meaning as "ruler of the people" suggesting it is the Latin form of Tielo, a German nickname for people with names like Dietrich.