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

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". 

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 - 

6 New Names

We've had a bit of a break in the month of May. So far I've introduced you to 800 names. That leaves 1214 names left to learn this year. Unless I'm doing my math wrong, that means you need to learn 5 to 6 names each day for the rest of the year.

Here are 6 for today

GIRLS

Henny

Kendallynn

Olithia- This is probably a variant spelling of Alethea, which derives from the Greek word 'aletheia' meaning 'truth'.



NOT SURE WHICH GENDER

Pollard  this seems to be English and may mean "shaved head". Polle meant head in Middle English and pollard refers to an animal with its horns removed and trees whose branches have been cut back.


Rafa

Shanika

Let's Begin Tuesday With 7 New Names!

GIRLS

Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris

Genevieva - a variant of Genevieve. britishbabynames.com suggests that Genevieve is Gaulish, from geno- meaning born or people, family, tribe and wifu meaning noble. Other sources suggest the name is Celtic or Germanic and means "woman of the people".

Heatherlyn

Idella

Jennaleigh



BOYS

Levanus - Latin, from the verb "levare" meaning "to lift". Levana was the Roman goddess of childbirth, part of the ritual of a father accepting that a child was his by picking it up or holding it after the midwife had delivered the child and placed it on the ground at the father's feet. Since women of that time period often squatted when giving birth, the ground was a natural place to put it.


Mosén - Spanish 



NOT SURE OF GENDER


Kyrone

Begin the week with 7 new names!

GIRLS

Valaunta

Willa Mae

Yhoalibeth


BOYS


Anakin - according to Wikipedia the name of Luke Skywalker's father, Anakin, was based on the last name of a friend of George Lucas. But I also came upon the following trying to research this name. In the Old Testament a race of giants are called the Anakim - they are descendants of Anak and their name may come
from a root meaning "strength" or "stature". Personally I find this to be the perfect meaning to be associated with the Anakin in Star Wars, as Darth Vader is known for both his strength and stature. In addition the giant Goliath is supposed to be a descendant of the Anakim. The battle between Luke and Vader seems to me a David and Goliath type battle, in fact the entire rebellion could be seen as David and the Empire as Goliath. The Anakim were supposed to have dwelt in the Holy Land
before the Hebrews came there from Egypt.

Anak (the ancestor of the Anakim) is considered by some to be related to the Sumerian god Enki (who is also known as Ea among the Akkadians and Babylonians), patron god of the city of Eridu and also the god of crafts, mischief, water, seawater, lakewater, intelligence, and creation. He was associated with the southern band of constellations called the stars of Ea, and also the constellation As-Iku or "the field" (known as the Square of Pegasus in modern times) and he was also associated with the planet Mercury. He appears in the earliest texts - cuneiform - and was important at least 3,000 years before Christ. He was known as "Lord of Earth". He was considered the master shaper of the world and god of wisdom and all magic. Enki casts a spell on his grandfather, Abzu, the 'begetter' of the gods and then takes over his roles.

Anak is also associated with Anax. In Greek Anax means "king" or "lord" or "leader", in the sense of a tribal king or military leader. It comes from the stem 'wanakt' and sometimes appears as 'wanaka' or 'wanasa'. As the term is used in the ancient Greek texts, an anax (such as Agammemnon) is a kind of high king, or a king in charge of other lesser kings. Anax is also a term used to refer to Zeus who is the king of the gods and 'overlord of the Universe'. Even in the ancient Homeric writings Anax is not a term used for just any king, but reserved for legendary kings and gods. It is hypothesized that this term originates with the Proto-Indo-European 'wen-ag' meaning 'bringer of spoils'. It appears as part of other terms, Hipponax (king of horses), Anaxagoras (king of the agora), Pleistoanax (king of the multitude), etc. The plural, Anakes meaning "kings" was used to refer to the 'heavenly twins' Castor and Polydeuces whose temple was called the 

Anakeion and their festival the Anakeia.

Not that Georgie had any of this in mind when naming Anakin Skywalker. Still, it is interesting to me that the name could be seen to be related to these ancient figures.

Baldric -from the German roots "bald" meaning "brave" or "bold" and "ric" meaning "rule". This name was brought to England by the Norman invaders and was common in the Middle Ages.


Cicerón

Donofrio

Names #397-403

Beautiful urns in a Roman mosaic

GIRLS


Zuri - Swahili, meaning "beautiful".




silver and blessed

Arianwen - Welsh, meaning "silver and blessed". Pronounced "ar ee AHN when".

Burla - a Bulgarian Jewish name. Possibly means "storm".


storm over Utah Lake

BOYS

Carlese


Dule

Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego protected by an angel

Eliaphaz - Hebrew, meaning "My Elohim is strength". Elohim means God.

Fant

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".