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 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

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

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

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

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)

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



BOYS


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".

Sunday's Names

GIRLS

Din

Eiluned - Welsh, meaning"idol".

Floridalma- Spanish, probably a combination of 'florida' meaning 'flowering' and 'alma' meaning 'soul'.


Code of Hammurabi, Oldest Known written laws

Gulielma - Italian feminine form of the German name William, which derives from the roots "wil" meaning "will" or "desire" and "helm" meaning "helmet" or "protection".


BOYS

Hammurabi - Akkadian, from the Amorite "Ammurapi" meaning "the kinsman is a healer", from "ammu" "paternal kinsman" and "rapi" "healer". I would think that would make the name mean something more like "my father's kinsman is a healer".



Iah - Egyptian, meaning "moon". The name of the Egyptian moon god.

           Egyptian hieroglyphs that represent the name of the moon god Iah

There was also a female bearer of the name Iah, daughter of a pharaoh, married to a pharaoh, and mother to another pharaoh and his wife (since they were brother and sister).

Jehiel - Hebrew, meaning "God lives", pronounced "jee HIE ul".

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.
 

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.

Names -Y, Z, A, for Girls and B, C, D, E for Boys

GIRLS

Yentl - Yiddish, form of the French nickname Gentille, meaning "noble" or "aristocratic".

Zuleima - derived from the Semitic root 'slm' meaning 'peace'.


Acacia  - Greek, from 'akakia' which is derived from 'akis' meaning "thorn". The acacia tree is also known as the thorntree or whistling thorn. However there are other meanings associated with the acacia tree besides its etymology that makes it a good source for a name. The acacia is associated with the tree of life in Egyptian mythology. Its bark is used to make various types of incense used in rituals, such as those to ward off demons and evil spirits and to please the gods. Some consider the acacia tree to be the burning bush seen by Moses in the Bible and acacia was the wood to be used for a table in the tabernacle of the Hebrews and to make the ark of the covenant. Some believe the crown of thorns worn by Jesus at his crucifixion came from the acacia tree. The acacia tree provides a home for various animals, is used as timber in building or as firewood, and it is used to make paper, specifically the kind of paper on which Bibles and dictionaries are commonly printed and tissue paper because of its softness. The tree spreads fast and is difficult to eradicate - which can be either a positive or a negative. It is a positive as it helps protect against erosion but a negative only in the sense of competing with native plants in a region that it is not native to, which is not necessarily seen as a negative by everyone, but some in ecology do see it this way. The acacia is a miracle tree, in a way, for how many beneficial things it provides to us and other lifeforms. It has chemical compounds which protect it from pests and grazing animals, and the alkaloids in them have psychoactive effects in humans, and are therefore used to produce drugs for treating certain types of mental illness. The properties of these are "powerful immersive experiences; often described as a total loss of connection to external reality and an experience of encountering indescribable spiritual/alien beings and realms" though in smaller amounts they may produce lesser psychedelic experiences and hallucinations.


BOYS

Bezaleal -Hebrew, meaning "in the shadow of God" where shadow means 'protection'. This is also spelled Bezalel and Betzalel.

Caelum there are two Latin words spelled like this, one meaning sky or heaven and the other meaning chisel. However, it may simply be an alternate spelling of the Scottish name Callum, which is a form of Columba, which is Latin in origin, and means "church dove".Caelum is the name of a constellation in the southern sky.



Normans who conquered England, about the time of Roger Deramis

Deramis - One of the funner names I've researched. I 'believe' I got this as the surname of Roger Deramis, mentioned in the Domesday Book. A little research turned up his name as de Ramis and his origin as one of the Normans who came to England with William the Conqueror from Northern France. Rheims is a city in northeastern France, and de Ramis could very well mean that Roger was 'from Rheims', as French surnames often work that way. Rheims is an old city. Before the Romans conquered Gaul there were many tribes who lived in various parts of the country and allied themselves with some and fought relentlessly with others. Rheims was settled by a people called the Remi. There is even a legend that the Remi were founded by Remus, one of the mythical founders of Rome. He was one of the sons of Rhea Silvia, whose name comes from the name of the goddess Rhea, an earth goddess. The meaning of her name is uncertain, but the Greek 'rheo' means "to flow" and "era" means "ground". Another way to look at the meaning of Deramis is that the city of Rheims for a long time was the place where French kings were crowned. The Remi who lived in this area were good horsemen, living in the part of France near Belgium, in the Ardennes forest and near the Meuse and Marne rivers.



Elam - Sumerian name for an ancient civilization in eastern Iran. Elamites called their country Haltamti. According to the Bible they are descended from Elam, son of Shem, Noah's eldest son. The Persian name for this place is Susa and the Old Persian name is Hujiya. Other names are Susiana, Huz, Xuz. There seems to be some connection between the name Susa and Susan.

R-X

More names toward our goal of 2,014 new names to learn this year.


GIRL NAMES





Rumer - English, meaning "gypsy".






 


Saoirse -Irish, meaning "freedom" and pronounced "sair sha".



Tansy - according to appellationmountain.net this name comes from the Greek word athanasia, meaning "immortality", coming more directly  from the Latin form of this, tanacita. Tansy is the name of a flower.







 

Uda -a form of Oda, a Germanic name meaning "wealth" or "inheritance". Pronounced 'you da'.








 


BOY NAMES

Volney- German, meaning "spirit of the folk".   


 



Warrick - English, from Warwick, which derives from "weir" meaning "weir" or "dam" and "wic" meaning "dairy farm".







 




Xenophon - Greek, meaning "stranger's voice".