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

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

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.

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

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)

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.
 

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".