GIRLS
Adelma - Anglo-Saxon, from the name Ealdhelm, from "eald" meaning "old" and "helm" meaning "helmet".
BOYS
Cranmer
Needham
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Sunday, January 17, 2016
Sunday, November 23, 2014
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
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
Friday, November 21, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
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
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
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Monday, June 30, 2014
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
Nemeus
GIRLSFelisa
Iolana -Hawaiian form of the Greek name Yolanda, which means "violet flower".
Jayleen
BOYS
Lacell
Mortiz
Monday, February 24, 2014
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".
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".
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