Roses and Cellar Doors

Waaaaaay back in 2012 I did a post on Marian names, and have since been adding to it one at a time as I came across others. Recently, thoug...

Up today on the Medieval World Tour is Spain & Catalonia! As always, I'm looking particularly for names/forms that didn't surviv...

I've been wondering--why do we have so many iambic names for girls , but not for boys? (if you need a reminder, an "iamb" is a...

(I know, my puns are getting worse. Sorry.) Continuing my posts of rare-letter names, it is now time for X. X is the third-least-common st...

I've already done name lists of the least common vowels ( U , O , & I ), so now it's time for the least common consonants. No su...

Woo! Time for another theoretical names post (I have a lot of fun with these). Lots of gemstone- & other mineralogical-type names are/h...

The usual nickname for the classic Caroline , Carrie  also has a timeless feel, although its use as a given name  has tanked over the last t...

Oh, Henry ; handsome Henry . His usage may have waned for a few decades, but he's never fallen out of the top 150. With dozens of namesa...

A new, expanded version of this post can now be found here! Thanks for visiting my blog! :D I did a quick Google search, and was sur...

It's funny how feminine forms come about. Different languages of course have different masculine & feminine indicators, but quite of...

George . It's one of those names where the consensus is split pretty evenly--some think it's purely boring, stodgy old-man, and some...

Like J & K, Xs are relatively rare in English words, and so they're memorable & eye-catching. Unlike J & K, however, it'...

Poor Anne is often held as the epitome of 'boring' names. And yet, she's also one of the most common contributors to compound n...

Mia . At just three letters, it's easily the shortest female name in common usage today. That's probably why, despite it's overw...

Jacob --a seeming contradiction; both traditional and trendy. It was a top name back when the SSA started keeping track over 120 years ago, ...