Roses and Cellar Doors

I'm a massive Studio Ghibli fan, so I have no idea how this post never occurred to me before now. ;) Miyazaki especially is known for ...

Names ending in "oh" are trending pretty nicely right now, mostly for boys, but definitely a bit for girls as well. The boys' ...

The holidays are over; winter can be over now too, thanks. ;) I was thinking the other day about names with "flower" meanings, sp...

I know, it seems weird to group those together. But, Dolly & Dotty were nicknames for Dorothy thanks to that R-to-L/T/D shift that Middl...

I was surprised to find that Samuel  & Samantha are currently ranked #25 & 29 in the US (for boys & girls, respectively, of cour...

Perhaps a bit of a cheat, as tons  of names contain the letter Y. However, almost none have it as an initial letter...in English, anyway. I...

I've done quite a few nature-name posts, but I realized I'd left out a lot of names! Captain Planet would be ashamed. Earth: ...

While doing my virtue-names post a while back, I came across many names with meanings that weren't quite  virtues. While naming your da...

Well, I've done I-names and O-names , so now it time for me to continue the trend of underused letters, this time with U. Only 4 names...

Yet another "nickname" that's actually a full name in its own right. Emma  is definitely a hot name right now, and not just in...

Okay, technically, Kai  is quite an established name in many parts of the world (with several different origins). But, in the U.S., where n...

May flowers! Happy, uh, May Day? We'll go with that. On the heels of my bird-themed post, a flower-themed post also seemed like a fun i...

Combined, Isabella  & Isabelle  are easily the most popular girls' name. Chances are many were named to get that to that cool Bella ...

I admit it--I have a soft spot for bird-names: Wren , Lark , Robin , even the "weird" ones like Kestrel , Peregrine , & Heron ...

Boys' names with stalwart, warrior-type names are pretty darned common-- Ethan ("enduring"),  Alexander ("defender of men...

I admit, sometimes I come across fun new names, and have to come up with a way to work them into a post (without being ridiculously obvious,...

It occurred to me the other day that I is a most underused vowel. If you're watching the final round of Wheel of Fortune , no one ever p...

With autumn vanishing, and the world turning brown and white, it seems an appropriate time to distract myself with thoughts of color. Boys...

Modern American English has a pretty regular system for making nicknames (the fancy word is hypocoristics )--take the main phoneme/syllable...

Although I generally write this sort of posts for very popular (some would say overused) nicknames, today I'm writing about Cory . Origi...