Roses and Cellar Doors

Thanks at least partially to Latin, girls are seriously lacking in ending-letter diversity. Girls have the majority of -a, e, y, ah, and i, ...

What begins with A? Lots of smallish girls' names, and they also end that way: Abha  (ahb-hah, Hindi)--"light, luster" Ac...

Did you know there're no D-names for girls in the Top 100? Destiny  is the highest-ranked, at #113, followed by Delilah , Daniela , Dais...

A Top 500 boy name on the rise, Ari  has begun to gain momentum as a girls' nickname--nothing new in the naming world, of course--thanks...

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: ...

Clara/Klara  (KLEHR-ah, KLAH-rah) Claire  (KLEHR, French) Chiara  (KYAH-rah, Italian) Clarisse  (klah-REES, French) Emma  (EM-mah) ...

Cam  is one of the few nicknames I can easily see on either gender. Whether sort for Cameron  and Camden  for boys, or Cameron  and Camilla ...

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...

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...

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

*dies under avalanche of Ellas* I kid, I kid. Ella/Ellie is potentially one of the most popular nicknames right now, though, with Isabella,...

Every kid wants a cool name. You could hope that a kids' TV show comes along featuring your child's name--all the Tommy s and Jason ...

Andy is usually short for the Biblical Andrew and its feminine spin-off Andrea . If you love the nickname, but are bored with the usuals,...