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...

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

Considering how many F-names seem to be trending ( Finn  and variants, Flynn , Ford ,  Fisher , Fletcher ,  Felicity , Fiona, Freya ), I...

If you're anything like me, you consider Raymond a "grandpa name" (and I'm not trying to be mean; it is literally my grand...

(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...

Ben ! How have I forgotten good, dependable Ben for so long? Benjamin  is the usual choice, of course, and just as in style as ever. Bentley...

It occurred to me the other day that I do a lot of 'names by construction' posts for girls, but not really many for boys. So then I ...

Okay, yet again , not really a usual nickname, but a nickname-y full name. Happy and off-beat, it's not surprising that Sunny   (as well...

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: ...

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...

Girls' name-trends are more nickname-driven apparently, and shorten to Addy, Maddy, Emma, Bella, Ella, or Lily (mostly skipping these, a...

I've dedicated quite a few posts to names that stand out. But what if you want a name that's modern, but not too weird or derivative...

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...

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...

I admit, I love most of the Ed-names. There's just something about them. Edward is easily the most common,  but there are lots of ways ...

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...

(bonus points if you read the title in George Takei's voice) Like I , O is a relatively rare first letter in American names. Olivia  ...

Poor Lenny . The go-to nickname for old-man Leonard , he's probably out of general favor for another generation or so, since boys' n...