Roses and Cellar Doors

I somehow got sucked into a rabbit-hole of looking up names based on Latin "love", the most familiar of which today are probably A...

Cambria  is gaining popularity, and Brittania/Britannia  also has sporadic use. There's also Lydia  (although I doubt people today assoc...

It's pretty easy to come up with multiple phonetic trends for girls, but I've been trying to even things up and discover some for bo...

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

If you have any sort of background or interest in Ancient Greece, you've probably noticed that I've been rather inconsistent on pron...

I did "boyish" girl names, so now I have to do the reverse, of course! Boys have much more diversity when it comes to name endings...

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, ...

We get lots of our modern names from Latin--no denying that! And many of them are obviously closely related--Lucia & Luciana, Paula ...

Yes, yes, I know: Rory isn't a nickname; it's a full boys' name. But, thanks at least partially to Gilmore Girls , Rory is incre...

No, that's not an anime (that I know of, anyway). Goddess-trios are a common theme in mythology, and while the Greeks are most famous f...

Despite the fact that Etta  rose higher than any of her long forms, I still think of her as a nickname. I'm not sure why--because -etta ...

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

Remy/Remi  is another in a long line of traditionally-masculine-but-sounds-feminine-to-modern-ears names that seems to be on the rise for bo...

Okay, yes, I know--there have been thousands, possibly millions  of names that were once in use which, for whatever reason, just...stopped. ...

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...

There are quite a few popular nicknames that are seriously lacking a variety of sources! Of course, I have to try anyway. This will definite...

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: ...

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

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...

Yeah, it's been a while. But, I kept coming across names I'd somehow missed the first time around , and my persnickety nature insist...