Roses and Cellar Doors

Okay, yes, I have a lot  of flower-name posts already. But, despite all those, I'm sure I can find more (plus, it's my birthday and ...

Oh, I miss the beach. While I wouldn't recommend 'booby' or 'haematopus', there are some really nice-sounding seabird na...

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

Fern   is kind of an odd name if you think about it. I mean, we don't call kids ' Algae ' or ' Angiosperm ' or ' Con...

It's probably pretty obvious by now that I love nature names. And of all the nature-y posts I've done so far, I think " Plants ...

Time for some more theoretical fun! Previously I found some songbird  and butterfly  genera that I thought might make decent human names (ma...

Happy Spring! I'm going to celebrate with a flower post! But, since I do have a tendency to go a bit overboard with the long lists, I...

Floral and other plant names are again having a heyday-- Lily , Violet , Jasmine , Hazel , Willow , Ivy , etc. The boys are even getting int...

A while back, I went looking for taxonomic names that can work as (or already are!) people-names, starting with butterflies . Now it's t...

It never ceases to amaze me how many names are also animal genera. Quite a few taxonomic names might make good people-names, too, it turns o...

You can thank my 7-year-old's obsession for this list. While watching a documentary on Icelandic volcanoes, I couldn't help but noti...

I admit, I'm always looking for ways to make fun namesake posts. I already did female scientists (nowhere near  a comprehensive list), ...

A while back I did a post on names of stars , but I was recently struck on how nice names that mean "star" are-- Stella , Estelle/...

Well, it's finally here! In celebration of warmer weather, of Easter/Ostara, here are names that can be associated with the season. Bo...

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

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: ...