Roses and Cellar Doors

I've already done a post on named stars , as well as one on names that mean 'star' . However, that overlooks one very narrow cat...

Well, probably not. Since Everett  (boys) and Everly  (girls) are amongst the quickest rising names in the US (admittedly, that might change...

English doesn't have any native feminizing suffixes: all the ones we typically use (-a, -ia, -ette/etta, -ine/ina) are borrowed from Lat...

Anybody else feel like Winnie -names might be starting to trend? I did a post on Winnie -names for girls a bit back (and somehow missed Elo...

Some time ago (5 years, apparently!), I did a post on matronymic surnames . Since then, I've found more! Although there are nowhere near...

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, ...

Really? I haven't done Nora yet? Yikes, what an oversight! Nora  is currently quite a popular name on its own, all over the world, but ...

Haha, now that song's in your head! I love a good -ric name. And unlike many constructions, this one is pretty much exclusively male (...

I was perusing name announcements the other day, and came across Kimber . I admit, my initial reaction was along the lines of " Ugh. An...

There's a category of names that I love that really doesn't get much play anymore: the -ildas & -eldas. Maybe it's the medie...

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