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...

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

I've been wondering--why do we have so many iambic names for girls , but not for boys? (if you need a reminder, an "iamb" is a...

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...

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 (...

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...

I know, it seems weird to group those together. But, Dolly & Dotty were nicknames for Dorothy thanks to that R-to-L/T/D shift that Middl...

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 ...

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...

It's funny how when asked for classic boys' names, we have a tendency to list names we know from our  generation. Jason, Andrew, Rya...

Aubrey  (AW-bree, English)) Alberico  (al-BEHR-ee-koh, Italian) Auberon  (OH-behr-on, French)--Also spelled  Oberon . Avery  (AY-ver-ee...

Oh, poor Agnes . Once one of the most popular girls names in all the English-speaking world, she fell off the charts in the early 70s, and h...

Perhaps a bit of a cheat, as tons  of names contain the letter Y. However, almost none have it as an initial letter...in English, anyway. I...

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

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...

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...

Quite frequently, I come across a name with a couple interesting variants, but not enough to dedicate an entire post to. I've been stori...