Baby Name: peregrine
Baby Name Needed – What Do You Think of Phineas?
A reader named Virginia is expecting a baby in September. For a boy, she’d selected the name Phineas. She liked “that it was unusual without being bizarre,” and that it started with ph. But now she’s not so sure about the name:
All was fine and dandy until I read an article about violence in the [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Baby Names from Religion, Boy Names, Girl Names, Unique Baby Names | Also tagged amos, anne, barnabas, baxter, Clotilde, cybele, dagny, daphne, delphine, drusilla, elizabeth, ephraim, esther, ezra, fabiola, felix, georgia, horatio, humphrey, joel, josephine, julia, lazarus, lucretia, matthias, maximilian, moses, ophelia, penelope, phineas, phinnaeus, phoebe, phyllis, ralph, raphael, rufus, ruth, salome, samuel, seraphina, sigrid, silas, simeon, talulla, tryphena, ulysses, verena, virginia, zephaniah
Baby Names Needed – Whimsical, Weird Names for Quadruplets
Estelle wrote to me recently with a tall order:
I’m having quads (!!!) in 4 weeks and I need names! I’m having one boy and three girls. My 4 year old son’s name is Cosmo. My husband and I like spacey, whimsical and weird names.
In fact, they “don’t have any limits on how weird a name [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names, Girl Names, Unique Baby Names | Also tagged adhara, agni, aldous, allegra, altair, althea, aludra, antares, antlia, apollonia, aquarius, aquila, aries, artemis, auriga, aurora, azha, barnaby, briony, calypso, capser, carina, clio, corvus, cosmo, cygnus, cyril, demetria, deneb, denebola, echo, elan, erasmus, eulalia, evander, fabio, freya, gideon, hamal, hestia, horatio, ignatius, imelda, imogen, ione, isidore, isis, jethro, jonquil, kastra, lacerta, leander, libra, loki, lucasta, luna, lyra, magnus, meissa, milo, minerva, nashira, nigel, norma, odin, olympia, orion, pascal, pavo, persephone, polaris, rana, remy, reuben, rigel, sapphira, shaula, sheratan, silas, sirrah, suhail, taliesin, taurus, theron, thuban, tycho, ulysses, ursula, vega, vela, xanthe, zelda, zenobia, zenon
Pilgrim Names for Thanksgiving – Elizabeth, John, Mary, William
Happy Turkey Day, everyone! In honor of the holiday, I thought I’d give you a complete list of (known) Mayflower names:
Male
Female
Bartholomew
Christopher
Degory
Edmund
Edward (6)
Elias
Francis (3)
George
Gilbert
Giles
Henry
Issac
James
Jasper
John (15)
Joseph (2)
Love
Moses
Myles
Oceanus*
Peregrine*
Peter
Resolved
Richard (5)
Robert
Roger
Samuel (3)
Solomon
Stephen
Thomas (4)
William (8)
Wrestling
[Anonymous - 4]
Alice (2)
Ann
Catherine
Constance
Damaris
Desire
Dorothy (2)
Eleanor
Elizabeth (3)
Ellen
Humility
Joan
Mary (6)
Priscilla
Remember
Rose
Sarah
Susanna (2)
[Anonymous - 2]
*The Mayflower launched with 102 passengers, but ended up with 104: both Oceanus and Peregrine were born aboard [...]
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Pilgrim Baby Names – Oceanus and Peregrine