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Spelling Tip for Creative Baby-Namers – Don’t Mess with Qu
I noticed Qwinton and Qynn while scanning thousands of Albertan baby names the other day. Qwinton looks like it’s based on Quinton, and I believe Qynn is meant to be a form of Quinn.
I’m not a linguist, so I can’t give you the history of qu, but I can tell you that altering this digraph [...]
Posted in Baby Name Advice, Baby Names, Boy Names, Unique Baby Names Also tagged quinton, qwinton, qynn
A Rose by Any Other Name – Burnaby, Natali, Zelda Lloyd
Sure, a rose by just any other name would not smell as sweet. But what if the name were as cool as “Madame Azélie Imbert” or “Victor Emmanuel”?
Other intriguing rose names I found in the EveryRose.com database include:
Abraham Darby
Admired Miranda
Betty Uprichard
Burnaby
Clementina Carbonieri
Cyril Fletcher
Dagmar Spath
Dainty Bess
Edna Marie
Eustacia
Fiona’s Affection
Fraulein Octavia Hesse
Gentle Hermione
Ghislaine de Feligonde
Hawaiian Queen Martha
Henry [...]
Posted in Baby Name Trends, Baby Names, Baby Names from Literature, Baby Names from Plants, Boy Names, Girl Names, Unique Baby Names Also tagged abraham, allison, anderson, antony, azelie, beatrix, bennett, bes, betty, burnaby, clementina, cyril, dagmar, duncan, edna, emanuel, erskine, eugenie, eustacia, fiona, ghislaine, henry, hermione, ida, jan, jessika, joe, kaitlyn, lawinia, louise, margrethe, martha, miranda, natali, oskar, phyllis, portia, rex, rick, rose, roses, ruthie, sharifa, tara, thisbe, titiana, uwe, victor, victoria, walter, xavier, yolande, zelda, zelia, zephirine
Baby Name Needed – Middle Name for Harper
A reader named Amie needs a middle name for her first baby:
We have chosen Harper for our little girl’s first name. We like unique, not used very often names. We tend to lean toward the Irish/English type names. We kind of like Gray, Finnean, Reese…
Here are some names that seem (to me) [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Girl Names, Middle Names Also tagged avery, dylan, ellery, finley, flannery, harper, june, kate, leah, marlow, oakley, reeve, serena, tess, tobin, vaughn
Baby Name Needed – Girl Name like Tatum