Baby Name: zita
Tropical Cyclone Names – Abdul, Fletcher, Timba, Vongfong
Hurricane Bill didn’t make landfall last weekend, and Tropical Storm Danny probably won’t have much impact this weekend. It’s been a rather uneventful storm season for New England thus far. So let’s spice things up with a selection of tropical cyclone names from areas other than the humdrum Atlantic Ocean: Australian Region Bruce, Fletcher, Gillian, [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names, Unique Names Also tagged abdul, akoni, aletta, baazu, beni, bruce, butchoy, ewiniar, fanoos, fausto, fletcher, gillian, hagibis, hamish, humba, isis, jasmine, jaya, kamit, keoni, kirrily, lam, narelle, nock-ten, ockhi, olwyn, ompong, paine, phanfone, pindile, pyarr, sergio, songda, timba, upia, vongfong, walaka, wilby, wiley, wutip, xylo, yoyoy, zoelle, zuma
Unique Female Saint Names – Anthia, Gemma, Melosa, Zita
Here is the second installment of my week-long series on unusual female saint names… St. Foila, Irish, 6th century. Also recorded as Faile and Faoile (possibly pronounced FWEE-la), her name may mean seagull in certain dialects. Feast day: March 3. St. Fina, Italian, 1238-1253. Her full name may have been Serafina. Feast day: March 12. [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Girl Names, Religious Names, Unique Names Also tagged anthia, basilla, domnina, fina, flavia, foila, gemma, henedian, melosa, tertulla, vissia
Baby Name Needed – Spunky Name for Sophie’s Little Sister
A reader named Mercedes is expecting a baby girl in December: Our 4-year-old is named Sophie. We love it because it’s cute and spunky. We initially came up with Daphne Colette for baby girl #2. But the more I think about it, the more I worry that Sophie and Daphne sound too similar. What do [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Girl Names Also tagged astrid, beatrix, bettina, billie, brynn, calliope, chloe, cleo, daisy, daphne, darcy, della, gemma, gia, gwen, julianne, kendall, lola, lucy, lyra, maeve, mercedes, mia, molly, nelle, nina, penelope, phoebe, pia, piper, reese, rory, ruby, sophie, stella, sylvie, tamsin
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