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HelpRe: Favorite names not in database?
in reply to a message by Caprice
Obscure names, especially not in the database or having any real usage as a name, are my FAVORITE! :) I shall be scouring this thread for new ones. From your list I like:
Amorina
Caparina
Ellemina
Nápla - OOOHHHH
Rosewen
Sophannagh
My list (and sorry, didn't cross check if any are user-submitted):
Achsah - Hebrew/Puritan for anklet, bangle; clicking sound of bangles
Amapola - Spanish for poppy
Amana - an Amish town in Iowa near where my family is from
Cantara - Spanish for sing
Coloma - town by me, named for a flower, Catalan form of Paloma
Fennore - Anglicized Fionuir, Irish, "white ghost"
Fínmhidh - (FIN-vee) Irish, "wine-mead"
Flordeperla - Spanish "flower of pearl"
Gala - the word, not what's linked
Garden - the word, not what's linked
Havendance - the name of a song by composer/director David Holsinger, named for his daughter, Haven
Hyssmaye - an English name probably from the continental Germanic name Ismagi
Leviva - from Léofgifu, Old English léof "love" + gifu "gift"
Merewen - from the Old English name, Mærwynn, meaning "great, splendid" and -wynn is feminine of wine/"friend"
Quitterie - French form of Quiteria, a Spanish saint. Assume it's related to Quitar, meaning "to remove"
Tallis - a surname, got the idea from the book/movie Atonement, though it also makes me think of Thomas Tallis
Wentliana - medieval English variant of Gwenllian
Adalfieri - Italian, from German "noble oath"
Affaith - AF-ee, lost my info on it, I think it's Scottish
Airril - same... either that or this one is Scottish D:
Beriah - Hebrew, unsure of meaning. Something about with a friend or with fellowship. Found it in my family tree.
Campion - a flower, got the name idea from Edward Campion, a Catholic martyr
Delos - Appears twice in two unrelated branches of my family tree, it's an island in Greece but no idea why it was used by my ancestors
Delphinium - the flower
Flannacha - Irish... too lazy to go look up, I want to say it meant "red warrior" but that doesn't make sense
Friar
Galien - a town(ship)/stream near me
Grayling - a town with significance to me, named for the fish
Gwalchgwyn - Welsh, "white falcon"
Hallward - I’m going to say this is an Anglicization of Halvard, which is Old Norse for “rock guardian,” although I like to think it could be Anglo-Saxon for literally Hall-ward. As in what you’d yell when you were storming a castle and wanted everyone to run toward the hall. Hahaha
Iginio - Italian form of Hyginus
Isle
Marn(e) - French for marl, also a town in my area, also without the e is a video game character
Mered - Hebrew "rebellion," he was the husband of Bithiah, the foster mother of Moses.
Merthin - Anglicization of Myrddin, used in a Ken Follett book
Oro - Spanish for gold
Overwien - East Frisian for "stream/river friend"
Quatermain - as in Allan Quatermain
Sachiel - name of a type of angel
Sallah - the character from Indiana Jones
Samhrán - Irish "summer person"
Tarn - an old English word for a mountain pond
Tegwared - a figure in Welsh history, can't find info but by my conclusion it's teg "fair/beautiful" + gwared "deliverance/salvation"
Vivion - Eamon de Valera had a son by this name, I just liked the spelling a lot
Wilder - surname
Yukon - Yukon Cornelius, anyone?!
Amorina
Caparina
Ellemina
Nápla - OOOHHHH
Rosewen
Sophannagh
My list (and sorry, didn't cross check if any are user-submitted):
Achsah - Hebrew/Puritan for anklet, bangle; clicking sound of bangles
Amapola - Spanish for poppy
Amana - an Amish town in Iowa near where my family is from
Cantara - Spanish for sing
Coloma - town by me, named for a flower, Catalan form of Paloma
Fennore - Anglicized Fionuir, Irish, "white ghost"
Fínmhidh - (FIN-vee) Irish, "wine-mead"
Flordeperla - Spanish "flower of pearl"
Gala - the word, not what's linked
Garden - the word, not what's linked
Havendance - the name of a song by composer/director David Holsinger, named for his daughter, Haven
Hyssmaye - an English name probably from the continental Germanic name Ismagi
Leviva - from Léofgifu, Old English léof "love" + gifu "gift"
Merewen - from the Old English name, Mærwynn, meaning "great, splendid" and -wynn is feminine of wine/"friend"
Quitterie - French form of Quiteria, a Spanish saint. Assume it's related to Quitar, meaning "to remove"
Tallis - a surname, got the idea from the book/movie Atonement, though it also makes me think of Thomas Tallis
Wentliana - medieval English variant of Gwenllian
Adalfieri - Italian, from German "noble oath"
Affaith - AF-ee, lost my info on it, I think it's Scottish
Airril - same... either that or this one is Scottish D:
Beriah - Hebrew, unsure of meaning. Something about with a friend or with fellowship. Found it in my family tree.
Campion - a flower, got the name idea from Edward Campion, a Catholic martyr
Delos - Appears twice in two unrelated branches of my family tree, it's an island in Greece but no idea why it was used by my ancestors
Delphinium - the flower
Flannacha - Irish... too lazy to go look up, I want to say it meant "red warrior" but that doesn't make sense
Friar
Galien - a town(ship)/stream near me
Grayling - a town with significance to me, named for the fish
Gwalchgwyn - Welsh, "white falcon"
Hallward - I’m going to say this is an Anglicization of Halvard, which is Old Norse for “rock guardian,” although I like to think it could be Anglo-Saxon for literally Hall-ward. As in what you’d yell when you were storming a castle and wanted everyone to run toward the hall. Hahaha
Iginio - Italian form of Hyginus
Isle
Marn(e) - French for marl, also a town in my area, also without the e is a video game character
Mered - Hebrew "rebellion," he was the husband of Bithiah, the foster mother of Moses.
Merthin - Anglicization of Myrddin, used in a Ken Follett book
Oro - Spanish for gold
Overwien - East Frisian for "stream/river friend"
Quatermain - as in Allan Quatermain
Sachiel - name of a type of angel
Sallah - the character from Indiana Jones
Samhrán - Irish "summer person"
Tarn - an old English word for a mountain pond
Tegwared - a figure in Welsh history, can't find info but by my conclusion it's teg "fair/beautiful" + gwared "deliverance/salvation"
Vivion - Eamon de Valera had a son by this name, I just liked the spelling a lot
Wilder - surname
Yukon - Yukon Cornelius, anyone?!
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Ohh, your ancestors were Amanites? That's so cool! I love reading about all kinds of religious "societies", like Amish, Hutterites, Doukhobors, etc.
Great list, BTW! I wish I could like Amapola, but it makes me think of anabolic steroids...
Great list, BTW! I wish I could like Amapola, but it makes me think of anabolic steroids...
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Not that family branch, but on my dad's side there are two branches from Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, who were Mennonites.
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Ah, I see.
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