This is a list of submitted names in which the usage is English; and a substring is a.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Scholar m EnglishIt means "scholar", referring to a student or to someone intelligent.
Scotland m & f EnglishFrom the name of the country
Scotland, meaning "land of the Scots", from Latin
Scoti meaning "Gaelic speaker".
Sea f EnglishEnglish vocabulary and nature name meaning "body of salt water".
Season f English (Rare)Either derived from the English word
season, and thus ultimately from Latin
satio "sowing; planting" (which later came to be understood as "time of planting"), or a transferred use of the surname
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Sedona f English (American)In the United States, this name is usually given in honour of the city of Sedona in Arizona. The city itself had been named after Sedona Arabella Schnebly (née Miller), who was the wife of Theodore Carlton Schnebly, the city's first postmaster... [
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Seena f English (Rare)In the case of Danish-American silent film actress Seena Owen (1894-1966), it was an Anglicized form of
Signe, her birth name. It could also be a short form of
Thomasina and other names featuring this sound.
Selnia f EnglishUsed by Selnia Flameheart in the manga Ladies vs butlers
Sestina f English (American), Franco-Provençal, SpanishComes from the American surname Sestina. A sestina is “a type of poem that originated in France in the 12th century. The poem is credited to Arnaut Daniel, a Provençal troubadour who lived from 1180-1200... [
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Shade m & f EnglishFrom the English word
shade or transferred use of the surname
Shade, which may be a topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary (from the Old English
scead "boundary") or a nickname for a thin man, (from the Middle English
schade, "shadow", "wraith") or an Americanized spelling of the German and Dutch surname
Schade.
Shadoe m English (American, Rare)Variant of
Shadow. It was brought to limited public attention in 1988 by Shadoe Stevens (real name Terry Ingstad), who hosted the radio program American Top 40 from 1988 to 1995.
Shalamar f & m English (Rare), Filipino (Rare)Alternate transcription of Arabic / Urdu شالامار باغ (see
Shalimar). Though the name began to be used (in very small numbers) in America in the 1950s and 1960s, it gained some recognition there in 1980 following the release of the song "Three for Love" by the R&B group of the same name.
Shalyn f EnglishThis name either means silence or beautiful woman.
Shaohannah f American, EnglishSupposedly a combination of the (mispelled) Chinese word
xiao (笑), meaning "smile" or "laugh" and the Hebrew
Hannah, meaning "grace". This is the name of Steven Curtis Chapman's daughter... [
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