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Westend61/Getty Images. 5. Hazel. This name of English origin refers to the hazel tree and is associated with protection and authority. It’s also a fitting choice for a girl with the striking ...
100 Nature Baby Names. Whether you are inspired by the outdoors or hoping your son or daughter will grow up loving nature, here are 100 nature baby names to consider for your new arrival: River ...
Caspian — A boy's name taken from the large salty sea between Europe and Asia. Cordelia — Celtic girl name meaning “daughter of the sea”. Mira — A multicultural name with many origins ...
List of animal names. Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California. In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on ...
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Many star names are, in origin, descriptive of the part in the constellation they are found in; thus Phecda, a corruption of Arabic فخذ الدب ( fakhdh ad-dubb, 'thigh of the bear'). Only a handful of the brightest stars have individual proper names not depending on their asterism; so Sirius ('the scorcher'), Antares ('rival of Ares ', i.e ...
"It's different for boys, there was a time when names like Richard and Robert were dominant." Wattenberg notes that for the first time since the 1800s, R is not a Biblical letter for girls.