Archive for the 'Names for Girls' Category

She’s a rarity recently overheard on a Brooklyn playground. Thanks to Photoquilty for suggesting Isaura as Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


The garden of girls contains no bloom more favored than Lily.  Add in the growing interest in appellations française, and what do you get? Thanks to Kristine for suggesting Liliane as Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


Tired of Riley and Bailey?  Here’s another jaunty surname to consider, though it might scream Wild Blue Yonder to some. Thanks to Elta for suggesting Langley as Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


She’s a powerful goddess, a mournful woman, and everything in between. Thanks to Frances for suggesting Mara as Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


We interrupt rerun week to post something a little bit different.  I was certain I’d written a full post about this saint’s name, but instead she’s just mentioned in an early list of obscure saints’ names. Inspired by British PM David Cameron’s new daughter, our Baby Name of the Day is Endellion. Share this: Email [...]


She’s a golden goddess with a musical air. Thanks to Elta for suggesting Aura as Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


Take the fashionably French Vivienne, mix it with the Aussie hipster Matilda, and what do you get? Thanks to Frances for suggesting the appealing Mathilde as Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


Thurston was a shipwrecked billionaire, Thor is a Norse god, and Dustin was big in the 80s.  Could this related name take off today? Thanks to UrbanAngel for suggesting Thorsten as Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


If you saw box office smash Inglorious Basterds, you heard fictional Nazi bad guy Hans Landa call out this name in a grisly, memorable opening sequence. If Stella is a star, why not Shoshanna?  Thanks to Serenity for suggesting our Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


Confession: I play name games.  When stuck cooling my heels waiting for something, or in a meeting so deadly dull I think my soul might leave my body, I find my pen scrawling names. Here’s a recent one – an A-to-Z list of Single Syllable Names for Girls.  I stalled out on a few letters.  [...]