Baby Names

This category mixes two genuinely different things, and most competing lists blur them together: names whose established etymology…

This category is smaller and more specific than most naming themes, drawing mostly from mythological and religious figures…

Fire names span a genuine range of tones, from soft and warm to intense and mythological, which makes…

Natalie is a Latin-origin girl’s name meaning “Christmas Day,” from the Latin phrase natale domini, referring to the…

Noah is a Hebrew-origin boy’s name most commonly read as meaning “rest,” though a second scholarly theory ties…

Oliver is most commonly associated with “olive tree,” from the Latin “oliva,” though its exact etymology is genuinely…

Rebecca is a Hebrew-origin girl’s name commonly read as meaning “to bind” or “to tie,” the name of…

Riley genuinely has two separate origin stories rather than one settled meaning: an English reading of “rye clearing,”…

Samuel is a Hebrew-origin boy’s name meaning “God has heard,” or in some readings, “name of God.” Meaning…

Silas is a Latin-origin boy’s name commonly read as meaning “wood” or “forest,” believed to stem from Silvanus,…