Squidward Tentacles
Gender: Masculine
Origin: English
Meaning: “Guardian of the squids.”
Pronunciation: (SKWID-wawrd)
Nicknames: Squid, Squido
Detail: Formed from the combination of the English squid and from Old English weard meaning “guard”.
This name is now associated with Squidward Tentacles, one of the sea creatures from Spongebob Squarepants.
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Gender: Feminine
Origin: Slavic
Meaning: “Snowy.”
Pronunciation: (sney-ZHAH-nah)
Nicknames: Sne, Snea, Jana
Detail: Derived from the Slavic word snežan meaning “snowy”.
Variations:
Gender: Masculine
Origin: Latin
Meaning: “Love of God.”
Pronunciation: (ahm-uh-DAY-us)
Nicknames: Amo, Amadeo, Deo
Detail: Derived from Latin amare “to love” and Deus “God”.
A famous bearer was the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Gender: Masculine
Origin: Old English
Meaning: “Blessed spear.”
Pronunciation: (ED-gahr)
Nicknames: Ed, Eddy
Detail: Derived from the Old English elements ead “rich, blessed” and gar “spear”.
This was the name of a 10th-century English king who is regarded as a saint.
Famous bearers include author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Gender: Masculine
Origin: Germanic
Meaning: “Wolf path.”
Pronunciation: Eng (WUWLF-gang); Ger (VAWLF-gahng)
Nicknames: Wolf
Detail: Derived from the Germanic elements wulf meaning “wolf” and gang “path”. Famous bearer of this name was Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Slavic
Meaning: “Rule.”
Pronunciation: (VLAH-duh)
Details: Old short form of Slavic names beginning with the element volod meaning “rule”.
Vlad Dracula, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia, was Bram Stoker’s inspiration for the name of his vampire, Count Dracula.
Gender: Masculine
Origin: Germanic
Meaning: “Noble Wolf.”
Pronunciation: (AH-dawlf)
Nicknames: Ado, Dolf, Alf, Alfie
Detail: From the Germanic name Adalwolf, which meant “noble wolf” from the Germanic elements adal “noble” and wulf.
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Is Adolf forever off limits? Middle name? How about his variations? How strongly do you feel about this name?
I think he is very handsome, however some people have gone as far to say that they would “doubt the morality of such a person” who would bear this name onto a child. I find this a bit on the extreme side.
Will this forever be my tainted love?
Gender: Masculine
Origin: Armenian
Meaning: “Comes with his sword.”
Pronunciation: (SOOF-yahn)
Nicknames: Suf, Sufi
Detail: Famous bearer of this name is Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith, a figure from early Islamic history and Sufjan Stevens, an American musician, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Greek
Meaning: “Gift of the Muses.”
Pronunciation: (myoo-see-DOR-ah)
Nicknames: Musi, Muse, Sidda, Dora
Detail: Character in the Harry Potter Series.
Also the stage name of Jeanne Roques, a popular French silent film actress.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Welsh
Pronunciation: (NIM-oo-ay)
Nicknames: Nim, Moon
Detail: A moon goddess who was sometimes called Lady of the Lake. The Lady of the Lake is usually referred to by various spellings of the names Nimue or Vivienne.
Nimue is thought to be related to Mneme, the shortened form of Mnemosyne, one of the nine water-nymph Muses of Roman and Greek Mythology who gave weapons, not unlike Arthur‘s sword, to the heroic Perseus.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Native American
Meaning: “Circling around.”
Pronunciation: (NOOT-kah)
Nicknames: Noot, Nutella
Detail: When James Cook (British explorer) first encountered the villagers at Yuquot in 1778, they directed him to “come around” (in their language “nootka”) with his ship to the harbour. Cook interpreted this as the name of their tribe. In 1981 the term Nuu-Chah-Nulth (meaning “all along the mountains”) was chosen as the new name of the tribe.
Gender: Masculine; Feminine
Origin: Greek
Meaning: “Earth worker.”
Pronunciation: (JORJ); (JOR-juh)
Nicknames: Georgie, Gia, Gee
Detail: This state was named in honor of King George II of England.
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Origin: Latin
Meaning: “Feet first.”
Pronunciation: (ah-GRIH-pah)
Nicknames: Rippa, Pippa
Gender: Masculine
Origin: Gaelic
Meaning: “Son of one without envy; Son of a freeman.”
Pronunciation: (KUR-mit)
Nicknames: Kerm, Kermie, Kurt
Detail: From the Irish surname Mac Dhiarmaid, which means “son of Diarmaid”. Diarmaid (DEER-mid) means either “freeman” or “without envy” in Irish. Dermot would be English speaker friendly spelling of Diarmaid.
This name is now associated with Kermit the Frog, one of the Muppets created by puppeteer Jim Henson.
Gender: Masculine
Origin: American
Meaning: “Humble.”
Pronunciation: (HUHK-uhl-ber-ee)
Nicknames: Huck
Detail: Both in agriculture and in the American vocabulary, the huckleberry has been humble. In 1800s America, huckleberry meant “a small thing.”
Huckleberry was chosen for the title role in one of the most well-known American novels, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
Gender: Masculine; Feminine
Origin: Latin
Meaning: “Horned.”
Pronunciation: (kor-NEE-lee-us); (kor-NEE-lee-ah)
Nicknames: Lia, Corn, Nelia, Neli, Nell
Detail: Derived from the Latin cornu which means “horn”.
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Gender: Masculine
Origin: English / Spanish / Germanic
Meaning: “A man, barberry tree, fortified hill.”
Pronunciation: (AR-loh)
Nicknames: Ar, Arl, Lo
Detail: There are several origins of the name:
An Italian variant of the German Charles meaning “man”
The Spanish word for the “barberry tree”
An Old English variant of Harlow, derived from the Anglo-Saxon words here and hlaw meaning “army hill”
Gender: Masculine
Origin: Danish
Meaning: “Fight; War.”
Pronunciation: (VEE-go)
Nicknames: Vig
Detail: Viggo developed from the Old Danish name Vigge, containing the element vig meaning “fight, war”
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Latin
Meaning: “Adorable.”
Pronunciation: (mih-RAN-da)
Nicknames: Mira, Miri, Mia,
Detail: The name is derived from the root word mirari “to admire; to wonder at”; it was invented by Shakespeare for the daughter of Prospero in his play The Tempest.
Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus’ five major moons.
Evangeline Lilly
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Greek
Meaning: “Good news.”
Pronunciation: (ee-VAN-jeh-leen)
Nicknames: Eva, Eve, Evie, Lina
