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Names from TV Shows and movies

  1. Ginny

    • Origin:

      English, diminutive of Virginia, American place-name and Latin

    • Meaning:

      "virginal"

    • Description:

      Ginny was more common before Jenny and its myriad variants came along.
  2. Arizona

    • Origin:

      Place-name from Papago Indian

    • Meaning:

      "little springs"

    • Description:

      We usually think of place-names as a modern invention, but in fact Arizona ranked on the US Top 1000 from its inception in 1880 until 1911, when it vanished below the surface. It peaked at Number 510 in 1882, before Arizona became a state. One notorious vintage bearer: criminal "Ma" Barker, born Arizona Clark.