Names That Mean Village

This musical surname, associated with Bing Crosby and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, & Nash could easily be used for girls, as names like Jagger and Bowie have been.

Crosby

America has fallen in love with Hayes and Brooks and Banks and Rhodes, and now, parents are turning to Townes. With its fashionable S ending and image that can read as preppy or country or cowboy, depending on the context, Townes feels destined for mainstream success.
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Given to 116 boys in a recent year, Townes was virtually unheard of as a given name before the 2000s but has been a fast climbing choice since the 2010s. Blending the surname and plural name trends, it has also been used on a small handful of girls in recent years. 
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Townes Van Zandt was a country and folk singer/songwriter.

Townes

Canada is an undiscovered but attractive place-name possibility, sporadically used for girls since the 1970s. Nicknames Cadie, Addie, and Candy, maybe?

Canada

A preppy surname and place name derived from the Anglo-Saxon personal name Ælfweard "elf guardian" + the -by suffix, meaning "village, homestead". Ellerby feels like a quirkier Ellery or Emery.