Names That Mean Cloak

A growing number of high-profile (and other) parents are choosing to honor their musical idols, such as Hendrix, Presley, Jagger, and now Lennon. 
 
Lennon first came to notice when Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit used it for their son in 1999, and singer-musician Adam Pascal followed their lead in two years later. Thanks in part to female singer and actress Lennon Stella, it's now used about four times as much for girls than for boys.
 Lennon made it onto the popularity list in 2008. 
 In addition to its obvious Beatles connection, Lennon has a nice lemony feel.

Lennon

Seventeenth-century German polymath Johannes Kepler discovered the laws of planetary notion, along with the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. A handful of parents use his last name for their sons every year -- with good reason. It's a solid-feeling but <a href="https://nameberry.com/unique-names">unique name</a> with a great, aspirational namesake.

Kepler

Seventeenth-century German polymath Johannes Kepler discovered the laws of planetary notion, along with the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. Kepler is a solid-feeling but unique gender-neutral name with a great, aspirational namesake.

This geographical name is in the <a href="https://nameberry.com/popular-names/iceland">Icelandic Top 20</a>, inspired by a volcano in southern Iceland. The volcano was named after the Icelandic word for a hooded cloak, since the summit is often covered by clouds.
 
Hekla is still an active volcano, most recently erupting in 2000. In the Middle Ages it was referred to as the "Gateway to Hell"— the birds circling the volcano post-eruption were thought to be souls of the damned.

Names That Mean Cloak

The names

Lennon

Kepler

Kepler

Hekla