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Japanese or Korean
"sky; conch shell"
A simple and pretty multicultural name: as a Japanese name, it's unisex and means "sky"; as a Korean name, it's feminine and means "conch shell".
Aboriginal
"a shell"
Could be seen as a stand-in for Riley, but not nearly as appealing.
Spanish word name, or diminutive of Concepciòn, Latin
"shell; conception"
The Spanish word for "shell" is a new addition to the quickly growing list of ocean-inspired nature names.
Algonquian
"shell money"
The name of a river, an island, a valley, and a variety of other places throughout the US, Roanoke was also the name of a Algonquian-speaking people of North Carolina. Taken from the Algonquian word…
Hebrew
"shell"
A beachy Hebrew nature name, relating to seashells and mother-of-pearl, Tsedef is a cognate of the Arabic Sadaf and Turkish Sedef which share the same meaning. Tzedef is another spelling, used more…