Names That Mean Meadow

Surname name with feminine final ley. The Welsh name Bryn, though also unisex and veering toward the girl world, is far more attractive.

Leeanne is one of those names with a dizzying number of variations. This one feels like it's got at least one extra vowel.

Huntley was best known as Brinkley's news partner several decades ago. With the new genre of girls' names that are unusual surnames ending with the lee sound -- think Mosley, Yardley -- Huntley or Huntlea or Huntleigh might rise for girls.

English surname that's very rarely found as a first name. The Colorado city was named after Horace Greeley, the nineteenth-century congressman and founder of the New-York Tribune.

Chelsea with dyslexia.

The cake company pretty much knocked this otherwise-pretty compilation name out of consideration for most parents.

Modern combination of two popular sounds, but the name itself is very rare.

An emerging unisex surname name. Radley is more common for boys — it could be seen as an updated version of Bradley — but for girls, it's a rare alternative to Hadley and Adley.

Variant of Marylee

The most feminine way to spell Bentley.

Likable Irish surname name, but bound to be confused with Clooney.

As a first name, Atlee is a common choice in the Amish community.

Alternative spelling of Wesley, more commonly given to girls.

Ashley lost some of her substance.

The meaning of Mary is uncertain, but theories include "drop of the sea" (from Hebrew roots mar "drop" and yam "sea"); "bitter" (from Hebrew marah "bitterness"); and "beloved" (from the Egyptian root mr).

Brenley: a compound of trendy syllables or Brinley variation? It's totally up to you. It was chosen by American Idol contestant Triston Harper and his wife Paris Reed for their daughter in 2025.

Cheerful and distinctive.

Sounds like an authentic upper-crust family name -- not necessarily a bad thing.

Often seen as a part of Arabic place names, such as Rawda Island in Cairo and Al-Rawda Square in Damascus.

Huntley is among the most evenly-split gender-neutral names, while Huntleigh is virtually all girl. Huntleigh is actually more common than the original.