Rare Place Names
- Danube
Origin:
River nameDescription:
Some parents are turning to rivers and other bodies of water in the search for undiscovered place-names, and this has the feel of a Viennese waltz.
- Guernsey
Origin:
Place-nameDescription:
The name of an island in the English Channel that might make an attractive first name, but would work better for a boy.
- Majorca
Origin:
Spanish place nameDescription:
Pronounced my-ORK-a, the name of this lovely Balearic Island, located in the Mediterranean, is one of the prettiest and most feminine of place names. The Spanish spelling is MALLORCA.
- Cathay
Origin:
Anglicized version of Italian Catai; place nameDescription:
A perfect example of what a difference a single letter can make. Add an 'a' to the ho-hum CATHY and you have the old name for China, often used by such poets as Edna St. Vincent Millay and Ezra Pound.
- Sweden
Origin:
Place-nameDescription:
Unlikely to make it onto the name map.