City Names for Babies

Tangier
- Origin:
  Place name
- Description:
  Unexplored Moroccan place name, conjuring up images of camels and palm trees and domed minarets.
Galway
- Origin:
  Place-name
- Description:
  Associated with the poet and novelist Galway Kinnell, this name of an Irish city, county, and bay would make an evocative choice. For further literary cred, writers Liam O'Flaherty and Frank Harris both hail from Galway.

Puebla
- Origin:
  Spanish
- Meaning:
  "the town"
- Description:
  Sandy southwestern feel.
Luanda
- Origin:
  African place-name
- Description:
  This name of Angola's capital city has occasionally been used for baby girls.
Philadelphia
- Origin:
  Greek place-name
- Meaning:
  "brotherly love"
- Description:
  Place-name mentioned in the New Testament and not yet on the name map. Philadelphia Thursday was the character played by Shirley Temple in John Ford's 1948 "Fort Apache."

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