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Moxie
English slang
"aggressive energy, know-how"
Like Penn Jillette, you can have your own little brash babe.
Monhegan
Morrill
Morse
Orland
Orland is a masculine name deriving from the Old French 'Roland,' which comes from Germanic elements meaning 'fame' and 'land,' suggesting 'famous throughout the land.' The name gained significant…
Palmyra
Greek, place name
"palm tree; pilgrim"
An ancient city in modern-day Syria, which occasionally makes the roster of girl names. Its etymology is uncertain — locally it is called Tadmor, and Palmyra is the Greek version — but it has…
Reade
Reade is a masculine name of English origin functioning as both a surname and given name. Derived from the Old English 'read' meaning 'red,' it was historically a nickname for someone with red hair…
Richmond
German
"powerful protector"
Richmond is a place-name — it's the capital of Virginia, US, and a town in London, UK — that makes a fresh way to honor an ancestral Richard.
Riply
Riply is a masculine name representing a modern variation of Ripley, which originated as an Old English surname meaning 'strip of clearing in the woods.' This contemporary spelling with a 'y' ending…
Robie
Robie is a masculine name with Germanic origins, functioning as a diminutive form of Robert. The name Robert derives from the Germanic elements 'hrod' meaning 'fame' and 'beraht' meaning 'bright',…
Reny
Sidney
English from French
"Saint Denis"
While Sidney in this spelling has a long history as a girls' name, it fell off the Top 1000 from the early 50s until 1990. Then it reemerged as one of the newly chic androgynous names for girls,…
Verona
Italian place-name
Verona is a scenic place-name with the added attraction of a Shakespearean connection, as in Two Gentlemen of ....
Waldo
German, pet form of names such as Waldemar
"to rule"
Its jaunty o-ending makes this name more appealing than most of its Germanic brothers, and we hope we're beyond the constant response to his name being "Where's Waldo?" The weighty reputation of…
Winthrop
English
"friend's village"
Proper Bostonian.
Weld
Togus
Trescott
Trenton
English, place-name
"Trent's town"
There's only one Trenton, New Jersey, but it's a widely used name, more for its fashionable -on ending than the reference to the city. Since 2007, however, Trenton has been on a steady decline.…
Winn
Winn is a concise masculine name with English roots, functioning as both a standalone name and a shortened form of names like Winston, Winslow, or Edwin. Derived from Old English elements, it can be…