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ABC Baby Name Favorites


This is a list of my favorite boy name and my favorite girl name for each letter of the alphabet. All name meanings were found on behindthename.com.

(girl, boy)



Athena, Abram- Athena has an unknown meaning; Abram means "high father".
Briley, Boyd- Briley is a variant of Brylee, which is a combination of Briana and Lee. Briana is a feminine form of Brian possibly meaning "hill" or "high noble" and Lee means "clear"; Boyd is a Scottish surname.
Claire, Clark- Claire is a french form of Clara meaning "clear, bright, famous"; Clark is from an English surname meaning "cleric" or "scribe".
Diana, Darius- Diana possibly means "heavenly, divine"; Darius means "to possess" and "good".
Ember, Elias- Ember is a word name; Elias is a cognate of Elijah meaning "my God is Yahweh".
Freya, Florian- Freya means "lady"; Florian is a derivative of Florus meaning "flower".
Georgia, George- Georgia and George both mean "farmer, earthworker".
Heidi, Heath- Heidi is a diminutive of Adelheid, which is a form of Adelaide meaning "noble" and "kind, sort, type"; Heath is an English surname.
Ida, Issachar- Ida means "work, labor"; Issachar means "hireling".
Jane, Jasper- Jane is a feminine form of John meaning "Yahweh is gracious"; Jasper means "treasurer".
Kara, Kade- Kara is a variant of Cara meaning "beloved"; Kade is a variant of Cade which is a surname.
Lavender, Laytham- Lavender is the name of the color and the plant; (not on behindthename.com) Laytham is a variant of the surname Latham meaning "barn" or "dwells by the barn".
Meg, Marcus- Meg is a diminutive of Margaret meaning "pearl" or Megara, which possibly is a variant of Megaera meaning "to grudge" or dervived from megaron meaning "large, great, marvelous"; Marcus means "male".
Nova, Nashua- Nova means "new" in Latin;(not on behindthename.com) Nashua possibly means "river with the pebble bottom".
Opal, Orion- Opal means "jewel"; Orion possibly means "boundary, limit" or "light of the heavens".
Petra, Pierce- Petra is a feminine form of Peter meaning "stone"; Pierce is dervived from the given name Piers, which is also a form of Peter meaning "stone".
Rumena, Ronan- Rumena is a feminine form of Rumen meaning "ruddy, red-cheeked"; Ronan means "little seal".
Shelby, Silas- Shelby is from a surname which is possibly a variant of Selby meaning "willow farm"; Silas is probably a short form of Silvanus meaning "wood, forest".
Twyla, Titus- Twyla is a variant of Twila which is possibly based on the English word twilight; Titus has an unknown meaning, but it possibly means "title of honor". 
Ursa, Uriah- Ursa is a feminine form of Ursus meaning "bear"; Uriah means "Yahweh is my light".
Verity, Valor- Verity is a word name meaning "verity, truth"; Valor is a word name meaning "bravery, courage".
Wren, Walton- Wren is the name of a small songbird; Walton means "stream town", "wood town" or "wall town".
Zora, Zephyr- Zora means "dawn, aurora"; Zephyr means "the west wind".
Iff anyone wants to you can comment below and tell me your favorite names from this list or your favorite names in general.
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