In 2014 I featured a series of blog posts introducing you to 2,014 names. For the most part they were names that were brand new to me as well. Some names may be more familiar but I found the meaning or origin or some other aspect of the name made it worthy of inclusion here. You may love some of the names, you may hate some, but hopefully you enjoy learning about all of them.

Friday, April 25, 2014

A Sprinkling of Names

GIRLS

Haylyn 
Cyprus, a view of the sun
Idalí - Spanish form of Idalia, which probably comes from the Greek Idalium, the name of an ancient city of Cyprus. There is a city there now called Dali. An early form of the name of the city was Ed-di-al. According to legend, the name would mean "I saw the sun".

Another possible connection is to



It is also possible that the name comes from the Basque word "idia" meaning "ox".

Idalí is said in Spanish "ih thah LEE".

Lavandula - Latin, meaning "lavender". It may derive from "lavare" meaning to wash, since lavender was used in this process, or to "livere" meaning "blueish". 



BOYS

Mahmud- Arabic, meaning "the praised one".


Nahum  - from the Hebrew "nacham" meaning "comforter".

Osvaldo - Spanish, from the Anglo-Saxon name Oswald, from "os" meaning "god" and "weald" meaning "power" or "ruler".


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