New to me, new to you too?

Here are some names I've come across just in the last week that I had not heard before, or so little they seemed new.

Girls

Fergusia- a feminine form of the Gaelic name Fergus, meaning "brave man".


Robina-feminine form of Robin, which is both the name of the bird and an English nickname for the Germanic name Robert, which comes from "hrod" meaning "fame" and "bert" meaning "bright". Robina, according to britishbabynames.com was popular in Scotland in the 17th century. This is how I encountered the name (a Scottish woman from that time period). Unfortunately, I still do not know how it is pronounced.


Boys

Melanchthon- according to information contributed to behindthename.com, this honors the Protestant Phillip Melanchthon, who was German and translated his German last name into Greek using melanos meaning black and chthon meaning earth or land or soil (the German name was Swartzerdt).


Salmon-

Wrixham - Anglo Saxon, from Writtlesham, which comes from "wreoth" meaning "wreath" and "ham" meaning "home" or "dwelling" (Christina Blackie's Geographical Etymology: A Dictionary of Place-names Giving their Derivations gives the meaning as "town of wreaths". Wrixham is spelled as Wrexham in her book).


Grashinham-