Goddess & Mythical Names For Baby Girls Calliope Daphne Diana Freya Iris Juno Penelope Venus Mystical & Fantasy Girl Names Cassandra Layla Maeve Phoenix Powerful & Badass Girl Names Alexis (Greek name meaning “defending man”; variant of the Greek boy name“Alexander”) Amirah (Hebrew and Arabic...
“The parents look for ways to add something formal, even when a name was a perfectly full name to begin with,” says Wattenberg. “It’s purely a parent’s sense of the name not feeling like it’s enough.” Professor Cleveland Evans, an onomastics expert at Bellevue ...
Even ancient scholars were at a loss to account for the name's origin. Plato suggested "that the name Hermes has to do with speech, and signifies that he is the interpreter," thanks to its similarity to ερμενηυς (hermenus) "interpretor." However, it is now believed thatherm...