What would you name a little [name]Sailor[/name]?
I’m loving the name [name]Harbor[/name] lately. Trying to bring my husband around to the idea…
ooo nice! very unusual and masculine sounding I was thinking [name]Rowan[/name]? [name]Kinda[/name] sounds like row. And of course [name]Sailor[/name], but i couldnt use that because it reminds me of [name]Sailor[/name] [name]Moon[/name].
Boys
[name]Sailor[/name]
[name]Sawyer[/name]
[name]Nelson[/name]
[name]Jack[/name]
Girls
[name]Sailor[/name]
[name]Atlanta[/name]
[name]Oceane[/name]
I really love [name]Marina[/name] and for something a little less obvious, [name]Cordelia[/name] means daughter of the sea
- [name]Elena[/name]
I like [name]Sawyer[/name] and [name]Jack[/name], and [name]Cordelia[/name]. Any others??!
[name]DYLAN[/name]
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, English, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: DUL-an (Welsh), DIL-?n (English) [key]
From the Welsh elements dy “great” and llanw “tide, flow”. In Welsh mythology [name]Dylan[/name] was a god or hero associated with the sea. He was the son of Arianrhod and was accidentally slain by his uncle Govannon.
[name]MEREDITH[/name]
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: MER-?-dith (English) [key]
From the Welsh name Maredudd or Meredydd, possibly meaning “great lord” or “sea lord”. Since the mid-1920s it has been used more often for girls than for boys in English-speaking countries, though it is still a masculine name in [name]Wales[/name].
[name]MORGAN[/name] (1)
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English, French
Pronounced: MAWR-g?n (English) [key]
From the Old Welsh masculine name Morcant, which was possibly derived from Welsh mor “sea” and cant “circle”. Since the 1980s in [name]America[/name] [name]Morgan[/name] has been more common for girls than boys, perhaps due to stories of [name]Morgan[/name] le [name]Fay[/name].
[name]MIRA[/name] (1)
Gender: Feminine
Usage: [name]Indian[/name]
Other Scripts: ??? (Hindi, Sanskrit)
Means “sea, ocean” in Sanskrit. This was the name of a 16th-century [name]Indian[/name] princess who devoted her life to the god [name]Krishna[/name].
[name]NERISSA[/name]
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Created by [name]Shakespeare[/name] for a character in his play ‘The Merchant of [name]Venice[/name]’ (1596). He possibly took it from Greek ??? (Nereis) meaning “nymph, sea sprite”, ultimately derived from the name of the Greek sea god [name]NEREUS[/name], who supposedly fathered them.
[name]ELMO[/name]
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, [name]German[/name], Italian
Pronounced: [name]EL[/name]-mo [key]
Originally a short form of Germanic names that began with the element helm meaning “helmet, protection”. It is also a derivative of [name]ERASMUS[/name], via the old Italian diminutive Ermo. [name]Saint[/name] [name]Elmo[/name], also known as [name]Saint[/name] [name]Erasmus[/name], was a 4th-century martyr who is the patron of sailors. [name]Saint[/name] [name]Elmo[/name]'s fire is said to be a sign of his protection.
[name]MAYA[/name] (3)
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: ??? (Hebrew)
Derived from Hebrew ??? (mayim) “water”.
[name]TALLULAH[/name]
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: t?-LOO-l? [key]
Popularly claimed to mean “leaping waters” in the Choctaw language, it may actually mean “town” in the Creek language. This is the name of waterfalls in [name]Georgia[/name]. It was borne by American actress [name]Tallulah[/name] Bankhead (1902-1968), who was named after her grandmother, who may have been named after the waterfalls.
[name]UNDINE[/name]
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Derived from Latin unda meaning “wave”. The word undine was created by the medieval author Paracelsus, who used it for female water spirits.
[name]Undine[/name] reminds me:
My brother made a comic with an undersea theme and characters named [name]Morgan[/name] (male), [name]Marvin[/name], [name]Osbert[/name] and [name]Undine[/name]. Not sure how [name]Osbert[/name] got in there. Interestingly, I now remember that he used the name [name]Osbert[/name] for a sailor another time.