Literary Names, Meanings, and their History

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Acira (uh-see-rah)

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spanish quick italian rare artistic girl swift

acira name meaning

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Affery (Af-feh-ree)

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english baby english-literature unisex rare literary

affery name meaning

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Aldous (AL-duhs)

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intellectual masculine male literary boy educated english

aldous name meaning

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Algernon (AL-jər-non)

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literary boy fictional french-english french male masculine

algernon name meaning

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Alumit (ah-LOO-mit)

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rare girl hebrew-israeli literary feminine israeli female

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Arden (AHR-dən)

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surname unisex english gender-neutral baby nature literary

arden name meaning

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Arundhathi (uh-run-dha-thee)

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fame literary feminine female traditional telugu kannada

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Beatrix (BEE-ah-triks)

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spanish-croatian french-slovak slovak-swedish serbian-bulgarian portuguese-bulgarian scottish-italian greek-portuguese

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Bibhutibhusan (bi-boo-tee-boo-shun)

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boy hindu male writer indian-bengali baby bengali

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Carroll (/ˈkærəl/)

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irish-english scottish literary irish english-scottish scottish-english baby

carroll name meaning

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Colette (koh-let)

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haitian creole-french kirundi female haitian creole-kirundi feminine french-kirundi kirundi-haitian creole

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Cordelia (kawr-DEE-lee-ə)

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shakespearean feminine english literary girl neutral female

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