Thalassa is the name of the primordial goddess of the sea in Greek mythology whose name, fittingly, means "sea", which derives from a pre-Greek substrate language. Origin: Ancient Greek
Marisol is Spanish female name, a contracted form of María de la Soledad, a title of the Virgin Mary meaning "Mary of Solitude". It could also be a combination of María (the Spanish form of Hebrew Miriam, a name of unknown meaning though possible meanings ascribed to it are “sea of bitterness”, “rebelliousness” or “obstinacy”, and “wished for child”. It’s also…
The British ocean liner SS Ivernia (1899-1917) made many voyages between Europe and North America during the early 1900s. Various babies were born on board during these years, and at least two of t…
Harbor comes from the English word referring to a body of water along the shore deep enough to anchor ships though it can also be used to describe a shelter or refuge. The origin of the word comes from Old English herebeorg (shelter, refuge; military quarters) via Proto-Germanic *harjabergō (army shelter; refuge) which ultimately derives from a PIE source. Harbor…
So where did Zeppelin come from? “Thinking about [his birth] while thinking about a name, I was like, ‘Hm,’ and I went on to a sailing-knot site, like names of knots,” Ackles explains. “And at the very end was the Zeppelin bend, which was the knot they used to tether the Zeppelin blimps to the ground.”
Continue our tour of the four elements, we now come to the slipperiest, wettest one: Water. Water names, especially ones derived from topographic elements relating to water such as Brooke, River, and Lake, but also other weather-derived names such as Rain, are pretty common in modern anglophone naming practices: But nature names like these are…
Beach boy baby names bring to mind the lazy, hazy days of summer. These seventeen picks tend towards the rare, but they're all wearable for a child today.
Galina is the Russian and Bulgarian feminine form of Galenus, the Latin form of Ancient Greek Galenos meaning "calm, tranquil". In Greek mythology, Galene is a Nereid nymph who was the personification of calm seas. Nicknames: Galya (Russian), Gala (Russian), Gal (English), Gale (English), Lina (English) Origin: Ancient Greek Variants: Galena (Bulgarian, Macedonian) Galene (Ancient Greek) Halina (Polish) Halyna (Ukrainian)…
On September 13, 2010, Patricia Carden gave birth four weeks early while she and her partner, Jerry Linville, were sailing from Jacksonville to Key West through bad weather. (Carden believes that t…
The Polaris Expedition (1871-1873) was one of the many ill-fated early attempts to reach the North Pole. In November of the first year, the ship’s captain, Charles Francis Hall, died — …
In late 1964, a baby boy was born to Maria and Gottfried Spizenberger while they were aboard the ocean liner Berlin en route from Bremerhaven and New York. The Berlin was owned by the North German …
On March 24, 1889, the Danish steamship Danmark began its journey from Europe to America with hundreds of Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian emigrants on board. But the Danmark was discovered in distre…
Take an ancient name with ties to medicine and myth, layer in the seas, a ballerina, an opera singer, and a famous inmate, and you have Galina. Rare, but very wearable for a daughter today.
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