To learn more about Germany, it helps to understand the country's nomenclature. German, unlike the neighboring Romance languages, is famously able to create compound words with ease. It’s the origin ...

When it comes to fierce sounding feminine names that mean light, you can’t go wrong with this moniker, which has Slavic origins and a pleasant meaning of “dawn.” Not to be confused with the Germanic ...

Italian boy names are among some of the most suave names you could give a baby boy. After all, the Italian language is widely considered one of the world's most beautiful-sounding languages with its ...

In a previous piece in these pages, I discussed the importance of the semantics of traditional Jewish female names. In various countries, Jewish women have often had personal names with pleasant ...

In "A Dictionary Of First Names," Patrick Hanks, a lexicographer, onomastician, and corpus linguist, and a team of authors have identified the origin and meaning of more than 6,000 first names. We ...

The 1930s blessed us with jazz, Hollywood glamour, and stunning baby names that have quietly slipped out of fashion. These ...

A feminine name of Latin origin that means “dawn” and has ties to the stunning Northern Lights. When it comes to fierce sounding feminine names that mean light, you can’t go wrong with this moniker, ...