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Name	M/F	Remark	Rating
Alex	m & f	94/06; Greek "defending men"; see Alexander	(20 votes)
Alexander	m	Greek "defending men"; family name; A. Fleming, disc'd penicillin, I wouldn't've been born w/o it; A. Graham Bell, inv'd telephone; A. Volta, inv'd batteries; peaked at just 1% in 1993; 4-233	(25 votes)
Alexandra	f	Greek "defending men"; variant of family name; nn Xandra & Xanna; peaked 0.5% in 1993	(23 votes)
Amaryllis	f	Greek "to sparkle"; never listed	(19 votes)
Amelia	f	German "work", Amelia Earhart, pilot; Amelia Bloomer, feminist; most popular now	(21 votes)
Apollonia	f	C05; nn Apple & Pony	(20 votes)
Arden	m & f	60/40; sounds similar to "ardent" and "garden"; forested areas in England and France; local placename; Mary Arden was the mother of Shakespeare	(18 votes)
Artemisia	f	Greek "safe" or "butcher"; goddess of moon and hunting; medicinal herb; Renaissance feminist painter, nn's Mizzy, Aria, Artsy, Temmy, Mimi; never ranked	(18 votes)
Arthur	m	most likely meaning is from Celtic "bear king", possibly related to Arcturus, the brightest star in Ursa Major, or a Roman name possibly meaning "plowman" (though not likely); peaked 1.4% in 1880's	(20 votes)
August	m	Latin "great, venerable"; peaked 0.2% in 1882, rising now	(20 votes)
Augustine 1	m & f	65/35; C03	(16 votes)
Beatrix	f	Beatrix Potter, naturalist; means "traveler" or "happy"; nn Bea & Trixie	(18 votes)
Carmen	f	Hebrew "garden" and Latin "song"; peaked 0.1% in 1968	(17 votes)
Carmine	m	derived from Hebrew "garden", Latin "song", and Persian "red", ultimately from Sanskrit "worm"	(16 votes)
Clara	f	C 3	(17 votes)
Clémentine	f	Latin "merciful, gentle"; peaked at 0.2% in 1880's, rising now	(14 votes)
Cole	m	Old English "charcoal", also short for Nicholas; peaked 0.3% in 2002	(14 votes)
Douglas	m	David Douglas, local botanist; Frederick Douglass, abolitionist & suffragist; means "dark water"	(16 votes)
Emma	f	German "whole, universal"; Emmy Noether, mathematician; Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin; Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragist; peak of 2% in 1880, currently just over 1%	(18 votes)
Evander 1	m	Greek "good man"; briefly ranked 1895	(15 votes)
Fae	f	means "fairy", from Latin "fate", from PIE "speech". Fae Zephyrine	(12 votes)
Felicity	f	Latin "happiness"; actress in Good Neighbors; nn Liz, Filly, Fizzy; most popular now	(17 votes)
Felix	m	means "Lucky"; Felix Hoffman, inventor of Aspirin; groundbreaking animation	(16 votes)
Fern	f	From English word ult. from Sanskrit "feather"; peaked 0.2% in 1916	(16 votes)
Flora	f		(17 votes)
Gideon	m	Hebrew "feller, hewer"; more popular now than ever	(16 votes)
Gilbert	m		(16 votes)
Greta	f	D1	(15 votes)
Grey	m & f		(11 votes)
Hugo	m		(16 votes)
Hypatia	f	Greek "highest, supreme"; never ranked	(14 votes)
Iris	f	means "rainbow"; flower; color of eyes; goddess of the rainbow; last peaked at 0.08% in 1929.	(22 votes)
Isaac	m	Hebrew "he will laugh"; Isaac Newton; most popular now	(13 votes)
Jasper	m	Chaldean "treasurer", Hebrew "to polish"; old birthstone for March; nn Jazzy; also a name for wasps, from Old French guespe, ultimately from PIE webh, to weave or move fast*	(15 votes)
Jessamine	f	Persian "Jasmine", nn Jem, never ranked	(17 votes)
Jethro	m		(12 votes)
Joy	f	From English word, ult. from Latin; Peaked 0.2% in 1974	(15 votes)
Juniper	f & m	From English word, ult. from Latin "ever youthful"; most popular now	(16 votes)
Kai 3	m & f	89/11; Latin "rejoice", Hawaiian "sea", Japanese "forerunner", Chinese "triumphant", Navajo "willow" (unisex); short for Nicholas or Katherine; most popular now	(17 votes)
Lance	m		(12 votes)
Laurence 1	m	D01	(15 votes)
Leo	m	Latin "lion"; constellation; peaked 0.5% in 1903, rising again	(16 votes)
Liana	f		(15 votes)
Linnéa	f		(14 votes)
Maia 2	f	C05; means "grow"; goddess of spring; star in Pleiades	(16 votes)
Margaret	f	Greek "Pearl"; variant of family name; Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood; Margaret Haley, teacher union leader; nn Greta; peaked at 2.3% in 1916	(17 votes)
May	f	Latin "great", goddess of spring; family name; peaked >0.5% before 1880	(17 votes)
Melissa	f	Greek "honeybee"; name of herb lemon balm; nn Meli & Liz; peaked at 2% in 1979	(16 votes)
Mira 2	f	Slavic "peace", Sanskrit "ocean", Spanish "look" or "myrrh", Catalan "notable", Albanian "good", Japanese "mirror"; Miriam Makeba, civil rights; star in Cetus; most popular now	(14 votes)
Mirabel	f	means "wonderful", older spelling; alt spelling Mirabelle	(16 votes)
Mirabelle	f	means "wonderful"; variety of plum	(15 votes)
Morgan 1	m & f	10/90; Welsh "sea circle"; peaked 0.6% for girls and 0.06% for boys in 1995	(15 votes)
Nicholas	m	Greek "victory of the people"; Nicholas Copernicus, astronomer; Nicholas Culpeper, herbalist; nn Nicky & Cole; peaked at 1.4% in 1995, low #203	(19 votes)
Ocean	m & f	55/45; 70% of the earth's surface; Ocean Augustus, Ocean Meriwether, Ocean Socrates	(14 votes)
Opal	f	rainbow/firey gemstone; Opal Seraphine	(16 votes)
Penelope	f	Greek "thread, weft"+"face, eye"; most popular now	(15 votes)
Peter	m	Greek "stone", peaked at 0.5% in 1957.	(15 votes)
Ravenna	f		(14 votes)
River	m & f	63/37	(14 votes)
Robert	m	Germanic "bright fame"; nn Robin; Robert Bunsen, inventor of chemical spectroscopy; Robert Hooke, microbiology and gravity; peaked at 5.7% in 1937, low #63 2015	(15 votes)
Robin	m & f	10/90; Germanic "bright fame"; peaked 0.8% in 1961 for girls, now rising for boys	(14 votes)
Ruby	f	Latin "red"; family name; Ruby Beach on Olympic peninsula; Ruby Bradley, nurse; peaked 0.8% in 1912	(14 votes)
Sage	m & f	32/68; the plant ultimately derives from "safe, whole" and the wise meaning ultimately derives from "good taste, nectar"; most popular now	(14 votes)
Silas	m	Latin "forest"; most popular now	(14 votes)
Sky	m & f	00/100	(13 votes)
Solomon	m	Hebrew "peace"; nn Sol; Solomon the Wise King; peaked 0.05% in 1911, rising now	(16 votes)
Stella 1	f	Latin "star"; Stellaria is chickweed; peaked 0.5% in 1889, rising now	(16 votes)
Sterling	m		(15 votes)
Susannah	f	Hebrew "lily" from Egyptian "lotus"; nn's Suzie & Sunshine; Susan B. Anthony, suffragette; Susanna peaked 0.03% in 1886	(17 votes)
Sylvester	m		(11 votes)
Sylvia	f	Latin "forest", nn Sylvie; peaked 0.4% in 1937	(15 votes)
Thalia	f	Greek "to blossom"; peaked 0.04% in 1993	(13 votes)
Timothy	m	Greek "honoring God"; Peaked 1.6% in 1967	(16 votes)
Tycho	m	nn Tyke; Tycho Brahe, astronomer	(15 votes)
Valerian	m	means "strength"; name of medicinal herb	(15 votes)
Vera 1	f	Latin "true", Russian "faith", Albanian "summer"; peak 0.3% in 1900's	(17 votes)
Verity	f	English "truth"; nn Vera; ranked in UK but never in US	(19 votes)
Xanthe	f		(15 votes)
Zephyr	m & f	76/24; means "wind"*	(15 votes)
Zipporah	f		(14 votes)