Natalie/Natalia - popular names with a well-known--but not too well-known Christmas meaning
Noel - For a girl, pronounced Noelle and sometimes spelled that way; for a boy, pronounced NO-uhl
There are also Christmas cultural icons to consider:
Nicholas
Norman (Rockwell)
Irving (Berlin)
George (Bailey)
We all have things we love most about Christmas, and some of them have quite lovely names related to them:
Holly/Hollis (holly)
Celyn (holly)
Oren (pine)
Douglas (like the fir)
Nousha (sweet, like cookies)
Miela (sweet)
Edur (snow)
Eira/Eirwen (snow)
Nevada (snow)
You could acknowledge your real favorite thing about Christmas and choose a name that means 'gift':
Darina
Cassandra
Dorothea
Jesse
Matthew
Theodore
Or, you can just go for Mary or Joseph. Merry Christmas!
I really like the name Eirwen. Is that Gaelic?
ReplyDeleteIt turns out Eirwen is pronounced AYR-wen (like "air"). On one site its meaning is listed as "snow, fair, white, blessed, holy". I think it's really pretty.
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