It’s certainly no news to names enthusiasts that flowers and herbs can be a great source for inspired baby-naming. Familiar flower names such as Jasmine, Lily, and Rose are perennial favorites. Less familiar flower names such as Celandine and Tansy also make lovely choices. Such names inspired poet and artist, Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973) for her classic series of little books titled The Flower Fairies. Barker illustrated, with accompanying poems, the beloved flowers of her English countryside and gardens, personifying them as fanciful fairy-children. It is Cicely Mary Barker who has inspired me to bring my anagramming craft to Nameberry, to see what sort of “Flower Fairy Names” we might discover among some of our forum members here. You may find a name from among those below that appeals to your own naming aesthetic. These Flower Fairy names have been anagrammed from the scrambled letters of people’s actual names. Names of flowers, herbs, and trees — especially in foreign languages — serve as likely surnames complementing the flowery-sounding forenames. While the vast majority of Nameberry participants appear to be female, males are also welcome — although, I may give dudes the somewhat more flatteringly masculine title of “Elf”. ALISABETHE NELKE “Nelke” is the German name for the Pink. JILLY TRINKET BRAMBLE “Bramble” is another name for the Blackberry bush. MELISSIA DAWNE LILLA Lilla” is the Italian name for the Lilac. AURELIA SAHIRRA GELBE “Gelbe” is from “Gelbe Narzisse,” a German name for the Daffodil. LORINDA MAE ACHILLEA “Achillea” is the Latin botanical name for Yarrow. LULANA CHICORIA “Chicoria” is the Italian name for Chicory. ROALD HAWKE CRINLLYS (an elf!) “Crinllys” is a Welsh name for the Dog-Violet. For an added treat and postscript, I offer you the following list of Welsh flower names. Many are in actual use for Welsh girls, some are merely pretty-sounding Welsh names for flowers. Welsh has always struck me as an almost magical-sounding language — small wonder that fantasy novelist J.R.R. Tolkien used Welsh as a basis for the Elvish languages he created for his Lord of the Rings series. By the same token, Welsh flower names make likely-sounding fairy names. BLODYN (flower) BLODWEN (white flower) BRIALLEN (primrose) CEILYS (pink) CELYNNEN (holly) EIRLYS (snowdrop) EIRYS (iris) FFIONA (foxglove) GWENITH (wheat) GWENONWY (lily of the valley) LILI (lily) LILWEN (white lily) PANSI (pansy) PERLLYS (mignonette) RHEDYN (fern) RHOSLYN (rose valley) RHOSMARI (rosemary) RHOSYN (rose) SERENYN (scilla) SIASMIN (jasmine) TANSI (tansy)
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 03:44:08 +0000
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