Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
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Begonia | | Female | Hebrew |
Belinda | beautiful snake | Female | Spanish |
Belladonna | beautiful woman | Unisex | |
Bellatrix | | Female | Hebrew |
Blaise | to lisp, stammer | Male | |
Blake | fair-haired, pallid | Male | English |
Blaze | Lisp: stutter. Blaise Pascal was a brilliant seventeenth century child prodigy: mathematician: scientist and philosopher who invented the calculating machine and hydraulic press before dying at age thirty-nine.
| Male | Latin |
Bluebell | | Female | Hebrew |
Bonnie | sweet and good | Female | Scottish |
Breezy | From Briseis the woman Achilles loved in Homer's Iliad.
| Female | |
Brianna | She ascends. Feminine of Brian.
| Female | Feminine |
Briar | a thorny patch | Female | English |
Bronwyn | White-bosomed. | Female | Welsh |
Buttercup | A bright yellow flowered plant. Also a term of endearment. | Female | |
Callisto | A satellite of the planet Jupiter. | Unisex | |
Calpurnia | | Unisex | Hebrew |
Calvina | Feminine form of Calvino bald
| Female | Latin |
Calypso | Greek for concealor. A type of music originating in the West Indies. Also a satellite of Saturn. | Male | Greek |
Camille | young ceremonial attendant | Female | |
Cassandra | prophet of doom | Female | Greek |
Cassie | Abbreviation of Cassandra. Unheeded prophetess. In Homer's The Iliad Cassandra's prediction of the fall of Troy was unheeded.
| Female | English |
Cayenne | Red ground spice from several varieties of capsicum | Female | Word |
Cedric | Battle leader
| Male | Celtic |
Celeste | heavenly | Female | Latin |
Chicory | | Unisex | Hebrew |