Names that end in y
- Daly
Description:
See DALEY.
- Kitty
Description:
Traditionally a feminine nickname for Katherine — the male usage of Kitty is entirely made up of cats.
- Daylily
Origin:
English flower nameMeaning:
"daylily"Description:
Pretty and unconventional floral option so called because their beautiful blooms generally last only a day.
- Gramercy
Origin:
Place nameDescription:
A pretty private park in Manhattan, doesn't quite make it as a baby name.
- Floy
Origin:
Diminutive of FlorenceMeaning:
"flourishing, prosperous"Description:
All but unheard of today, Floy was a popular Florence nickname used on its own in a century ago: it was Number 448 in 1914.
- Zippy
Origin:
Short form of ZipporahDescription:
Zippy is a cute nickname that livens up the Biblical Zipporah. Too cute? Your call.
- Blakeley
Origin:
English surnameMeaning:
"dark wood or clearing"Description:
Blakeley is one of the many -ley ending surnames that is being adopted as a first name, taking the 80s unisex darling Blake into the new millennium.
- Elaney
- Poesy
Origin:
Word nameMeaning:
"poetry"Description:
This old-fashioned word for poetry has some antiquated charm but doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
- Hillary
- Tey
- Branley
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"raven meadow"Description:
The suffix Bran is familiar as raven-related since Game of Thrones, and the -ley suffix has been popular since the 1990s heyday of Ashley.
- Blakesley
Origin:
English place-name and surnameMeaning:
"dark wolf's wood or clearing"Description:
Blakesley is the name of a village in England, also sometimes found as a surname along with Blakely and Blakeley, turned into a first name for their daughter by reality stars Trista and Ryan Sutter. Blakesley joins other -ley ending names -- Hadley, Finley -- as one of the most popular forms of unisex names with a girlish spin.
- Jermey
- Khy
Origin:
Variation of Kai, HawaiianMeaning:
"sea"Description:
Kylie Jenner has proven herself to be a baby name influencer after single-handedly launching her children's names — Stormi and Aire — far up the popularity charts. Can she do the same with Khy, the name of her new fashion brand?
- Cully
- Odey
- Rigby
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"ridge farm"Description:
Rigby is a rather stiff British surname, which might call to mind the Beatles "Eleanor Rigby" or, from the recent past, Cathy Rigby, the first American woman to win a medal in World Gymnastics competition. The problem with Rigby may be its similarity to the word "rigid."
- Tenacity
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"persistence, doggedness"
- Ryley