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Names that end in y

  1. Pompey
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "five"
    • Description:

      Roman statesman and Caesar rival whose name, like other classical choices, was occasionally used for enslaved people. The Pompeo version could rise again.
  2. Kurrency
    • Origin:

      Variation of Currency, English word name
    • Meaning:

      "system of money"
    • Description:

      Both Currency and Kurrency appeared on the charts in 2020, following the bold trend of money-related names for babies.
  3. Lesly
    • Origin:

      Variation of Leslie
    • Description:

      Overly-streamlined Leslie variation holding on at the bottom of the Top 1000.
  4. Lesley
    • Waverley
      • Shermy
        • Gordy
          • Maylily
            • Origin:

              English
            • Meaning:

              "flower name"
            • Description:

              A beautiful smoosh of two stylish vintage girl names, May and Lily, but also the name of a pretty lily of the valley flower with small white blooms.
          • Joedy
            • Gaby
              • Pary
                • Jacky
                  • Vally
                    • Henny
                      • Wassily
                        • Ketzaly
                          • Origin:

                            Nahuatl, Native American, variation of Quetzalli
                          • Meaning:

                            "feather, precious thing"
                          • Description:

                            This phonetic spelling of Quetzalli — a rare and lovely Nahuatl name, which literally means "quetzal feather" after the quetzal bird — was given to around the same number of baby girls as the original in 2022 (a few dozen).
                        • Jatziry
                          • Origin:

                            Aztec
                          • Meaning:

                            "dewdrop"
                          • Description:

                            This name of Aztec origin has the lovely possible meaning of "dewdrop". Both the Jatziry and Jatziri spellings were given to a few dozen baby girls in 2022.
                        • Hy
                          • Origin:

                            Diminutive of Hyman, Hebrew
                          • Meaning:

                            "life"
                          • Description:

                            Hy was once a nickname for Hyman, a Jewish Anglicization of Chaim. Today it has gone extinct, for obvious reasons.
                        • Radly
                          • Cailey
                            • Origin:

                              Variation of Kaylee or Ceilidh
                            • Meaning:

                              "laurel, crown; companion, dance, music"
                            • Description:

                              One of many spellings of Kaylee, itself a name created from Kay and Lee or from Kelila; or, an anglicization of the Gaelic Ceilidh, meaning "companion" but generally referring to a social occasion of dancing, music, and story telling.