Names That Mean Meadow

Gently pleasant English family name long associated with 60-Minuteman Morley Safer.

A softer take on Hunter. Huntley is evenly distributed between girls and boys, coming in at 47% female and 53% male at last count.

Kimberley is a town in South Africa associated with diamonds and with wealth and luxury in general. It was name for Lord Kimberley, whose surname derived from an English place name. Used for boys in the early twentieth century, it re-emerged as a girls' name in the 1940s, usually spelled Kimberly.

A rowdy name nobody ever heard of, till Nick Nolte gave it to his son.

Fresh choice in the vein of Carly and Harley.

An English surname originally denoting someone living near a farmstead in the forest. Makes an attractive and unusual addition to the -ley name family.

The cake company pretty much knocked this otherwise-pretty compilation name out of consideration for most parents.

Lauralee might be an Anglicization of Lorelei or a compound of Laura and Lee, which makes it a botanical choice.

English surname that's very rarely found as a first name. The Colorado city was named after Horace Greeley, the nineteenth-century congressman and founder of the New-York Tribune.

Brenley: a compound of trendy syllables or Brinley variation? It's totally up to you.

An English surname originally denoting someone living near a farmstead in the forest. Makes a sweet and unusual addition to the -ley name family.

Alternative spelling of Wesley, more commonly given to girls.

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.

Let's hope he's "burly".

An English surname used mononymously by the American singer-songwriter and record producer Breland (born Daniel Gerard Breland), who could certainly boost his cool name into the limelight.

Variation of Cluny best only if you're a major George fan. And even then, better go with George, Georgia, or Georgiana.

This French surname — stemming from Dupré, meaning "from the meadow" — was given to 20 baby boys as first name in 2022.

Yeardley (born Martha) Smith is the unusual name of the voice of Lisa Simpson; not advised unless your surname is Smith or Jones.

Often seen as a part of Arabic place names, such as Rawda Island in Cairo and Al-Rawda Square in Damascus.

Variation of Hartley.