Names that end in y

  1. Corny
    • Origin:

      Short form of Cornelia, Latin
    • Meaning:

      "horn"
    • Description:

      Cornelia is the feminine form of the Ancient Roman Cornelius. Both names were popular in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but have dropped off the Top 1000. In the most recent year counted, there were about 40 baby girls named Cornelia and 80 boys named Cornelius. But we doubt many of those would be nicknamed Corny.
  2. Newbery
    • 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.
    • Rudey
      • Gramercy
        • Origin:

          Place name
        • Description:

          A pretty private park in Manhattan, doesn't quite make it as a baby name.
      • Gaby
        • Lesly
          • Origin:

            Variation of Leslie
          • Description:

            Overly-streamlined Leslie variation holding on at the bottom of the Top 1000.
        • Currency
          • Origin:

            English word name "system of money"
          • Meaning:

            "system of money"
          • Description:

            A new addition to the name pool in 2020, along with Kurrency.
        • Lowry
          • Origin:

            English and Scottish surname
          • Meaning:

            "from Laurentum"
          • Description:

            This artistic surname name derives from a diminutive of Laurence/Lawrence, and was famously borne by the English painter LS Lowry.
        • Daffy
          • Ryszardy
            • Zacharey
              • Kally
                • Cassady
                  • Ganny
                    • 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).
                    • Yevgeny
                      • Origin:

                        Russian variation of Eugene
                      • Description:

                        See EUGENE.
                    • Henny
                      • Smitty
                        • Dominy