Names that end in y
- Corny
Origin:
Short form of Cornelia, LatinMeaning:
"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.
- Newbery
- Maylily
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"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 nameDescription:
A pretty private park in Manhattan, doesn't quite make it as a baby name.
- Gaby
- Lesly
Origin:
Variation of LeslieDescription:
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 surnameMeaning:
"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 QuetzalliMeaning:
"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 EugeneDescription:
See EUGENE.
- Henny
- Smitty
- Dominy