Help me find names with these meanings

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Registered: 04-20-2004
Help me find names with these meanings
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Wed, 04-06-2005 - 4:51am
I'm looking for names male and female that have meanings like these:
1. Unity/Equality
2. Harmony/Balance
3. Serenity/Peace/Calm
4. Insightful/Understanding/Clarity
5. Respectful/Honour/Reverance
6. Flowing/Becoming/Growing/Moving forwards (especially interested in this one, but i can only think of related ideas,like Gypsy or River.) - especially important!
7. Kindly Love/Compassion
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Registered: 11-04-2003
Wed, 04-06-2005 - 8:20am

I went to behindthename.com and found these few. You could go there yourself and type in each word you're looking for names that have that meaning, and just click on 'search for words in meaning'.

1. Unity/Equality - (m)Bashkim (f) Unity
2. Harmony/Balance - (f) Concordia, Harmonia or Harmony/(f) Atalanta
3. Serenity/Peace/Calm - (f) Serena, Serenity
4. Insightful/Understanding/Clarity -(f) Clarity. Or you could go with the meaning 'clear' and get: http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?terms=clear&nmd=m&gender=both&operator=or
5. Respectful/Honour/Reverance - (m)Erhard/(f) Honor, Honoria/
6. Flowing/Becoming/Growing/Moving forwards (especially interested in this one, but i can only think of related ideas,like Gypsy or River.) - especially important! (m) Alphaeus (al-FEE-us) is a biblical name (father of the second apostle James)
7. Kindly Love/Compassion - I got these for love: http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?terms=love&nmd=m&gender=both&operator=or
/(f) Dara

Not a lot of boy names with these gentle meanings but you can check yourself at http://www.behindthename.com or you could go to http://tools.oxygen.com/babynamer/default.cfm but doublecheck anything you find there at behindthename.com because oxygen's not the most reliable place for meanings.. they like to make up things there (I mean, they say MacKenzie is both a boy & girls' name meaning "fire born" when it's neither a boy or girl name (it's a surname)meaning "son of Kenneth").

I hope that helps some and good luck!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 04-06-2005 - 1:05pm
Off the top of my head I can tell you right now that the male name of Galen means Tranquil. I really like this name a lot but don't think it is one I would use.
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Registered: 05-27-2003
Wed, 04-06-2005 - 5:19pm

www.babynames.com has an option to put in a meaning and it'll give you names with those meanings. HTH!


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Registered: 11-03-2004
Thu, 04-07-2005 - 2:06am

Here are a few girl names:

Zoe (Life)
Zerlina (Beautiful dawn)
Vivian (Full of life)
Victoria (Victorious)
Tulliah (Peaceful, quiet)
Raina (mighty)
Nadia (hopeful)