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The name has increased in popularity as a given name for both boys and girls in the United States in recent years. It has ranked among the top 1,000 names given to newborn boys there since 2011 and for girls since 2013. It ranked among the top 200 names for girls in 2022 and among the top 500 names for boys in 2022.
Kimberly (also Kimberley [1] or Kimberlee) is a unisex given name of Old English origin. John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, a place in Norfolk, England, popularised the name by giving it to a town in South Africa and a region in Australia.
Cheryl, occasionally spelt Cheryll, is a female given name common in English-speaking countries.. There are several prevailing theories about its etymology. The most common is that it has Italo-Celtic roots and is an anglicised version of either the French name Cherie (from Latin cara, "beloved"; see also Carissa (name)) or the Welsh name Carys (a cognate of "Cara"), [1] modelled on names such ...
It is a common suffix to female names in Japan. The first syllable "Kyō" can be written several different ways, with different meanings. 恭, "respectful," 京, "of the city or of the capital," 今日, "of today," 杏, "apricot," 鏡, "mirror," 響, "echo", "influential" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
Appearances of the boys' name in popular culture include Ashley Wilkes in 1939's Gone with the Wind and Ash Williams (Ashley Williams) in the 1981 film The Evil Dead. Ashley in England and Wales was used predominately for boys, ranking at #33 in 1994 for boys and staying within the top 100–300 male names given each year.
Roscoe (also spelled Rosco, Roscow, [1] and Ruscoe [2]) is a Cornish name [3] originating from the Old Norse words for "doe wood" [4] or "roebuck copse". [5] It is also an Americanized spelling of the French name Racicot , [ 5 ] and possibly a corruption of Roscrowe.
Primrose is an English feminine given name given in reference to the flower. The common name for the flower comes from the Latin phrase prima rosa, or first rose. [1] [2] It is also an English or Scottish surname. As a given name, it was occasionally used as a transferred use of the surname for both boys and girls.
The name has been used for both boys and girls in the United States and currently ranks among the top 1,000 names for American girls. It ranked among the 1,000 most common names for boys born in the United States throughout the mid-1990s. [6] In the mid-1990s, Jade was among the top 25 most popular names for girls in England and Wales.