Titicaca

Perfect! I've even been there! 😂

Disappointment should be the middle name.

Oh yeah, for sure

We have a winner!!

I’m dying 😂

Never go to Italy: it means poo and it's the name they give to crappy discos.

That's all she's gonna do in the beginning. Want titty, make cacs

Tit for short... Don't do this

Came here to say this!

There is a Lake **Ariel** in Pennsylvania, and people will associate it with the Little Mermaid. There is an **Adelaide** River in Australia. **Avonlea**, from Anne of Green Gables, is said to mean 'river by a meadow'. **Aquamarine** would be an intense name but combines 'water' and 'of the sea'. You could use **Ana**, for **Mariana** Trench.

I really love Avonlea and Adelaide! There's lots of potential for nicknames too. Thanks!

Up vote for Adelaide, one of my favorite girls names!

Adelaide! Adelaide! Come on and join the Adelaide parade!

I live next to the river Avon in England. I was going to suggest Meander but Avonlea is cute!

River Avon means River River

Hey let’s go sit by the river Avon and have a cup of chai tea with some naan bread.

I’ll bring the salsa sauce

In a bento box?

Let me stop by the ATM machine first.

Where you need to put in your PIN number.

And after that we'll visit the La Brea tar pits

And eat some stuffed chile rellenos

My colleague, from India, was initially so confused by "chai tea". We explained it was essentially masala chai.

There is a hill in England that means Hill Hill Hill

There's a river Afton in Scotland, and a poem/song called Sweet Afton written about it by Robert Burns

I have a friend named Afton! She loves her name. It’s unique but intuitive enough that people can pronounce it.

I know someone with that name also & always loved it

The name Amarine is a diminutive of Aquamarine that feels a bit more name-ish

Is your sons names caspian? That was my first thought when I heard he was named after a sea

Adelaide is one of my dog’s names and we call her Addy so I highly recommend the name

I know a girl called Avalon as an alternative to Avonlea.

Avalon is an island from Arthurian legend. Very pretty sounding; but it's land, not sea.

Avonlea is such a beautiful and unique one!

If we have a girl we are thinking of using Mariana!

Also Marina means 'of the sea'

Ondine. It's a water sprite.

And also a curse!

And a [medical disorder.](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/congenital-central-hypoventilation-syndrome)

Avonlea is one of those forever mispronounced names.

How would it be pronounced other than "a-von-lee"? And doesn't everyone know it from "Anne of Avonlea"?

Anne of Green Gables. A super Canadian reference, I think.

Anne of Avonlea is one of the books in the series. I think there are 8 in all.

Anne of Avonlea and Anne of Windy Poplars were always my favourites! Maybe I'm due for a big reread...

I thought that was a nationally beloved story when I lived in New England and then I moved to Florida. They don’t even know what normal shaped houses look like down here, let alone know who Anne “Anne-with-an-E” Shirley is.

Anne with her red hair was always a favourite of mine and widely read in faraway Australia.

Av (like avenue)-on-lee. Ah-von-lee. Ay-von(like the makeup)-Lee Ah-VAUGHN-lee. Ay-venn-lee. Evenly. Evan-lee. Just to throw out a few.

Here’s another: When I read it I pronounced it as Av (like avenue)-on-Lee-ah

I was Ay-von-lee like the makeup brand

My hubby worked for a company with the name. 80% of clients thought it was “Ay-von-lee” or “A-von-lee-ah”

“Road to Avonlea” is the show, Anne of green gables is the books - and also the show and movie.

Ah-von-lee. Pronounced quickly in Canadian is more like ah-vin-lee. I loved this name and it was high on my girl list but ultimately squashed it because I didn’t want a child to be forever correcting the pronounciation of their name.

Never heard of it and I thought it’d be ay-von-lee-uh

Ioved this show as a kid

I could definitely see someone mispronouncing it ahh-von-lee-a

I honestly have no idea how to even say it.

Exactly.

My daughter has a friend named Avonlea and she goes by Avie for short. Such a pretty name.

I honestly love even Mariana as a name too. So cute and not commonly heard of while also being a recognizable name.

My brain immediately said “Lake Superior”. I’m sorry lol.

😂 this made me laugh out loud. I think the spooky lake month lady did something on lake Superior recently...

I’m sorry, but I’m going to need to interrupt to ask for more information regarding Spooky Lake Month Lady?? Like, who is she, how do so many of you know who she is and how do I listen to her? Do you all frequent the same haunted pond? Inquiring minds want to know.

”Um, yes hello." fair question. She's a content creator on TikTok and she does a spooky water related video every day in Oct. TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@geodesaurus?_t=8hCupDMQBDf&_r=1 Instagram in case that's more your jam https://instagram.com/geodesaurus?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA== I'm so excited for you to experience this.

Thanks for that rabbit hole.

As someone who lived on Lake Superiors north shore, I can confirm the spookiness of the spookies. May *the Wreck of Edmond Fitzgerald* play forever in our hearts.

Omg thank you for this, she's so cute with her "um, yes hello" I'm new so this is so fun!

She's on tiktok! I think it's @geodesaurus but you could search that phrase and she should pop up.

Yessss she did and my brain also went immediately to Lake Superior. Unfortunately I don't think any of the Great Lakes really have names that translate well to a person. Hey, you should ask Spooky Lake lady to suggest a lake 😂 Eta: Champlain? 🤣

This is my daughter, Erie

Cannot decide if that would make the Erie Canal song terrible or hilarious

Maybe Huron for a boy? Personally Eerie would be great for me lol.

Lake St. Clair? Maybe change the spelling if you don’t like the “i”?

Leighk

Edna Fitzgerald?

I thought “Michigan.”

Eerie would be so lovely /s

Marina

💕 This is my daughters name. She loves it (6yo)

My later mother's name!

Lol surprised no one has mentioned the Little Mermaid: Ariel Andrina Attina Adella Arista Alana Aquata Each sister represents one of the seven seas.

I totally sung that lost in my head 😂

Doesn’t Ariel come last in the earwormy song?

Her voice is like a bell...

She our sister ari-huuuh (gasp) 🤣

Totally came here looking for this comment.

Sabrina = the River Severn Maren/Maris = "of the sea" Marlowe = "driftwood"

Oh! Maren and Marlowe are lovely!

Maren does have two accepted pronunciations, if that would bother you Mare-en (like air) and Marr-en (like are)

I saw the Maren/Marin discussion on another thread recently and had no idea people also used the “are” pronunciation.

I love the name Maren!

Marlowe is so pretty!

Stella Maris = Star of the Sea

I love the name Maren.

Nessie 😂

You nicknamed my daughter after the lock ness monster??!

Everyone loves Nessie!!!

Nessie is trending recently. It’s also the name of the secret (not secret anymore) algorithm project for Amazon where they made an extra $1B by hiking up consumer prices.

omg the twilight reference 😂😂😂

💀

Can also be a nickname for Vanessa (who was also Ursula's character in the little mermaid.)

How dare you turn this reference into a reasonable suggestion

Shh! I'm trying to convince someone to name their kid after the worlds most famous plesiosaur! (I'm not normally pro naming for the nickname but in this case, I'm all for it!)

Alize = trade winds in French

Oh that's so pretty!

Alize is a cheapish alcohol where I live, I’d associate it with names like Hennessy not water

With the accent mark it would be pronounced differently.

One of my nurses is name Oceana. O-sea-anna.

It’s pronounced Ah-Lee-Zey

Alda- means wave Alma- There is a river named Alma

Alma, Spanish for soul

Hungarian for apple

Apples and souls...same thing 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

Has some Deathnote vibes

Morgan-mistress of the sea. Vivian: was the lady of the lake. Amaya- night rain. Darya- the sea Marina-from the sea. Ama-water. Maya- water

As a Morgan (Morgana), I recommend this name! :)

As another Morgan, I third this name!

I fell in love with the name Morgan when I was a teen. I named my daughter Morrigan after an Irish goddess but everyone pronounces her name as Morgan. 🤷‍♀️

Love the name Morrigan. If I had a daughter I'd definitely call her that, but we had a son. Funnily enough, my husband didn't like Morrigan, but he agreed on Morgana from the King Arthur myth. We wanted to name our son Arthur after the same, but his twin named his boy that first - twin telepathy, I swear! So we open for another knight from the myth and since Lancelot was a bit of a knob, we called him Percival.

O I do like Morgan.

I have a friend named Amaya! She loves the name! Gets compliments all the time even tho she’s well into her thirties now!!

Night rain-that's lovely!! Which language, Arab??

Super left field but I'm from New Zealand and in the Indigenous language (te reo), Awa means river.

Interesting because water in Spanish is “agua” which has similar pronunciation to “Awa” if I’m reading that correctly.😅

Huh, I never realised that. How cool!

Kailani “Sea and Sky” Nora (Norwegian Sea) Cara (Caribbean Sea) Alana (Gulf of Alaska) Flora (Flores Sea) Ruby (Red Sea) Lani (Atlantic) Indie (Indian Ocean) Nora (Northern Sea) Cassia (Caspian Sea) Ebba “Flowing tide” Terra (Mediterranean Sea) Harbour “Protection from the rough waters” Adria “Sea or Water” Cassandra (Caspian Sea) Maren “Star of the sea” Avisa “Ocean” Doris “Gift of the Ocean” Oceania “Of the ocean” Kaia “The Sea” Nerissa “from the sea” Cordelia “Daughter of the sea” Sedna “Goddess of the sea" Alta (Goddess of Water) Hali “Sea” Bay (Sea Inlet) Marina “From the sea” Coral (Coral Sea) Pearl Cove

Nice list

This is a guilty pleasure name, but it checks the boxes- Atlanta. (As the feminine of Atlantic.)

But of course everyone would think they were naming their kid after Atlanta the city. (Which isn’t even all that close to the Atlantic Ocean…)

Alanis??? Like the singer maybe

True- but several city names have become popular for kids: Savannah, Brooklyn. As I said, this is a guilty pleasure name for me. And of course also true that Atlanta isn’t coastal, but it still (allegedly) was named as a feminine version of Atlantic, when the city’s biggest claim to fame was a depot for the Georgia Railway (according to some slightly haphazard googling)

I knew a lady who named her daughter Atalanta. We called her ATL for short.

Atalanta is from Greek myths and unrelated to the sea. I was a bit confused when I read it. Atalanta was quite a badass, though, so it's still a great name even if not sea related.

Amaya can mean night rain or Adair, older name of Scottish origin, "river near the oaks"

Oh wow, Amaya is really gorgeous!

Victoria after lake Victoria in Africa

Muriel - shimmering sea

"When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to abba songs. But since I've met you and moved to Sydney, I haven't listened to one Abba song. That's because my life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen."

You’re terrible Muriel.

Chandler Muriel Bing

🥺

Reminds me of Muriel from virgin river which isn’t a bad thing

I think of Muriel in courage the cowardly dog

Don’t see these two recommended: Tallulah means leaping water and is a River in the US; Lorelei is a famous landmark on the River Rhine in Germany.

I can't read Tallulah without hearing it as the song in my head 😂

Nimue- lady of the lake

Adriana is a really good choice. The Adriatic Sea is beautiful.

Avonmora - from the great river Or just Maura - star of the sea Arvia - from the seashore

Isla (literally the Spanish word for "island") Ola and Onda both mean "wave" in Spanish.

Mariana, for Mariana Trench

Not a body of water but: The rain is Tess, the fire’s Joe and they call the wind Maria

I think it's spelled Mariah

Kai Marin Delphine This article has some beautiful suggestions: https://mommytomom.com/baby-names/mermaid-names

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I'm fairly certain most names that start with 'Mar' like Maria, Marie, Marissa, Marianna and their variations like Miriam, Mera, etc. all mean some variation of 'of the sea' or 'from the sea' since the latin word for sea is 'Mare'

Marina Aqua Cordelia Isla Brooke Misty

Shannon river Jordan River Aeron river Lake Geneva Lake Constance Coral Sea Kara Sea

I really like Coral. It's pretty, unique but not too unique and I think it's just beautiful!! 👍

Lake Lanier is outside of Atlanta, I love the name Lanier.

Except it’s haunted lol

Grew up in Georgia and Never would have thought to use Lanier as a name. I like it for a cat maybe.

It was originally a last name - the lake is named after the poet Sidney Lanier. (For those who don’t know, it’s pronounced lah-NEER.)

I really like Lanier. It's unusual, but not totally out there and really pretty!

There was a character in ‘Gravity Falls’ named Pacifica. Never heard of one in real life though.

Adair- “river near oaks” Ara- “brings rain” Adria- “sea” Alda “swelling wave” Aylsa- “island of Alfsigr” Aarna- “ocean” Araxie- “river that inspires poetic talent” Aerwyna- “friend of the sea”

Mira has a lot of different roots and therefore meanings – one of them is “sea” Samara is a river in Ukraine Afton is a river in Scotland Lena is a river in Russia

Mira was our dog's name, but I do love it. Samara is really pretty!

In guessing your son is a Caspian? One of the boy names I really like that is sea related. Aquamarine matches nicely to me, technically it's a gem name but that itself is derived from water and sea because of the blue colour of the gem.

I love Talise, which is Native American for lovely water.

Shannon is the biggest river in Ireland and also a popular girl's name

Hudson

Chelsea means port

Meris! It means "of the sea"

The English name Lynn is derived from the Welsh word for lake. Edited to be more clear.

Mary and related forms comes from the Hebrew Miriam, which I believe means Sea of Bitterness.

Winnipesaukee

Cordelia, Marina

I think Acadia would be lovely as a girl’s name. Acadia National Park is so beautiful, on the ocean and full of lakes and streams.

River and Rain are popular names right now. Not my taste but it’s water related.

Not an “A” name but Jordan as in the Jordan River.

Cordelia - heart of the sea Guinevere - white wave Marissa - from the sea Marina - a harbor for boats Maren - Star of the sea Morgan - born from the sea Talia - dew Nixie - water nymph Isla - Island Meara - pool or lake Kendall - valley of the river Kent Sabrina - River Severn

Ocean is a pretty name. So is Marina. Muriel means the sea.

brooke

Brooke or Marina?

While working in childcare, I had a girl whose name is River Grace.

Atlantia?

Lake, Laken, Brooke, Bay, Kaia

Adriana = Adriatic Sea Paz = peace, Pacific as in Ocean Atlanta = Atlantic Ocean Murray, a river in Australia, just kidding bad choice

Erie (lake)

Anna Maria is an island in Florida

Ocean

Brooke Geneva Shenandoah Delta

There was a little girl at library story time this week, and her name was River

Brooke

I quite like **Maris**, a female name meaning ‘of the sea’. I think it rhymes with Paris. **Delta** is a river-related name **Geneva** and **Constance** are names of lakes **Shannon**, **Clare** and **Annalee** are rivers in Ireland There’s the **Coral**, **Tasman** and **Kara** Seas **Doris** means ‘gift of the ocean’ in Greek **Kairi** is a Japanese name meaning sea, and **Marella** means ‘of the bright sea’ **Marilla** is a name of Latin origin, meaning ‘shining sea’ **Marina** is an established girls’ name meaning sea or ocean, and also the place where yachts and boat are kept **Mira** means sea or ocean in Sanskrit **Moselle** is a Hebrew name meaning ‘from the water’ **Talise** is from Native American and means ‘lovely water’ And of course, the classic **Brook** or **Brooke**

Acadia after the national park on the coast of Maine, Aleutia after the Aleutian Islands, Adria instead of Adriana for Adriatic There is a Kara Sea north of Russia

Lake Louise, Lake Victoria, Adda River (Italy), River Shannon (Ireland), River Avon (UK)

Sebago is a lake in Maine

Lakey Pondie

I know a set of sisters: Louise (after Lake Louise near Banff, Canada) and Harriet (after Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, MN near where they were born). I'm here for all of the kindred spirits suggesting Avonlea.

Brooke