My Suggested Names (PART 1)

Ice

GIRLS

Alaska
❆ Aurora
- (Aurora Borealis , Latin term for Northern Lights)

Canada
❆ Glacia
- (“GLEY-shuh,” a futuristic sound that elicits imagery of glacial ice)

❆ Goldie
- (a shout-out to the Alaskan Gold Rush , this spunky, vintage nickname-name happens to be of the type that is currently in vogue in the UK)

❆ Icy
- (this chilly little gem of a name was listed among the top 1,000 girls’ names in the United States until 1907)

❆ Ivory
- (the material of walrus tusks)

❆ Mossie
- (moss is one of the sparse varieties of arctic flora, and this name too is a vintage –ie nickname-name– that would fit right in next to Millie and
Essie )

❆ Orca
- (a whale found in the Arctic
Ocean , also known as the killer whale…cool sound, but maybe you shouldn’t)

❆ Neva
- (“NAY-vuh,” a Spanish name meaning “snow”)

❆ Neve
- (“NEY-vey,” the Italian word for “snow”)

❆ Poppy
- (arctic poppies are among the few flowers found in the frozen region)

❆ Stella
– Maris (this Latin term refers to the North Star and is literally translated “sea-star;” does anyone else see a charming double-barrel name here?)

❆ Swan
- (Tundra Swans breed in the arctic and subarctic tundra)

❆ Taiga
- (“TAHY-guh” is a term for subarctic forests found just below the Arctic Circle)

❆ Tundra
- (an arctic treeless zone with permanently-frozen soil; also, a very cool sound)

❆ Ursa
- (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are dominant constellations in the extreme Northern sky)

BOYS

❆ Aquilo
- (“AK-wuh-loh” is the ancient Roman personification of the north wind)

❆ Bear
- (one of the few species that call the Arctic Circle home)

❆ Fox
- (one of the bears’ few neighbors)

❆ Heath
- (a name descriptive of much of the arctic and subarctic tundra)

❆ Hudson
- (as in Hudson Bay , which is in the subarctic region)

❆ Moss
- (if Ross can be accepted as a name, why not this arctic vegetation name?)

❆ North

❆ Orion
- (something about the Arctic Circle brings to mind the night sky and its constellations that are so vividly clear in the absence of light pollution)

❆ Spruce
- (spruce trees are found in the subarctic forests and offer a name that is similar to, but catchier than, Bruce )

❆ Wolf
- (wolves are among the hardy animals that thrive in the arctic region)

❆ Yukon
- (it worked for Yukon Cornelius in Rudolph , so why can’t it work for a real boy?)

UNISEX

❆ Bering
- (a sea in the arctic region that sounds like “baring”…making it, well, daring)

❆ Berry
- (one of the few types of edible vegetation to thrive in the frozen region)

❆ Borealis
- (the Northern Lights’ Latin surname)

❆ Boreas
- (“BAWR-ee-uhs” or “BOHR-ee-uhs” is the ancient Greek personification of the north wind)

❆ Brooks
- (arctic mountain range in Alaska)

❆ Eider
- (“AHY-der,” waterfowl found in the Arctic Circle)

❆ Evergreen
- (obviously no trees are found above the Arctic Circle, but evergreens are all over the subarctic region…and let’s face it, it’s what we all think of when we picture the North Pole)

❆ Glacier

❆ Grey
- (type of arctic wolf)

❆ Peary
- (Robert Peary, American explorer who led the first expedition to the geographic North Pole)

❆ Pine
- (subarctic tree)

❆ Klondike
- (a region and river in northwest Canada ; hmm…some heavy teasing potential, but the ice cream bar association sweetens the deal a bit, no?…No.)

❆ Kodiak
- (an Alaskan community and a type of Alaskan grizzly bear, not quite in the Arctic Circle but with an oh-so-cute name!)

❆ Lynx
- (these felines are creeping around the arctic tundra at this very moment…with a very cool name)

❆ Polaris
- (“poh-LAIR-is,” the North Star’s proper name)

❆ Ptarmigan
- (“TAHR-mi-guhn,” state bird of Alaska…if you can get past its similarity to pterodactyl, it actually has a really cute sound, a la Madigan or Finnegan )

❆ Seal
- (sleek, cute, and arctic…one-syllable names are all the rage for boys right now anyway)

❆ Silver
- (the color that comes to mind when most of us picture the arctic region)

❆ Snow

❆ Timber
- (Timber Wolves are a breed that are found in the arctic region)

❆ Winter

- A vote can do!

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