Winter names tend to be elegant and a bit unexpected. Neve (snow in Italian) is climbing fast. Stella has been popular for a century. The night-and-star category is particularly rich: Estelle, Nox, Orion, Lyra. These names work in any season; the winter meaning is often a discovery rather than the point.
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dark-complexioned son
dark-skinned, Moorish
God laughed, God rejoices
king's meadow, king's clearing
raven-like, dark as a raven
young bird, baby bustard
without wax, pure
to rejoice, joyful
reed island, island near the clearing
the pole star, fixed, immovable
divine justice
dark warrior
voice of God
rejoice, be glad
pure (short for Catherine)
charcoal, dark
Moorish, dark-skinned
illuminated, clear
dark settlement (place name)
dark settlement, coal town
seeing clearly, sharp-sighted
the auspicious dark one
dark, black (dark blue)
fair, white (from Finn)
strip-shaped clearing in woodland
morning star, night visitor
reminiscent of paladin (heroic knight)
little dark one
star (folk etymology)
dark-skinned, Moorish
modern invented name, possibly dark one
priceless, praiseworthy
fair, white, bright
the Nubian, dark-skinned
bright, clear, famous
from Leicester
from Radley (red clearing)
bent grass clearing, meadow
one who removes sins, pure-hearted
white, silver
priceless, praiseworthy
son of Dubhagan (little dark one)
woodland clearing used for hunting
baby bustard (young bird)
pure, righteous (as a title of the Prophet)
priest's meadow, clearing
dark-haired
from the burnt clearing
little dark one
priceless one, beyond praise
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