Anyone know any names that mean or relate to 'River'

[CurlyCasper]

Not PG yet, but this has been on my mind. For our own reasons, we'd quite like something that means or relates to river(s) but is not actually "River"

Any ideas (boys or girls)?

Failing that, other watery names....?

Don't willow trees grow next to rivers?

Or Lilly from lillies?

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Ocean

Thanks both. Very wary of plant/tree/flowers because of our surname.

fancy something with a river/water meaning, but perhaps not obviously so. celtic would be good too because of our scottish and irish roots.

Doing a bit of googling....

Azur

Rio?

What a lovely idea!

An Irish girl name associated with rivers is Clodagh ("clo-da") - it's from the name for the river Clody in Tipperary, which in turn was named after a female deity believed to live in the river...

Another option is to find out what river translates as in other languages in case you like the sound of any of them (eg Rio is river in Spanish).

Moiye- apparently it's a Native American Indian name for a river somewhere in the States

Be warned though, I only know one and he is regularly called 'Mo' which I don't like

oops cross post with belgo

I'm afraid IMO Ocean falls into the same category as actually calling the child River so pretty sure DH would veto it. thanks for suggestion tho

Rio - not going to happen thanks to the footballer

Love Clodagh, and i think the Irish in-laws would too it's going on the list. Clo is a nice nn

Moy is a food company I've worked with, so maybe not (damn those associations your brain makes!)

Phoenix?

A Scottish boy name is Douglas - from dubhglas meaning dark/black river.

Curly Clodagh is a lovely name (was my BF's name when I was growing up and we used to call her Clo). Agree about Rio

Like Douglas - didn't realise the meaning (went to school with enough Dougies!)

Will suggest it, though it is the name of one of dh's best friends and not sure if that's a good or bad thing...

Douglas is also a type of Fir tree

There's always the actual Irish and gaelic word for river - Abhainn - which has always reminded me of Owen a little in pronunciation. Would be tricky to have other people say/spell it though...

...especially as DH is dyslexic and likes simple names, caitni

I, however, believe every child deserves an awkward name as I had because it's character building!! would not go so far as a boy named sue though...

at character building! I think there's something in that (my own 9 letter, 3 syllable name never held me back as a kid ).

Yup, although I was glad when I married and I didn't have to spell out first and surnames all the time!

Shannon? as in river in Ireland.

Murray? A river in Oz and a Wiggle too

My friend's daughter is caller Tamar. I am famous for being very anti "bonkers" names, but I have to admit, I quite like Tamar.

Brook/Brooke?

Wade or Avon for a boy?

Innes (Scottish boys name) means island in a river or something like that.

Sabrina is connected with the River Severn