Names That Mean Meadow or Garden

Half the surname-style names parents love are meadows in Old English: Hadley is the heather meadow, Everly the boar meadow, Wesley the western meadow, Stanley the stony one and Oakley the one with oaks. Carmela means garden in Hebrew, Carmen is song and garden in Spanish, and Meadow says it outright. Open, green and easy-going, these names carry a landscape with them, which is a lovely thing to give a child growing up in a city.

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