Covey Name Ideas
As promised here is my list of Covey-inspired names.
I tried to follow the typical naming convention of the first part of the name being a traditional folk poem or ballad, but I did add some names that differed from the typical names, and still fit the covey vibes. Suggestions appreciated :)
I also posted a list of shades of colors in case some people needed it!
https://www.tumblr.com/starstrucktoby/795797713663000576/color-shades
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Aldingar (Sir Aldingar) Alice (Lady Alice) Allegra (Children's Hour) Allison (Allison Gross) Amarantha (Song to Amarantha) Amoret (The Faerie Queene) Andrew (Death of Young Andrew) Angelina (Farewell Angelina) Annabel (Annabel Lee) Annachie (Annachie Gordon) Annet (Lord Thomas and Fair Annet) Annie (For Annie or Gentle Annie) April (April Come She Will) Ariel (Ariel by Sylvia Plath) Arthur (King Arthur) Augustine (The Ladder of St. Augustine)
Barbra (Barbra Allen) Benjie (Young Benjie) Bess (The Highway Man) Bill (Railroad Bill) Billy (Billy Boy) Bonny/Bonnie (‘Bonny Barbra Allen’ or ‘The Bonnie Lass o’ Fyvie’) Bridget (The Banks of Newfoundland)
Carolina (Carolina in my Mind) Caroline (Sweet Caroline) Catherine (Catherine Howard’s Fate) Catskin (The Wandering Young Gentlewoman or Catskin) Cawline (Sir Cawline) Cecilia (Cecilia- Simon & Garfunkel) Celia (To Celia) Charlie (Mr Charlie) Christabel (Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Christopher (Christopher White) Clara (The Song of Maria Clara) Claribel (Claribel by Ralph Vaughn Williams) Clarinda (To the Van Morte Clarinda) Claude (Claude Allen) Clementine (Oh My Darling, Clementine) Clerk (‘Clerk Saunders’ or ‘Clerk Colvill’) Cole (Cole Younger) Corey (Darling Corey) Corinna (Corinna’s Gone A’Maying) Curtis (Ballad of Curtis Loew)
Daisy (Lady Diamond) Danny (Danny Boy) Davy (The Ballad of Davy Crockett) Delaware (Lord Delaware) Delia (Delia by Samuel Daniel) Delilah (Hey There Delilah) Delta (Delta Dawn) Donald (Ballad of Donald White) Donnie (Ballad of Donnie Gene)
Earl (‘Earl Brand’ or ‘The Earl of Westmoreland’) Edith (Children’s Hour) Edmund (The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald) Edward (Edward) Elanor (Queen Elanor’s Confession) Elise (The Famous Flower of Serving Men) Eliza (Eliza Jane) Ellen (Poor Ellen Smith) Emmeline (The Sparrows Nest-Wordsworth) Enoch (Enoch by Lord Tennyson) Erlinton (Erlinton) Estmere (King Estmere) Eulalie (Eulalie by Edgar Allen Poe) Evangeline (Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Frankie (Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest)
Gawain (The Marriage of Sir Gawain) Gil (Gil Brenton) Gloriana (The Faerie Queene) Godiva (Godiva by Alfred Tennyson) Grace (Amazing Grace)
Harry (Harry's Courtship) Hazel (Hazel- Bob Dylan) Henry (King Henry) Hollis (Ballad of Hollis Brown)
Ira (Ballad of Ira Hayes) Irene (Goodnight Irene) Isabel (‘Adventures of Isabel’ or ‘Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight’)
Jack (Jack Orion) Jackie (Jackie Boy) James (St James Infirmary Blues) Jane (‘For Jane’ by Charles Bukowski, or ‘Death of Queen Jane’) Janet (‘Janet Waking’, ‘Fair Janet’, Or ‘Tam Lin’) Jeannie (Annachie Gordon) Jellon (Jellon Grame) Jenny (‘The Ballad of Jenny Rae’ or ‘Ballad of Jenny Ledge’) Jim (Jim Bowie) Joan (The Clowns Courtship) Johanna (Visions of Johanna) John/Johnny (‘Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier’, ‘Young Johnny’, or ‘John Henry’) Johnnie (Johnnie Armstrong) Johnstone (Young Johnstone) Joshua (Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho) Jubilee (Jubilee) Judas (Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest) Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
Lamia (Lamia by John Keats) Lamkin (Lamkin) Lance (Poor Old Lance) Lenore (The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe) Lillian (Red Dirt Girl) Lillie (Jellon Grame) Lizie/Lizzie (Lizie Wan) Lorelei (Lorelei by Heinrich Heine) Louise (Visions of Johanna) Lovel (Lord Lovel) Lucy Gray (Lucy Gray by William Wordsworth) Lyonell (Sir Lyonell)
Mack (Spancil Hill) Maggie (Little Maggie) Maisry (Lady Maisry) Maple (Maple-Edgar Allen Poe) Margaret (‘Spring and Fall’, ‘Proud Lady Margaret’, or ‘Hind Etin’) Maria (The Song of Maria Clara) Marian (Robin Hood and Maid Marian) Mariana (Mariana by Alfred Tennyson) Marina (Marina by T.S Elliot) Marjorie (Young Benjie) Martha (The Bowes Tragedy) Mary (‘Miss Mary Mack’ or ‘Fields of Athenry’) Matty (Matty Groves) Maude (Maude Clare) Maurice (Child Maurice) Meg (Spancil Hill) Michael (‘Michael Finnigan’ or ‘Fields of Athenry’) Minnie (Ballad of Minnie Dean) Moll (The Ballad of Moll Mcgee) Molly (‘Molly Malone’ or ‘I Never Will Marry’)
Nancy (Nancy by William Cowper) Naomi (Naomi Wise) Nell (Spancil Hill) Nellie (Nellie Clark)
Oliver (Sweet Polly Oliver) Ophelia (Ophelia by Arthur Rimbaud) Orfeo (King Orfeo) Orion (Jack Orion) Owen/Owyne (‘The Lament for Owen Roe’ or ‘Kemp Owyne’) Owlet (Child Owlet)
Pat (Pat Works on the Railway) Patrick (Sir Patrick Spens) Peggy (Young Peggy) Persephone (Double Persephone by Margret Atwood) Phoebe (O Sister Phoebe) Polly (‘Pretty Polly’ or ‘Polly Vaughn’)
Randall (Lord Randall) Robyn/Robin (Robin Hood's Death, A Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood, there are lots of Robin Hood poems) Roger (The Bowes Tragedy) Rosaleen (My Dark Rosaleen) Rosalind (Rosalind by Lord Tennyson) Rosemary (Balled of Rosemary Lane) Rosie (Star of the County Down) Ruby (Ruby-Are You Mad at Your Man) Ruth (Ruth by Wordsworth, or The Beautiful Lady of Kent) Ryalas (The Jovial Hunter of Broomsgrove)
Sadie (Little Sadie) Sally (‘Aweigh, Santy Ano’ or ‘The Rich Irish Lady/Pretty Sally’) Sam (The cremation of Sam McGee) Saro (Pretty Saro) Shady (Shady Grove) Simon (‘Simple Simon’ or ‘Simon Lee’) Sovay (Sovay) Susan (Reverie of Poor Susan) Susanna (The Journals of Susanna Moodie) Suzanne (Suzanne-Leonard Cohen)
Tam (‘Tam Glen’, ‘Tam o' Shanter’ both by Robert Burns, or ‘Tam Lin’) Tamerlane (Tamerlane by Edgar Allen Poe) Thomas (Thomas the Rhymer) Tobias (Where are the Days of Tobias) Tom (Tom Dooley)
Una (The Faerie Queene)
Vincent (Vincent-Don McLean)
Waterlily (Water Lily by Ralph Stanley) William (‘Sweet William’s Ghost’ or ‘I Never Will Marry’) Willie (‘Willie’s Lady’, ‘Willies Lyke-Wake’, or ‘Erlinton’) Willow (Down in the Willow Garden)
Zuleika (Zuleika by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy)
