Meadow
Meadow is a girl name of English origin, meaning A field of wildflowers.
What Meadow means
A field of wildflowers.
Meadow sits at 6 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Meadow comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Meadow is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Meadow?
Meadow sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Meadow
Meadow spans the natural world and flowers and growing things, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Names like Meadow
These share Meadow's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Marigold — The golden marigold flower.
- May — The hawthorn blossom; the fifth month.
- Bryony — To sprout; a climbing vine.
- Hadley — Field of heather.
- Heather — The flowering heath shrub.
- Petunia — The trumpet-shaped flower.
- Poppy — The bright red poppy flower.
- Primrose — First rose; first flower of spring.
- Wisteria — The cascading purple vine.
- Briar — A wild, thorny rose bush.
More English names
- Maybelle — Lovable and dear.
- Mercy — Compassion and forgiveness.
- May — The hawthorn blossom; the fifth month.
- Mortimer — Still water; dead sea.
- Maxwell — From the great stream.
- Moss — Of the woodland; saviour.
- Mason — Worker in stone.
- Nash — By the ash tree.
- Marlowe — From the hill by the lake.
- Nell — Bright, shining one.