Need help on origin

[kockxfight.livejournal.com]

We're naming our daughter, who is due in January, Harley Emmerson and I need to find some in depth meanings for these names. Any ideas where I could find them?

Thanks so much!
Sam

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[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

From www.behindthename.com...

Harley: From a surname which was from a place name meaning "hare clearing" from Old English hara "hare" and leah "clearing".

Emerson (your spelling brought up "variant of Emerson"): From a surname meaning "son of EMERY". The surname has been borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th-century American poet and author who wrote about transcendentalism.

[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

You beat me! ;)

[traezer.livejournal.com]

When I hear harley all I think about is motorcycles.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I just studied Emerson in school. So boring.

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

Second that.

[bluekoala.livejournal.com]

Me too. And also the girl obsessed with the Joker...heh

[hygher.livejournal.com]

!Harley Quinn!

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

You're not going to find much info, they're both surnames. Harley means 'hare clearing' and Emmerson/Emerson means 'son of Emery'. That's it.

[shortbutfast.livejournal.com]

Emmerson is a family name. http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/emmerson-family-crest.htm
Also: The name Emerson is a unisex name that is commonly believed to be of German origin. Supposedly meaning: Industrious ruler (I'm German & Swiss and grew up there but never heard of the name, btw - if this applies, it's probably ancient).

The name Harley is a unisex name that is commonly believed to be of English origin. The name Harley has the following meaning in English: From the hare's meadow. Ooooookay. LOL

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Everyone else already gave you the meanings, I was just going to say that I think you have a pretty name picked out =)
(Oh, babynamesworld (http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Harley.html) says 'Harley' can also mean 'heap of rocks'!)

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

I'm studying him right now. That is, I'm in the middle of revising his text, and I've got five pages to go. *sighs*

[lneef.livejournal.com]

That's what Kevin Smith named his daughter.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

um..
you like motorbikes and Teri hatcher?

It's really way to androgenous a name for me to like it, especially since it's actually veering towards the masculine side.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

seconded big time

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

I really like Harley!

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Wow that's lame. All I had to do was write a speech for him as though he were running for president in 2008 and trying to bring transcendentalism back to America.

[xopink-heartsox.livejournal.com]

I think thats a really cute name. I am due in Feb. with a little girl

[ugottafriend.livejournal.com]

Emerson is son of Emery and Harley would be some kind of meadow. If you're looking for the literal meaning, that is.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

That's a really nice name :)

[kockxfight.livejournal.com]

To each their own.