To sparkle or shine
Derived from the Greek word 'amarysso', meaning to sparkle. In classical poetry, it is the name of a beautiful shepherdess, and it is also the name of a genus of flowering bulbs known for their large, trumpet-shaped blooms.
Less common today
Amarilis isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #3,852 in 1990.
Cuban three-time Olympic medalist in judo
Pseudonym of an anonymous 16th-century Peruvian poet
A shepherdess in Virgil's Eclogues · Eclogues
US births per 5-year period, 1990–present (SSA data).
