Forsythia
for-SITH-ee-ah
English/Botanical
Girl
Meaning-based name
- Meaning
- Named for the forsythia flower; Early bloom
- Origin
- English/Botanical
- Is it in the Bible?
- No — the name Forsythia does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Named for the forsythia flower; Early bloom", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Forsythia.
- First appears in
- Does not appear in the King James text
- Peak US usage
- No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
- Spiritual meaning
- Forsythia heralds the end of winter — flowers appearing, new things springing forth, the early bloom that declares God's season of singing has come.
- Verses on this meaning
- Song of Solomon 2:11-12
"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come."
- Isaiah 43:19
"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?"
- Song of Solomon 2:11-12