Updated November 2023
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Japanese
"flower child"
Hanako has a delicate sound and quaint meaning -- but there's a catch. According to widespread urban legend in Japan, Hanako is the name of the ghost of a little girl who haunts school bathrooms, who…
"fragrant ocean child"
Popular choice for female anime characters.
Hebrew, Akan
"cloud; fourth-born child"
Little-known name from the Old Testament.
Swedish diminutive of Maria
"bitter; wished-for child"
Although the sound is pretty, "my" is too common of an English word for My to be usable as a baby name in Anglophone countries.
Maori, Hawaiian
"rock; beloved child"
Popular in Hawaii in the first decades of the 20th century, this name also means "rock" in Māori.
"next child"
Distinctive and intriguing relative of Rae.
African, Akan
"fifth born child"
Traditionally the name for the fifth-born child, however, we like it no matter where the child is in the birth order.
English
"fair-haired child"
Only if it's a family name, and even then, better in the middle.
Even if you're not planning on having five kids, Enu makes a cute name for a son or daughter.
Kazakh
"moon child"
Youthful Kazakh name derived from the Turkic word for moon, ay .
"beautiful night child"
Most common in Japan in the mid-20th century, but to Western ears it doesn't sound dated.
Scottish
For towheads with ties to Scotland -- in theory, anyway.
"resourceful child"
Motoko Kusanagi, perhaps the best known association to the name, is a character from the sci-fi anime and manga series The Ghost in the Shell . She's a strong, wise, and independent cyborg who…
"peach child"
Momoko is a Japanese name meaning "peach child." It's also the name of a character in the popular Sailor Moon manga series.
"Child of integrity"
Best known to the West through the story of Sadako and the thousand paper cranes , which tells the story of Sadako Sasaki, this name has become synonymous with peace. Sadako was two years old when…
Irish
"small brown-haired child"
This Irish saint's name makes an attractive alternative for Dylan or Donald.
"fortunate child"
What parent wouldn't love this meaning?
"child of joy"
Sachiko was one of the first Japanese names familiar to Americans when it was used in the 1950s by actress Shirley Maclaine for her daughter, called the adorable short form Sachi. While Sachiko does…
"child of peace"
Kazuko is a Japanese feminine name that combines the character kazu ("harmony") with ko ("child"), creating a name that in total symbolises a child of peace. In Japan, names ending in ‘ko’ are rarely…
Hawaiian
"the flower or child"
A unisex Hawaiian name with a fitting meaning. It also happens to mean "cloud" in Maori.