Place Names
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Arran
Scottish place name
"ridged island"
Arran Island (not to be confused with the Aran Islands in Ireland) is a large island in Scotland's Firth (or bay) of Clyde. An attractive name, long popular in Scotland, but may be confused with the…
Cambric
English from French place name
"fine linen"
Irian
Place name; modern literary name
An ethereal name with elements of Irene and Miriam, Irian is a woman/dragon character in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels, and a historic name for the island of New Guinea, now with colonial…
Calvary
English from Latin, place name
In the Bible, Calvary is the hill outside of Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. This religious significance, along with a pleasant sound, have led some parents to begin using it as a name for their…
Bohemia
Place name
A place name that became a heady way of life, and a rarely-if-ever-used baby name.
Larsa
Arabic, Sumerian place name, Swedish feminization of Lars
"crowned with laurel"
Larsa was the name of a city-state in Sumer, an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. It is occasionally used as a baby name in Arabic-speaking cultures, as well as in Sweden, where Larsa is a…
Mino
Spanish place name
Mino is traditionally a name for people born along Spain's Minho River or Rio Mino. It may be a surname or a first name.
French
Surname, place name, word name
A mash-up of popular name trends, French is all at once a place name, word name, and surname name. It's evocative of a favorite celebrity baby name fad of using nationalities as names as opposed to…
Jericha
Feminine variation of Jericho, Biblical place name
Jericho, a Biblical city, has popped in and out of the Top 1000 since 2013, never making it above the 900s. That means it's unlikely that Jericha, a feminization, will break into the mainstream…
Merrilee
English, word name or combination of Mary and Lee, or Scottish place-name
Merrilee has several different origins. It's an alternative spelling of the unusual word name Merrily, as well as a variant of the smoosh name Marilee (Mary + Lee). Merrilee, Merrilees or Mirrlees…
Auxerre
French, place name
A picturesque city in eastern France that would make an unusual and stylish addition to the list of place names off the map.
Akita
Japanese place name
"field of rice"
Also a dog breed
Lexington
English place name
Lexington is rising as a place name used just about evenly for the genders. For Americans, it's got a patriotic ring, given the importance of Lexington, Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War.…
Kittery
English place name
The name of a port town in Maine, named after the birthplace of one of its founders Alexander Shapleigh, of Kittery Court, Devon, England.
Arbel
Hebrew place name
A popular Israeli baby name inspired by Mount Arbel in the north, which overlooks the Sea of Galilee.
Iceland
Place name
"land of ice"
Iceland is a futuristic place name that works as well for babies as Ireland. We predict it's going to be one of the top baby names of 2050 , along with other girl names that end in land, such as…
Topeka
Place name from Kansa
"place of potatoes"
The name of the capital city of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County, which is thought to come from a Kansa word meaning "good place to grow potatoes".
Britain
Place name
Britain is an attractive place that is used nearly equally for boys and girls. But spelling it Britton makes it considerably more popular for both genders.
Nairobi
African place name
The capital of Kenya makes a melodic and worldly name.
Saima
Finnish place name
Saima derives from Saimaa, the name of Finland's largest lake. It was also the name of a 19th-century Finnish nationalist newspaper.