Updated November 2023
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Greek, Engilsh
"possessing goodness"
The double-A is often a hard sell for baby names in an English-speaking context, and many will find Dario, as in public intellectual Dario Fo, appealing enough with just one. But diehard Game of…
Literary name
Euron Greyjoy is a deeply menacing, even psychopathic villain late in HBO's Game of Thrones , played by talented Danish actor Pilou Asbaek. As a first name, Euron is just too close to, well, urine,…
Zulu
A popular name in South Africa, said to mean "to do good" or "to do great things".
American Day Name
Friday became famous as a name via the sidekick character in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, morphing into a generic term for an all-around professional assistant, as in "girl Friday." As a word for…
French color and botanical name
Garance is the vivid deep red color that comes from the madder flower and that has become a fashionable name for baby girls in France in recent years. While it's virtually unknown in the US and other…
Country name
"genuine"
Germany doesn't seem to have the same possibilities as a first name as other countries and continents do. It's unlikely to become another Asia or Africa, India or Ireland. But there was an early…
Modern invented name
Draymond Green, the defensive superstar for the Golden State Warriors basketball team, introduced his name to the lexicon. This of it as Raymond plus. Twelve baby boys were given this name in one…
English word name
Five is a number name introduced to the lexicon by famous crazy baby namers The Novogratz Family. Five is, yes, their fifth child, who happens to be a boy, but there's no reason Five -- and Seven and…
English
"lost one"
One of the less common names that came over on the Mayflower, albeit, one with modern potential.
Portuguese bird name
Candice Swanpoel and Hermann Nicoli gave this uncommon Portuguese name to their son in 2016. It's the Portuguese word for the red-fan parrot, putting it in the fashionable bird name category.
Yoruba
"joy"
This charming West African mini name fits in with the other similarly short names that are all the rage right now. Actress Ayo Edebiri is the star of TV's The Bear .
Irish surname
"descendant of the dark haired one"
An Irish surname — the Anglicized form of O’Duibhgeannáin — that would make a one-of-a-kind first name, unless you count the character in Wes Anderson's first film, Bottle Rocket . For fans of the…
Urdu
"tiger"
It's most commonly associated with the French elephant, but Babar ironically means "tiger."
Word Name
The name of the protagonist in Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son .
Unique name chosen by Peaches Geldolf for her son in 2012.
English surname and place-name
"meadow by a stream"
English surname most notably used by Ashley Hebert for her son in 2014.
One of the middle names of Dwayne Wade's son Zion.
Spanish, Portuguese
"dry"
Variation of Aridius.
Roman
Tatyana Ali used this as the middle name for her son Edward.