Updated October 2026
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Color and nature name
Even among the range of blue names on the current baby naming palette -- Blue itself, Azure, Cerulean, Teal, Aqua, Cyan, Indigo -- Cobalt remains the most unusual, not to mention the most masculine.
Nature name
The kind of nickname name you wouldn't want your own child to get stuck with.
Several animal names, from Fox to Wolf and even to Tiger, ccan work, but Cougar should stay in its cage. Even John Mellencamp has dropped it.
Spanish surname and nature name
This name has two distinctive associations: the Southwestern natural formation of a gully or stream, and the Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Bronson Arroyo.
Fox, okay. Buck, maybe. But Wolverine? You gotta be kidding us. On the plus side, your five-year-old will love you for giving him this superhero name. Your fifteen-year-old, not so much.
A name that's unusual in that changing the i to a y -- as in Byrd -- makes it more masculine.
This tree name could be one of those fresh, cool nature names for winter babies , though we can only imagine the kind of jokes that will fly in junior high.
Actress Jaime King gave her son Leo the middle name Thames, for the famous London river where she and her husband Kyle Newman were married. Thames is pronounced tehms, not necessarily common…
Mountain names such as Everest and Denali are being used more frequently, but Mountain itself was unknown until Hunger Games star Jena Malone used it as a middle name for her son Ode Mountain. And…
English nature name
Jolly Holly has always been among the favorite names for Christmas babies , evoking the symbolic shrub with dark green leaves and bright red berries. And Holly is the flower for the month of…
English, Dutch, Frisian
"marshland; peace"
In English, a fen is a wetland fed by surface and/or groundwater. In Dutch and Frisian, it's a traditional diminutive of names containing the element frid , meaning "peace". Either way, Fen makes a…
Latin, Nature name
An order of carnivorous insects, most notably dragonflies and damselflies.
A tough and rugged nature name.
"blackberry shrub"
Related to blackberry plants and more colloquially to any thorny shrub, Bramble has history as an English surname. Cozy in sound but spiky in feel, it could even get you nickname Bram.
An edible plant used in seed and spice form.