By Pamela Redmond · Updated September 2026
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Latin nature name
"dark cloud"
Nimbus is a new nature name that works for either gender and manages to be both familiar and unique. An evocative and daring nature name for the future.
Basque
"star"
A bright and sparky Basque name with a lovely celestial meaning.
Irish
"little star"
Properly written with accents: Réaltín. This increasingly popular Irish name is derived from réalta , meaning "star". Réiltín is a variant spelling.
Variant of Realtin
Yoruba
"mother returned"
West African name best known as that of Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams who was tragically murdered in 2003.
Variation of Lauren or Laura, Latin
"from Laurentum or bay laurel"
Lauran may not be a spelling used much currently, but it was given to baby girls fairly frequently in Lauren's heyday, back in the 1980s and 1990s. The Lauran spelling relates the name more directly…
Boris as a feminine name represents an extremely unusual gender application, as Boris is traditionally and overwhelmingly used as a masculine name across cultures. Of Slavic origin, Boris derives…
English occupational name
"writer"
So many occupations have been adopted as names that nothing seems strange any more. Author is a truly unique choice, appearing on neither side of the extended popularity list since the 90s. More…
French surname
"noble strength"
A fresh take on the fashionable Audrey and Aubrey, or another novel surname name which seems fitting for either sex.
Germanic
"awe-inspiring"
Super-sweet name that was the title of a Broadway play -- but best known as a type of apple. Could also make a cute short form for names like Philippa or Penelope.
German
"people of the dagger"
An unusual word name that nevertheless feels right on trend, with that two-syllable, n-ending shape and sharp middle X. Associated with a 70s rock band, a number of places in the US and Europe, and a…
Japanese
"pine tree; close harbor"
"born in the summer"
A summertime baby name in Japan.
Japanese; Finnish
"born in the autumn; ancestor"
Aki is a simple international name from two wildly divergent cultures.
"blue child"
"sweetfish"
"one thousand grains of rice; one thousand paces"
"one thousand flowers; scattering flowers; beautiful wisdom"
"bee; eight"
"springtime clothes"
