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New is a middle name name with meaning: Your baby, after all, is new to the world and you may hope will continue to approach life and experience as if everything is new and exciting.
English, diminutive of Nancy
Bobbsey Twins-era nickname name that could find new life via Nan, heroine of The Nanny Diaries. Nan was also the nickname of Annabel St George, the protagonist of Edith Wharton's novel "The…
English
"nail maker"
This is an occupational surname for one who made nails and has been used by one Berry to honor a Canadian World War I hero, Col. George Nasmith. Other related names with the same meaning nclude…
Combination of Nora and Belle
"beautiful light"
Blended name sometimes heard in the early decades of the twentieth century.
English, diminutive of Nathan or Nathaniel
Just the kind of old-fashioned nickname coming back into style.
"island-dweller"
Intriguing meaning, but stuffy sound.
English occupational name, carpenter or "nailer"
"nailer"
Unique name for the son of a woodworker.
"land or river bend shaped like a nose"
A family name that wouldn't appeal to many parents.
"new building"
Surname choice that's neither new nor bold. Newbold was the middle name of Edith Wharton.
"new borough, new settlement"
A name only a bully could love.
English variation of Neville
One of several surnames beginning with New that nevertheless sound anything but.
"new land"
Some will see this as spirited, others stuffy. The protagonist of the Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence was a popular and successful lawyer named Newbold Archer.
"newcomer"
Family name best used in the middle, especially since it was seen as the portly postman in Seinfeld.
English place-name
"new port"
For sailors or jazz lovers. Or smokers of menthol cigarettes.
"son of Nicol"
If you're looking for a Nicholas substitute or namesake, Nicholson would make a more distinctive path to the likable nickname Nick, fitting in with other newer patronymics like Anderson and Harrison.…
"Nicholas's village"
Charming Dickensian route to Nick.
"place of the northern people"
Would make a difficult choice even for those with ties to the Virginia city or British county.
"northern cliff"
Stick with North.
"northern farm"
Again, North is so much crisper.