Cute Baby Names

Updated Thu Sep 02 2021

We all love to oooh and awwww over cute baby names, but when is cuteness a prime criteria in choosing a name?

When naming a pet, sometimes. Or suggesting cute baby names you love to your best friend. But when naming your own baby? Cute may be a drawback, unless the cute name is a nickname for something more serious that can go on the job application.

And that’s certainly one way to reclaim the cute in baby names — choose a buttoned-up name like Eleanor with a cute nickname like Ellie or Nell. Another way is to see cute as an all-around good thing and embrace it by choosing a name that’s cute out of the gate.

Over in the lists section, we’ve got collections of cute baby names for girls and cute baby names for boys. For further inspiration, here’s a selection of cute baby names today:

Cute Baby Girl Names

Addie

Bea

Cayley

Coco

Daisy

Darcy

Ellie

Emme

Evie

Franny

Hadley

Hattie

Josie

Millie

Mimi

Minnie

Molly

Nell

Poppy

Romy

Sadie

Sally

Scout

Sukie

Tessie

Winnie

Zadie

Cute Baby Boy Names

Alfie

Archie

Arlo

Asa

Bear

Benno

Gus

Iggy

Kit

Leo

Luca

Mac

Mickey

Moe

Nate

Nico

Ollie

Oscar

Percy

Pip

Remy

Rollo

Sammy

Theo

Wally

Zeke

About the Author

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Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.

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Introducing the Nameberry App

Find your perfect baby name together with our new mobile app.

Swipe through thousands of names with your partner
Names you match on are saved to your shared list
Get personalized recommendations that learn based on your and your partner's preferences
Partner with friends and family to find names you all love
Backed by Nameberry's 20 years of data around name preferences.