June Babyberry Names Shine Bright

June Babyberry Names Shine Bright

Nameberry’s June birth announcements are in, and they’re a dazzling bunch!

Four baby girls and seven boys joined the Nameberry community in June, and the names chosen by our members this month were particularly intriguing and imaginative – even by Berry standards!

Girls named Deliverance and Rosamund, boys named Sylvanus and Maccabee… Long and dramatic choices dominated, but brought down to earth by the seriously sweet and meaningful stories behind them.

Read more about these stunning choices, and about all of our beautiful June Babyberry names, below.

Girl Names

Deliverance Elanor, sister to Ransom Earl and Tobias Arnold

“We had her name chosen since before our first son was born. I found Deliverance years ago in a children’s story about the Puritans, and it was on one of my lists as a middle name when my husband said ‘Why not use it as a first?’ Psalm 32:7 was on my mind before she was born: ‘Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.’”

McKenna Leigh, sister to Hunter Jack

“I chose McKenna as a way to honor my father, Michael. We decided to just go for a matching initial and my dad really likes the name too. Leigh is a family name in both my husband’s family and mine.”

Rosamund Ursa, sister to Hermione Elowen, Evander Hawthorn and Peregrine Alasdair

“In thinking about these diverse meanings, I explored several stories. I thought of the sister I lost, whose birthday was our daughter’s due date, and the fact that their birth month’s flower is the rose. I thought about the Virgin Mary, who is associated with roses as an icon of someone blooming among thorns.”

Zinnia Marisol, sister to Phoebe Josefina

“It made the most sense when we first saw her, it’s bright and cheerful and summery and our sweet girl is just as pretty as her namesake. Her middle name is in honor of her grandmother, who means so much to us.”

Boy Names

Caspian Beau, twin of Jonah Layne and brother to Myla Rose, Perla Belle and Cleo Matilda

“At the time we were totally set on one of them being Oslo, however I just sort of went off it, so we had to have a rethink. I find boys names so hard for some reason but am so in love with our final choice.”

Jonah Layne, twin of Caspian Beau and brother to Myla Rose, Perla Belle and Cleo Matilda

Jude René, brother to Amelie June

“It was ultimately down to Jude or Felix and the decision wasn’t an easy one but Jude seems to be less common here and to me he looks like a little Jude. René is after my father. We were debating between that and a few other options but once he was out the significance of the name trumped all else.”

Leo Sylvanus, brother to Emerson, Wilder and Rowan

“He was born on the feast day of saint Sylvanus and it is a Latin name meaning ‘forest, woods’ (Forrest is my great grandfathers name we really wanted to incorporate) so really was an obvious choice for us when we discovered it.”

Maccabee Joel “Mac”, brother to Evander Mark, Gabriel Lee, Eliza Mae and Aviya Joy

“He is named after the Maccabees who are famously recorded in the books of Maccabees. Maccabee is an acronym in Hebrew for ‘Who is like You, oh Yehovah, among the gods?’ Exodus 15:11. It was their battlecry as they victoriously fought against Hellenism. His middle name means Yehovah is God.”

Odin River Fox

“We really struggled choosing a name for our third child, me and hubby went back and forth right up until the day before baby was born and we didn’t know the sex.”

Raphaël Quincy, brother to Thaddeus Gough

“We chose Raphaël for the arty vibes, the inspiration of Raphael Warnock, and the connection to pizza (that was important for our eldest son). I also liked that in Mozart’s opera Il Nozze di Figaro, the character of Figaro is revealed to have been born Raffaello. Raphaël also worked for us in a number of languages, which is important.”

Warmest congratulations to all the proud new parents!

If you’d like your child’s name to be featured in our next Babyberry blog post, tell us the name you chose and the story behind it over on our birth announcements forum. We love hearing from you!

About the Author

Emma Waterhouse

Emma Waterhouse

Emma Waterhouse joined the team in 2017, writing about everything from the top baby name trends 2023 to how not to choose the next big baby name. As Nameberry's head moderator, she also helps to keep our active forums community ticking.

Emma's articles on names and naming trends have been featured in publications including the Huffington Post, People, Today's Parent, Fatherly, and Good Housekeeping.

A linguist by background, Emma speaks several languages and lives in England's smallest county with her husband and four young children. You can reach her at emma@nameberry.com.