Midsummer Baby Names Dazzle and Delight
Our most recent Babyberry birth announcements are full of sweet and surprising choices perfect for the sunny summer season! Eleven baby girls and six baby boys joined the Nameberry family in June and July.
Girl names chosen by our members this summer include plenty of light, bright, liquid sounds. Think sweet and sunny names like Alba, Lila, Lucy and Luella.
At the other end of the spectrum is the long and lyrical Gwyniveth, a name invented by our Berry @ladyofthetower and packed full of personal significance. You can read the full story behind it here.
Recent Babyberry boy names include the seriously cool, sharp nature names Quill and Flint, joining more established fruit and flower girl names from Juniper to Clementine to Violet.
And we were especially excited to see an announcement for the magical Beowulf! With Wolf names now creeping toward the mainstream, this dramatic literary and legendary option still surprises.
Read on for all of the beautiful baby names announced by our members in June and July.
Girl Names
Alba Juliette Maria, sister to Thea Florence Maria
“We are all doing great in adjusting to being a family of four and are over the moon that she’s finally here!”
Eve Valentine
"Valentine was her great-grandfather's name. He was a WWII vet, inventor and engineer. This sweet moniker would have been used for a boy or girl and honors our family while adding a bit of love and whimsy to her name."
Evelyn Frances, sister to Quinn Louella
"Evelyn is my mum’s name and Frances is my partner’s great-grandmother’s name, so it was always going to be. We throw a lot of names into the hat, like Dorothy, Mavis or Clara, but Evelyn stood out."
Gwyniveth Liora, sister to Alphonse Eliott and Oswin Maxwell
"Gwyniveth’s name is a combination name I invented because of the depth of personal and biblical meaning I drew from it. It is an honor name many times over. Her name combines the Welsh Gwyn with Iveth, a French variation of Yvette. I pronounce Gwyniveth with all short vowel sounds."
Juniper Luella, sister to Cadence Blossom, Lawrence Remi and Harmony Winona
“Thank you for all the help on naming our sweet girl, our family is besotted.”
Lila Marianne, sister to Alice Leonora
“Marianne was the big honor name this time, honoring both of her grandmothers with middle names Marie and Anne, and also her great-grandmother who was Mary Ann (a happy coincidence!)”
Mabel Clementine Ada, sister to Olive Hermione Florence and Theodore Ezra Atticus
“A big thank you to everyone who commented on my posts during Mabel’s pregnancy with plenty of helpful advice. I’m so glad to have had the Nameberry community help name my three children.”
Phoebe Eloise
"We both really liked the meaning of the name (radiant) and it’s the perfect amount of popular for us, being quite familiar but not too common (yet). Her biblical namesake being the only deaconess named in Scripture is also incredibly meaningful to us."
Susanna Lucy, sister to Sebastian Hugo and Charlotte Bella
“It was very hard choosing a girl name but Susanna won out in the end because it simply felt like the one. Lottie suggested Lucy (the name of her favorite doll) as her sister’s middle name.”
Vivian Lois, sister to Theodore, Brianna and Cassandra
“We decided upon Vivian because we like more traditional names with cute nicknames, and we intend on calling her Vivi. Lois is after my husband’s late father, Louis.”
Zola Felicity Violet
“My husband and I decided to name her Violet Olivia Fleur because it sounded nice, but we changed our minds after seeing her for the first time.”
Boy Names
Augustine John, brother to Myles Raymond
"Grateful for this passionate naming community!"
Beowulf Quill MacCumhaill, brother to Isolde Mauricette Marie Jose, Poet Wildflower Hecate and Violet Gwendolen Nimuë Lark
“As lovers of literature and mythology, Beowulf was perfect. It is also a subtle honor name for my grandfather, who we lost last year; his middle name meant ‘noble wolf.’ The second middle was not on our radar at all until baby was born at a surprising 10 pounds 11 ounces. Remembering the story of legendary giant Fionn mac Cumhaill, I suggested it to my partner for our own tiny giant.”
Elton John Jones, brother to Jim Robert Sloane and Noelle Walton Sloane
“We get that people will think he’s called after Elton John but actually John is a family name which the first child of each generation on husband’s side gets as a middle name. And the name Elton is after a close friend who sadly died.”
Fitz Stephen Thomas, brother to Jane Darling and Anna Josephine
“We wanted a four-letter and slightly unexpected name to go with the girls. We liked that Fitz means ‘son of’, as he is one of the very few boys in the family.”
Niko Flint, brother to Devlin Quill
“We went round and round and couldn’t settle on anything until he was two days old. Niko was a name that I had thrown out as a long shot, and somehow it wound up on my husband’s top three.”
Tylar James
“When we first found out we were expecting a boy we picked out the name Gunther James, then towards the last week of my pregnancy we both fell in love with the name Tyler. I wanted his name to be unique so I asked his father if we could spell it Tylar so it would be like my name Skylar, so in a way it’s like he was named after me.”
Our 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.