Names That Mean Blue
Updated Thu Sep 14 2023
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Names that mean blue got a big visibility boost when Beyonce and Jay-Z named their daughter Blue Ivy. The meaning blue relates to names in a range of styles, for both baby girls and baby boys.
Along with Sky on the girls' side, names that mean blue in the US Top 1000 include Celeste, Royal, Iris, and Lake.
Top boy names meaning blue in the US Top 1000 include Royal, River, Dion, and Jay.
Our collection of names with blue meanings also includes names that mean sky, names that mean heaven, and names related to blue elements of nature.
If you want to evoke the color blue in your child's name, you don't need to choose a literal color name but can look to other names the mean or are related to blue, such as Robin (those blue eggs!) and Iris, which comes in a beautiful purple-y blue color.
All our names meaning blue are here, ordered by their current popularity on Nameberry.
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- Aaliyah
Origin:
Variation of Aliya, ArabicMeaning:
"heavens, highborn, exalted"
- Alya
Origin:
ArabicMeaning:
"heavens, highborn, exalted"
- Aqua
Origin:
Color name
- Araceli
Origin:
SpanishMeaning:
"altar of the sky"
- Azul
Origin:
SpanishMeaning:
"blue"
- Azul
Origin:
SpanishMeaning:
"blue"
- Azula
Origin:
Modern invented nameMeaning:
"blue"
- Azure
Origin:
English color nameMeaning:
"sky blue"
- Azure
Origin:
English color nameMeaning:
"sky blue"
- Bay
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"berry"
- Bleu
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"blue"
- Bleuet
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"cornflower"
- Blewett
Origin:
English surnameMeaning:
"blue cloth; cornflower"
- Blu
Origin:
Variation of Blue, color name
- Blu
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"blue"
- Blue
Origin:
Color name
- Blue
Origin:
Color name
- Bluebell
Origin:
Flower name from EnglishMeaning:
"blue bell"
- Blues
Origin:
English word name
- Bluet
Origin:
Nature name, English from FrenchMeaning:
"blue"
- Caelum
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"heaven"
- Celeste
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Celestia
Origin:
Variation of Celeste, LatinMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Celestial
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"of the heavens, planets or stars"
- Celestin
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Celestina
Origin:
Italian and Spanish variation of CelesteMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Celestine
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Celestino
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"belonging to heaven"
- Celia
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Celimene
Origin:
Literary nameMeaning:
"heavenly strength"
- Celinda
Origin:
Variation of CeliaMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Celine
Origin:
French variation of CelesteMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Cerulean
Origin:
Color name
- Cerulean
Origin:
Color name
- Ciel
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"sky"
- Cielo
Origin:
ItalianMeaning:
"sky"
- Cobalt
Origin:
Color and nature name
- Cobalt
Origin:
Color and nature name
- Cyan
Origin:
Color name
- Cyan
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"greenish blue color"
- Cyane
Origin:
GreekMeaning:
"bright blue enamel"
- Dion
Origin:
Diminutive of Dionysius, GreekMeaning:
"child of heaven and earth"
- Fairuza
Origin:
ArabicMeaning:
"turquoise"
- Firouzeh
Origin:
PersianMeaning:
"turquoise"
- Gökçe
Origin:
TurkishMeaning:
"blue"
- Gormlaith
Origin:
GaelicMeaning:
"blue princess or illustrious lady"
- Hyacinth
Origin:
Flower name, from GreekMeaning:
"blue larkspur; precious stone"
- Indigo
Origin:
GreekMeaning:
"Indian dye"
- Indigo
Origin:
GreekMeaning:
"Indian dye"
- Iris
Origin:
Flower name; GreekMeaning:
"rainbow"
- Jay
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"jaybird"
- Juno
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"queen of the heavens"
- Kailani
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"sea and sky"
- Kalani
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"the heavens"
- Kalani
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"the heavens"
- Kehlani
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"sea and sky"
- Keilani
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"heaven, sky, glorious chief"
- Keyne
Origin:
Cornish variation of KaneMeaning:
"man of the eastern sky"
- Lake
Origin:
Nature name
- Lapis
Origin:
PersianMeaning:
"azure blue stone"
- Lazuli
Origin:
Persian place name
- Lazuli
Origin:
Persian place name
- Lilac
Origin:
English, from PersianMeaning:
"bluish or lilac"
- Livia
Origin:
Diminutive of Olivia or LatinMeaning:
"blue, envious"
- Lulani
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"sky"
- Marine
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"from the sea"
- Maya
Origin:
Greek; Central American Indian empire name; Latinate variation of May; Spanish, diminutive of Amalia; variation of Maia; HebrewMeaning:
"water"
- Mazarine
Origin:
French color name
- Meena
Origin:
HindiMeaning:
"blue semiprecious stone, bird"
- Midnight
Origin:
English word nameMeaning:
"twelve o'clock at night"
- Midnight
Origin:
English, word name
- Minahil
Origin:
Arabic, UrduMeaning:
"fountain, spring"
- Mora
Origin:
SpanishMeaning:
"blackberry"
- Navy
Origin:
Word name
- Navy
Origin:
Word name
- Neel
Origin:
HindiMeaning:
"sapphire blue"
- Neela
Origin:
Hindi, SanskritMeaning:
"sapphire blue"
- Neelam
Origin:
HindiMeaning:
"blue sapphire"
- Nila
Origin:
Indian, Tamil and HindiMeaning:
"dark blue"
- Nile
Origin:
River name and color nameMeaning:
"dark blue, indigo"
- Nilesh
Origin:
SanskritMeaning:
"the blue god, blue head"
- Nilima
Origin:
SanskritMeaning:
"dark blue"
- Noelani
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"heavenly mist"
- Ocean
Origin:
English, nature name
- Ocean
Origin:
English, nature nameMeaning:
"ocean"
- Oceane
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"ocean"
- River
Origin:
Nature name
- Robin
Origin:
Bird name; or English, diminutive of RobertMeaning:
"bright fame"
- Royal
Origin:
English word nameMeaning:
"royal"
- Royal
Origin:
English word nameMeaning:
"royal"
- Saffira
Origin:
Variation of Sapphire
- Safira
Origin:
Portuguese variation of Sapphira, GreekMeaning:
"sapphire"
- Sama
Origin:
ArabicMeaning:
"sky"
- Saphir
Origin:
Nordic, ArabicMeaning:
"sapphire; diplomat"
- Sapphire
Origin:
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin jewel nameMeaning:
"blue"
- Sea
Origin:
English word name
- Sea
Origin:
English word name
- Seablue
Origin:
English color name
- Sema
Origin:
TurkishMeaning:
"sky"
- Sena
Origin:
Korean; Hindi; Turkish; Arabic; EweMeaning:
"this world's beauty or grace; army; to praise; bringing heaven to earth"
- Shyam
Origin:
SanskritMeaning:
"dark, black, blue"
- Sini
Origin:
Finnish or SanskritMeaning:
"blue; white, fair"
- Sirje
Origin:
EstonianMeaning:
"blue-feathered"
- Sky
Origin:
Nature name
- Sky
Origin:
Nature name
- Skye
Origin:
Scottish place-name
- Skye
Origin:
Scottish place-name
- Skylynn
Origin:
Combination of Sky and Lynn
- Slate
Origin:
Word name
- Sunil
Origin:
SanskritMeaning:
"very dark blue"
- Talia
Origin:
Hebrew; Australian AboriginalMeaning:
"gentle dew from heaven; by the water"
- Tallie
Origin:
Diminutive of Talia, HebrewMeaning:
"gentle dew from heaven"
- Tally
- Teal
Origin:
Bird and color name
- Teal
Origin:
Bird and color name
- Thanh
Origin:
VietnameseMeaning:
"bright blue; brilliant"
- Tuesday
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"Tiu's Day,"
- Turquoise
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"Turkish stone"
- Ulanni
Origin:
HawaiianMeaning:
"heavenly beauty"
- Urania
Origin:
GreekMeaning:
"heavenly"
- Zafira
Origin:
ArabicMeaning:
"to succeed"
- Zemfira
Origin:
Unclear - possibly Greek or Romani
- Zeru
Origin:
BasqueMeaning:
"sky"