Spanish Baby Names: New Trends

Updated Fri Oct 02 2009

In southern Spain recently, researching Spanish baby names, I came up against the fact that Spain is a widely varied country with different languages and cultures — and different names depending on ethnicity and region.

Rather than simply Spanish baby names, there are Catalonian baby names and Basque names, names more popular in Galicia and those favored in Navarre. And of course names popular in Spain may be different from those used most widely in other Spanish-speaking countries, such as Mexico or Brazil.

Spanish baby names that are stylish today and may be ready for import to the U.S. include:

Spanish Names for Girls

Aitana

Alba

Amada

Aniceta

Arcelia

Aroa

Bianca

Calida

Lucia

Nuria

Pilar

Soledad

Trinidad

Yara

Spanish Names for Boys

Alejandro

Alvar

Bardo

Cayo

Hugo

Iker

Izan

Javier

Mateo

Navarro

Pablo

Palomo

Pol

Tadeo

Vivaldo

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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.

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