Baby names that mean new, newness, or new beginnings appeal to parents looking for a name that signifies the hope and fresh start a baby can bring to your life. 

Aurora, which means dawn, is the top name meaning new today. Along with Aurora, other popular names that mean new or new beginnings include Chloe, Xavier, Hope, Ace, Nova, Kia, and Zara.

Names that mean new are often used for New Year's babies or spring babies, but new is a wonderful meaning for a name for a baby girl or boy born at any time of year. We're finding that many parents today are looking for names that mean new or new beginnings to symbolize the start of a new era after a period of darkness.

New and new beginnings don't have to be the literal meanings of the names to work. We also include here names of boys and girls with meanings related to newness: fresh, green, spring, dawn, change, and the number one. 

These are baby names for girls and boys that mean change, newness, and dawn, in various cultures.

Names That Mean New and New Beginnings

If you love both <a href="https://nameberry.com/unique-names">unique baby names</a> and flower names for girls, Amaryllis might be a perfect choice for you. 

A showier flower name than Lily, but in the same botanical family, Amaryllis is not as outre as it might at first sound. It was used in Greek poetry as the appellation of pure pastoral beauties; Amaryllis is the heroine of Virgil's epic poem Ecologues, after whom the flower was named. 

Other references are characters in the George Bernard Shaw play Back to Methuselah and The Music Man. James Bond-creator Ian Fleming had a half sister named Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming, who was a noted British cellist.

Amaryllis

In Germanic mythology, Ostara is the goddess of springtime, fertility, and dawn. Her existence as a mythological figure was pieced together by scholar Jacob Grimm, who used evidence such as the German word for April (ostermonat) and parallels to the Anglo-Saxon Eostre. Ostara is also the modern German name for the Easter holiday.

Ostara

If you're looking for a name with Scandinavian roots, Dagny makes a strong and appealing import. Derived from Old Norse, it means "new day", perfect for a girl born around New Year's or the change of the seasons more generally. The name of the heroine in the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged, the name has several different pronunciations: DAHNG-nee in Swedish, DOW-nee in Danish, DAHG-nee in Finnish, DAWG-nee in Norwegian and DAG-nee or DAHG-nee in English.

Dagny

Javiera, pronounced ha-vee-AIR-a, is not as well used as twin brother JAVIER, but makes an attractive Latina choice.

Javiera

Idony is the Norse goddess of springtime and eternal youth, and this variation is both rare and straightforward, a winning combination.

Idona

Mika is a sparky and stylish Japanese girls' name that translates easily to English. Also used as a Slovene and Hebrew diminutive for Mihaela and Michaela, as an alternative spelling to the Biblical Micah, and as a Greek diminutive of Dimitra (via Mimika), it is a truly multi-cultural choice.
 
Also used as a masculine name, usually as a short form for Michael and its variations, Mika is a Top 100 choice in Israel for girls, while in the US, it is a unisex choice, given to 157 girls in a recent year, along with 49 boys. In Japan, it was a particular favorite back in the 70s and 80s.
 
Notable bearers include actress and singer Mika Nakashima, television host Mika Brzezinski, singer Mika Arisaka, and social media star Mika Salamanca.

Mika

Associated with a spring festival, this name is used by both Muslims and Christians. 

Nasima

Sleek, and fresh, Navin is a Hindi name that could fit in with the currently popular in/an/en/on-ending boys' names. 

Navin

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Names that mean new, new beginnings, and dawn, for baby girls and baby boys such as Aurora, Nova, and Xavier, with meanings, origins, and popularity. (Page 7)