Gwyneth Paltrow's Apple may still be the most famous case, but these days she's far from the only celebrity child with a word name. Today, there are enough <a href="https://nameberry.com/fameberry">celebrity baby names</a> that are also words that we can fill a whole long list with them.
 
The Kardashians particularly love word names and can be credited with the success of Dream and Saint, among others.
 
Along with Dream and Saint, other celebrity baby word names in the US Top 1000 include Bear, Ember, Haven, Lyric, Major, Reign, Seven, and Winter. Among the most novel choices of recent years are Ice, Chapel, Rumble, and Powerful.
 
In their ever-widening search for new and unique names, celebrities are turning to words that relate to nature, spirituality, animals, places, weather, colors, even numbers. Bonus: many of these, by virtue of being new and unconventional, count as truly <a href="https://nameberry.com/unisex-names">unisex baby names</a>. Here, word names that have been used in recent years for celebrity babies.

Celebrity Baby Word Names

Less common than other virtue names, Liberty is nonetheless a name with a long American heritage. Liberty is seeing a level of popularity not seen since the end of the First World War, but its heyday was probably the mid-19th Century when it became popular in the aftermath of the US Civil War, particularly among African-American freedmen. Liberty was also popular following the American War of Independence and even among some Puritan colonies. Some quirky parents may have considered using this name in the wake of the successful film Juno – Juno’s younger sister is called Liberty-Bell.

Liberty

Lion is a masculine name taken straight from the name of the animal, associating it with strength, courage, and nobility across many cultures. With Germanic, French, and English language roots, Lion functions both as a standalone name and as a shortened form of names like Lionel. 

Though relatively uncommon as a given name in English-speaking countries, as Fox, Tiger, Wolf, and Raven become more familiar, Lion could work as a twist on Leon and Leo. Given to 31 boys in a recent year, it was additionally chosen as a middle name by YouTubers Savannah Jean and Josh Alexander (Sav&Josh) for their son born in 2026. 
 
Additionally, Lion is occasionally used as a Hebrew name, blending the elements Li and On to give it the meaning "my strength". In this case, it would be considered unisex, and pronounced as lee-ON.

Lion

A flower name containing both beauty and power, Lotus has significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism, symbolizing purity, grace and spiritual growth — not to mention a familiar yoga position.
 In ancient Greece, the lotus was a legendary plant, whose fruit was eaten by the mythical lotus eaters, causing them to go into a state of hypnotic forgetfulness. Lotus Flower is a Chinese character in the 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning Pearl S. Buck novel, The Good Earth.
 
Lotus is gaining in popularity with over 120 girls receiving the name in a recent year. Rain Pryor, daughter of comedian Richard, named her daughter Lotus Marie in 2008; chef Richard Blais used it in the middle spot for daughter Emory Lotus in 2011; actress Teresa Palmer chose it for her daughter Lotus Bloom in 2025.

Lotus

Celebrity baby names drawn from words, including word names for male celebrity babies and girl celebrity baby names that are words, with meanings, origins, and popularity. (Page 8)