New Baby Girl Names

Ezra is a biblical favorite for boys that's been making inroads into the girls' Top 1000 since 2018 and it's easy to see why. With its soft sounds and -a ending, it holds the same appeal as Noa, Sasha, Micah, and Luka do: short, sweet, and solid. 2024 saw Ezra climb 61 places up the US charts, placing it just outside the Top 700.
 
Though it was given to nearly 400 baby girls in 2024, that's still below the 10% cutoff required to make a name truly unisex. More than 8770 baby boys were named Ezra last year, meaning only 5% of Ezras born in the US were girls. 
 Lovers of Ezra for a girl might like the pretty Turkish name Esra, a variant of Arabic Isra meaning "she who travels by night". There's also Ezri, which, thanks to pop culture, is now more popular for girls.

Ezra

Like its single "n" sister name (Braelyn), Braelynn is currently enjoying its highest level of popularity. Unlike Braylin and Braylyn, the 'ae' of Braelynn gives the name a Scottish look, making it seem slightly less creative and more sturdy

Braelynn

A unisex surname now seeing some use for girls, as it fits right in with such trendy crossover girls' names  as Everly. Ellery and Emery, and others with the popular ly/leigh/lea ending

Ensley

Indigo is one of the most appealing and evocative of the new generation of color names. Color names have joined flower and jewel names -- in a big way -- and Indigo, a deep blue-purple dye from plants native to India, is particularly striking for both girls and boys. Indigo is the name of a character in the Ntozake Shange novel Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, and was used for his daughter by Lou Diamond Phillips.
 Some cultural references: The Indigo Girls are a folk duo, 'Mood Indigo' is a classic Duke Ellington jazz composition, and there is a 1970's New Age theory that Indigo children possess special, sometimes supernatural abilities.

Indigo

Sweet and simple, Ayah is a beautiful Arabic name with the particularly lovely meaning of "miracle". In Islam, Ayah refers to signs of God's existence, and is also the name for a verse in the Qur'an. Ayah was one of the newest entries to the US Top 1000 in 2023, feeling like a fresh alternative to popular cross-cultural choices like Layla, Maya, and Ayla. In a more recent year, it was chosen for 270 girls, while the similar Aya was given to nearly 500 babies.

Ayah

Strongly feminine variation of Colby with two prime associations: singer Colbie Caillat and actress Colbie Smulders (born Jacoba).

Colbie

As an English nickname, Emi can be short for anything beginning with (or containing) the popular "em" sound, such as Emily, Emilia, or maybe even Clementine.
 As a Japanese name, it can be formed of various different combinations of kanji characters, with different meanings, including "beautiful favor" "smile", "blessing, fruit" or "beautiful picture". It might also be used as a short form or part of the name Emiko. 
 
It might also be used as a Yoruba name, as either a short form of names such as Adeyemi or Olufemi or sometimes as a stand-alone, with the element emi meaning "mine, I, soul, spirit."
 
It's one of those names that works well across different cultures and in different places, from Hawaii to Japan, from Slovenia to Nigeria.

Aviana is a name that's like the megapopular Ava and Ariana, but not quite as popular as either. It entered into the mainstream back in 2010 however, after actress Amy Adams chose it for her daughter, fulfilling her desire to choose a "normal" name after all, even if it didn't seem like that a decade ago. 
 
Adams got the name from her place of birth, Aviano, Italy, though we suspect many parents go with Aviana for its bird related meaning and popular sounds. The first syllable of the name can be pronounced ah, ay, or av (like in have).
 
In 2024, it was a fast rising choice, given to over 400 girls, despite having previously been on the decline.

Aviana

Berkeley, with an extra E, is the more familiar variation of this name, associated with the California school. But it's the streamlined Berkley that has proven itself to be more popular as a baby name, at least in the US.
 
This name is pronounced BARK-lee in the UK, while in the US we say BIRK-lee.

Berkley

Stormi is like Sunni, with angst. If naming your child Storm or Stormy is asking for trouble, naming her Stormi -- as Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott did -- is asking for trouble of several different kinds. But we're sure she'll be adorable and as <a href="https://nameberry.com/fameberry">celebrity baby names</a> go, this one is nearly normal.

Stormi

A name with visible links to Sarah and Sarai, Sarahi is a rare and unusual name in the US, used to reflect the Spanish pronunciation of the name. It has made several appearances in the US Top 1000 every year since it debuted in 1996, while in Mexico, it ranked in the Top 200 in a recent year. 

Sarahi

This diminutive of Kimberley is gaining momentum as a standalone name. For our part, we're stumped by its rise.

Kimber

Sky may be a bit hippie-ish, but it's bright and sunny nonetheless. Sky rejoined the Top 1000 in 2013 after spending many years off the list. Sky was the choice of magician David Copperfield for his daughter, born in 2010. 

Love makes an endearing middle name, as in Jennifer Love Hewitt. However, more parents are considering Love as a first name — enough for it to enter the US charts for the first time in 2022 as one of the fastest-rising names of the year. 
 
Chosen for nearly 270 girls in a recent year — along with 21 boys — Love fits in with the likes of Dream, Blessing, Halo, Chosen, Dove, and Sunny. It was additionally used in the Marvel franchise, borne by the adoptive daughter of Thor; the release of the film Thor: Love and Thunder in 2022 coincided with the name entering the US stats for the first time. 
 
Used as a masculine name in Sweden, Love may also be said as LOO-veh if being viewed as a Swedish form of Louis,
 
Love Love but want something more subtle? Other love-related alternatives include Juliet, Mabel, Amore, and Carys.

Love

This evocative place-name is rising in popularity -- despite (or perhaps because of) the unfortunate association with an airplane that went missing in March 2014. 

Malaysia

This beautiful Hindi name made the US Top 1000 in 2016 and has been hopping on and off the bottom of that list since then. Aadhya is one of the many names for the Goddess Durga in Hinduism. Other forms are Aadya and Adya.

Aadhya

The name of the French town where a vision of the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared, this name is in the Spanish Top 100 and was, until recently, virtually unheard of elsewhere. Now however it is familiar in Puerto Rico and Chile, and as of 2019, it has been a feature in the US Top 1000. 
 
The name could come from the Basque aino meaning "goat".

Ainhoa

Though associated traditionally (and fashionably) with boys, it has been used occasionally for girls as well – by Garth Brooks, Nicolas Cage, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, for example. But August is used significantly more often for girls these days than traditional feminine variations Augusta and Augustina, and makes for a fresh twist on traditional month names like April and May, as well as an updated spin on season name Autumn.

August

The name of an affluent suburb of Columbus, Ohio and a section of Greater London, Bexley is increasingly being coopted by parents looking for a novel name in the Kinsley/AInsley/Paisley family. Bexley debuted on the US Top 1000 in 2016 and is definitely one of the trendiest <a href="https://nameberry.com/search/girls-names/b">girl names starting with B</a>. Think of it as a 21st century Becky.

Bexley, along with Bexlee and Bexleigh as well as nickname Bex, is used for several hundred baby girls each year in the US.

Bexley

, names derived from words or places or nature or surnames, are springing up all the time.

New names for baby girls that rank in the US Top 1000

 include nature names Wren and Juniper, word name Royal, and new import Noa, popular for baby girls in Israel.

New baby names for girls can be found in a diverse range of places. You might look at girl names established in other countries or at other times in history but new to your home country.

Or you might turn a word that isn't a name into a first name for your daughter. Or you can 

 or an entirely new name for your baby girl.

If you're looking for new names for your baby girl, either invented or borrowed or rediscovered, here's our comprehensive list of new girl names.

New names for baby girls, including invented names, names from places and words, and other baby girl names that were not names before, with origins, meanings, and popularity. (Page 6)