300+ Food Baby Names

  1. Honoka
    • Origin:

      Japanese
    • Meaning:

      "harmony + flower; fragrant grain"
    • Description:

      Five sets of parents were recently inspired to use this floral Japanese name by the anime series Dead or Alive, which features a martial artist and student character named Honoka.
  2. Tamari
    • Origin:

      Georgian variation of Tamar, Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "date palm tree"
    • Description:

      Tamari is a rare form of Tamar that used on girls and boys in the US. Beware that tamari is a gluten-free soy sauce-like condiment.
  3. Menta
    • Origin:

      Italian, Hungarian
    • Meaning:

      "mint"
    • Description:

      An uncommon name occasionally heard in Italy and Hungary, where it is also the word for "mint."
  4. Allium
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "garlic"
    • Description:

      Allium is the genus of all onion-y plants, including garlic, leeks, shallots, scallions, and chives. It makes an intriguing nouveau nature name or update to Allison.
  5. Peachy
    • Origin:

      English word name
    • Meaning:

      "peach-like, satisfactory"
    • Description:

      A peachy-keen take on the fruit names Peach and Peaches. Peachy has the additional colloquial meaning of "satisfactory."
  6. Boróka
    • Origin:

      Hungarian word name and diminutive of Borbála
    • Meaning:

      "juniper; foreign woman"
    • Description:

      Popular in Hungary where it ranks in the Top 100, Boróka may be considered a word name, meaning "juniper" in Hungarian, making this an equivalent to the stylish English word name. It is also used however as a diminutive to Borbála, the Hungarian form if Barbara.
  7. Meva
    • Origin:

      Uzbek
    • Meaning:

      "fruit"
  8. Alahni
    • Origin:

      Variation of Alani, Hawaiian
    • Meaning:

      "orange tree"
    • Description:

      Creative Alani spelling gaining traction.
  9. Pudeena
    • Origin:

      Hindi, Sindhi, and Bengali
    • Meaning:

      "mint, peppermint"
    • Description:

      A rare minty baby name occasionally used in India. The Pudina spelling is slightly more popular.
  10. Enav
    • Origin:

      Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "grape"
    • Description:

      Enav hits all the style notes of modern names, as a short, gender-neutral name with a strong V. The cute fruit meaning adds to its charms.
  11. Annonaria
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "she who supplies corn"
    • Description:

      In Roman mythology, Annonaria was an aspect of the goddess Fortuna. Her name is derived from the Latin annona, meaning "corn" or "grain".
  12. Hadara
    • Origin:

      Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "fruit or glory"
    • Description:

      Hadara is a Hebrew name associated with the holiday of Sukkot, the harvest festival. In the Torah, the citrus fruit etrog, used on the holiday, is called a "hadar fruit".
  13. Ajda
    • Origin:

      Slovene
    • Meaning:

      "buckwheat"
    • Description:

      A Top 20 name in Slovenia that is homophonous with Ida.
  14. Takala
    • Origin:

      Native American, Hopi
    • Meaning:

      "corn tassel"
    • Description:

      A given name found among the Hopi people as well as a Finnish surname.
  15. Mētra
    • Origin:

      Latvian
    • Meaning:

      "mint"
    • Description:

      Mētra is the Latvian word for the mint plant and is seen as both a given name and a surname, although it is rare in both cases.
  16. Ioulo
    • Origin:

      Greek
    • Meaning:

      "grain sheaf; corn sheaf"
    • Description:

      Ioulo is an epithet of Demeter, primarily used in depictions of the goddess carrying a sheaf.
  17. Omer
    • Origin:

      Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "sheaf of corn"
  18. Nigella
    • Origin:

      Feminine variation of Nigel; botanical name from Latin
    • Meaning:

      "black"
    • Description:

      A name that sounded unthinkably priggish until it became attached to Domestic Goddess British TV chef Nigella Lawson (named for her father), who gave it a big dollop of glamour.
  19. Thyme
    • Origin:

      English herb name
    • Description:

      Not time yet for Thyme.
  20. Sumomo
    • Origin:

      Japanese
    • Meaning:

      "plum"
    • Description:

      Refers to a particular variety of Japanese plum, the Prunus salicina, although in a literal translation it would mean "sour peach."