A strong, warm name and a strong warm color. Would make an excellent alternative to August or Aubrey.

One of the new color names that is catching on, invoking a calm, blue-green-sea feeling.

One of the more unusual of the current crop of strong, single-syllable boys' names, evoking the images of both old-fashioned blackboards and modern stepping-stones and countertops.

Among the first wave of word names used in the hippie era, it actually is a legitimate girl's name with a lot of luster.

Magenta is a vivid Crayola color name, that could make a vivid, colorful choice. It was named in 1859 after the Napoleonic Battle of Magenta, a town in Northern Italy.

Third place on the sports field, but potentially more wearable than either Silver or Gold, Bronze feels modern and edgy.

With the popularity of Isabella, you might think of Isabelline as a further elaboration -- though it would be the definition of gilding the lily. But Isabelline is also a color, an amorphous pale yellow-gray-cream most often seen in horses' coats or birds' plumage.

Rustic and cosy, Russet is a color name, associated with the reddish-brown hues of earth and autumn, with homespun cloth, apples, and perhaps less appealingly, potatoes. While it has never featured in the US charts, it has plenty of potential.