Future daughter #1

The names

• Olive

  English, from Latin, nature name

  "olive tree"

  Though greatly overshadowed by the trendy Olivia, Olive has a quiet, subtle appeal of its own -- and is now enjoying a remarkable comeback. Olive is one of only four girl names starting with O on the…

  

• Maren

  Latin

  "sea"

  Maren is one of the many twenty-first-century takes on Mary--but we find the more classic Marin spelling preferable. When spelled Maren, the pronunciation seems more clearly to resemble Mary, with…

  

• Carys Joanne

• Ramona Tay

• Stella Maeve

• Daphne Claire

• Iris Twila

• Caitlyn Wren

• Juno Lynn

• Isa Jean Elizabeth

• Calista

  Greek

  "most beautiful"

  Spelled with either one 'l' or two, Calista came to the fore in 1997 when Calista Flockhart hit it big as Ally McBeal. Flockhart, who bears her mother's middle name, didn't just introduce a name, she…