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Autry
French surname
"noble strength"
A fresh take on the fashionable Audrey and Aubrey, or another novel surname name which seems fitting for either sex.
Akika
Autumn Rose
Autumne
Boden
Callum
Scottish form of Columba, Latin
"dove"
Callum is virtually unused for girls in the US, but we could easily see it fitting in with other boy names for girls such as Elliot, Asher, and August.
Chiaki
Japanese
"one thousand autumns"
Maybe if you really love Autumn.
Cinnamon
Word name, English from Greek
"cinnamon"
A sweet and rare spice name, which made its first and only appearance on the US baby name charts in 1969 — the year Neil Young's song "Cinnamon Girl" was released.
Dawn
English word name
"dawn, sunrise"
Associated with the first light of the day, and more figuratively with new beginnings and fresh starts, Dawn's heyday came in the 1960s and 70s in the US, Canada and the UK. It had been in the charts…
December
English word name
"tenth month"
Cooler than April, May, or June, but also a tad icy. December gets its name from the number ten as the old Roman calendar only had ten months, and as now, December was the last.
Evening
Day name
Though this feels like a new invention, people have used day names such as Morning and Afternoon for centuries -- and so why not Evening too? It's a lovely word with an evocative meaning and makes a…
Fall
English word name
"autumn; move downward"
Not as evocative as Autumn.
Fern
English
"plant name"
Of all the botanicals, Fern has been one of the slowest to move back from the front parlor into the nursery, despite the appealing girl character in the children's classic Charlotte's Web . Fern was…
Freedom
English word name
"the quality or state of being free"
Name that makes a strong philosophical statement -- but might ironically be a lot for a child to carry.
Garland
Word name
Garland is fragrant and celebratory, and also has a celebrity-tribute tie to the star of The Wizard of Oz .
Harum
Indonesian
"aromatic"
The English homophone "harem" means something very different, but Harum is a pretty name nonetheless.
Harvest
English word name
Harvest has been occasionally used as a name since the eighteenth century, originally as evenly unisex, but in the US data for last year was starting to lean more female, given to 29 girls and 11…
Hazan
Turkish
"autumn"
This seasonal name has never been in the US charts. But as Turkish names become more popular in the US, it could be an appealing option.
Holiday
English word name
"holy day"
A fun and confident choice, Holiday is a celebratory name, particularly associated with Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukah, and New Year, and with rest, leisure, and vacations more generally. Fitting…
January
English month name from Latin
"doorway"
Thanks to two cultural influences, January has joined March, April, June and August as a plausible month name. The first was a character named January Wayne in a bestselling 1973 Jacqueline Susann…