100 Baby Names That Parents Didn’t Pick Last Year
Want an unusual name for your baby that no one else has? Well, then take a sticky beak at this list.
Baby naming site Nameberry analysed the names that were given to American babies last year and then compared them against their database. They found that there were 5,000 monikers that parents avoided calling their little one.
Here are 100+ names that weren’t recorded last year (some are pretty unusual).
Girl names that weren’t picked:
Acantha
Meaning: The name Acantha is a Greek name and means ‘Sharp pointed or thorned’.
Araminta
Meaning: This name is thought to be a compound of Arabella and Aminta.
Artemesia
Meaning: This is a variation of the Greek mythology name Artemis, who was the goddess of fertility and hunting.
Bee
Meaning: Like the insect, who is a ‘busy worker’.
Bluebell
Meaning: ‘Blue flower’.
Branwen
Meaning: This Welsh name means ‘beautiful flower’.
Calico
Meaning: ‘Cloth’.
Capucine
Meaning: French meaning ‘cowl’.
Ceil
Meaning: Latin meaning ‘blind’.
Chandra
Meaning: Hindu name meaning ‘light’.
Cia
Meaning: ‘Of the moon’.
Coralia
Meaning: ‘Maiden’.
Daffodil
Meaning: ‘Flower’.
Dancer
Meaning: ‘To love to dance’.
Eluned
Meaning: ‘Idol, shape’.
Endellion
Meaning: ‘Fire soul’.
Eulalie
Meaning: ‘Well spoken’.
Fifer
Meaning: ‘A person from Fife’, an ancient Scottish kingdom.
Finola
Meaning: Irish name meaning ‘white shoulder’.
Freesia
Meaning: Flower name.
Frostine
Meaning: ‘Winter’.
Grania
Meaning: Irish name meaning ‘love’.
Hester
Meaning: ‘Star’.
Ianthe
Meaning: ‘Violet flower’.
Jericho
Meaning: ‘Mean’.
Jessamy
Meaning: Derivation of Jasmine, which means ‘flower’.
Jocasta
Meaning: ‘Shining moon’.
Kalindi
Meaning: In Sanskrit this name means ‘the sun’.
Kerensa
Meaning: ‘Love’.
Leocadia
Meaning: ‘Bright, clear, white’.
Letitia
Meaning: ‘Joy, happiness’.
Louisiana
Meaning: The female version of Louis, meaning ‘warrior’.
Ludovica
Meaning: ‘Pure light’.
Madrigal
Meaning: ‘Song of unaccompanied voices’.
Malou
Meaning: A compound name of Marie-Louise, popular in Denmark.
Marcellina
Meaning: ‘Of Mars’.
Mazarine
Meaning: ‘Blue’.
Melisande
Meaning: ‘Strength, determination’.
Minette
Meaning: ‘Faithful defender’.
Morwenna
Meaning: ‘Maiden’.
Nephele
Meaning: ‘Cloud’.
North
Meaning: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West named their daughter this name, because they say it means ‘the highest point’.
Oberon
Meaning: A character in Shakespeare’s Midnight Summer’s Dream. It means ‘noble and bearlike’.
Ottoline
Meaning: ‘Prosperous in battle’.
Perdita
Meaning: ‘Lost’.
Petronilla
Meaning: ‘Yokel’.
Remember
Meaning: This name came to America on the ship the Mayflower. No one will forget it.
Romola
Meaning: This Welsh name means ‘slender and fair’.
Samoa
Meaning: ‘Place-name’.
Sanne
Meaning: ‘Lily’.
Season
Meaning: ‘Time of sowing’.
Sheherazade
Meaning: A Persian name. It means ‘the person whose realm is free’.
Signy
Meaning: Daughter of Volsung.
Tally
Meaning: Pet form of Talia.
Thaddea
Meaning: ‘Brave’.
Undine
Meaning: ‘Wave’.
Venetia
Meaning: ‘From Venice’.
West
Meaning: ‘From the western world’.
Whimsy
Meaning: A surname that has been used as a first name.
Winsome
Meaning: ‘Charming or agreeable’.
Zephyrine
Meaning: ‘West wind’.
Boy names that weren’t picked:
Auberon
Meaning: ‘Elf’.
Averill
Meaning: ‘Born in April’.
Bard
Meaning: ‘Poet’.
Bas
Meaning: ‘Royal, kingly’.
Basie
Meaning: ‘Jazz name’.
Beach
Meaning: ‘Live by the water’.
Cassio
Meaning: ‘Empty, hollow’.
Cathal
Meaning: ‘Battle, mighty’.
Corentin
Meaning: ‘Hurricane’.
Drummer
Meaning: ‘From Drummer (U.K.)’.
Eleazer
Meaning: ‘My God has helped’.
Falconer
Meaning: ‘Trainer of falcons’.
Fenno
Meaning: ‘From Finland’
Florent
Meaning: ‘Flower’.
Gower
Meaning: ‘Pure’.
Gulliver
Meaning: ‘Glutton’.
Hiawatha
Meaning: ‘He makes rivers’.
Humphrey
Meaning: ‘Peaceful warrior’.
Kassian
Meaning: ‘The solitary man’.
Kermit
Meaning: ‘Free man’.
Land
Meaning: ‘Territory’.
Ludovic
Meaning: ‘Warrior’.
Merce
Meaning: ‘To amerce’.
Mingus
Meaning: ‘Tenants of a manor’.
Moe
Meaning: ‘To love’.
Nat
Meaning: ‘Gift of God’.
Nicholson
Meaning: ‘Son of Nichol’
Night
Meaning: ‘Darkness’.
Osgood
Meaning: ‘A divine Goth’.
Pagan
Meaning: ‘From the country’.
Per
Meaning: ‘Stone or rock’.
Pim
Meaning: ‘Resolute protection’.
Piran
Meaning: St. Piran is the Cornish patron saint of miners.
Placido
Meaning: ‘Quiet and calm’.
Rancher
Meaning: ‘To look after’.
Raoul
Meaning: ‘Wolf council’.
Roald
Meaning: ‘Powerful’.
Romilly
Meaning: ‘God’s beloved one’.
Roone
Meaning: ‘Red-haired’.
Rudyard
Meaning: ‘Red yard’.
Runyon
Meaning: ‘Son of a champion’.
Septimus
Meaning: ‘Born seventh’.
Sim
Meaning: ‘Listener’.
Spike
Meaning: ‘Pointed end’.
Story
Meaning: ‘Large’.
Taddeo
Meaning: ‘Praised or heart’.
Thibault
Meaning: ‘Brave people’.
Thoreau
Meaning: ‘Walden’.
Tibor
Meaning: ‘Sacred place’.
Traveler
Meaning: ‘Wanderlust’.
Whistler
Meaning: ‘Piper’.
Well, there you have it! 100 + baby names parents DIDN’T pick last year!
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