UK Baby Names

The spelling makes the tradition Non even more of a non-name.

In 2014, six little girls in the US were given the name Starlit. Starlit has a sweeter meaning than the similar Starlet, and a better ring than Starlight.

In the Plymouth Colony of the seventeenth century, Thankful was the third most popular of the abstract word names. It disappeared after 1700 and has virtually no chance of returning.

Ivy League choice many will mistake for the Israeli favorite Yael, which has a different root and meaning.

Named for Millard. Or the late great rock palace.

Stick with North.

Surname choice that's neither new nor bold. Newbold was the middle name of Edith Wharton.

Beautiful downtown Burbank -- about as glamorous a place-name as Akron...or Detroit.

Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.

Baby name as political statement.

Ilisa is a spelling variant that's less appealing than the original.

Kerr, a simple, unusual unisex middle-name choice, can be pronounced either car or kehr.

Prettier: the growing-in-popularity Paisley, a suburb of Glasgow, or even Scotland itself, used as a middle name by Kourtney Kardashian.