Dog Names That Mean New Beginnings

Traditional Arabic choice, used for both boys and girls.

A possible alternative to the better-known Shoshona.

An obscure possibility...for a girl.

Lovely Hebrew name with distinctive double a's, but beware of possible "banana" teasing.

An Enoch for our times?

A lovely international version of the dated Karen, also spelled Karoun.

A name commonly used in India; Vasant Panchami is a Hindu festival dedicated to the goddess of learning.

One of the few K names that sounds middle-aged.

For sailors or jazz lovers. Or smokers of menthol cigarettes.

Rhythmic and enchanting.

Following a custom among scholars in Renaissance Germany, Neander is the classical form of the surname Newman. But the bullies at school are sure to call him Neanderthal.

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

Family name best used in the middle, especially since it was seen as the portly postman in Seinfeld.

A name only a bully could love.

The variation of Horatio used in Aragon, Spain.

Some will see this as spirited, others stuffy. The protagonist of the Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence was a popular and successful lawyer named Newbold Archer.

A stunning and unique West African name for a daughter.