6000+ Dog Names

While Austin is a popular boys' name, this spelling, honoring novelist Jane, nudges the name toward gender-neutral, chosen last year for 67 baby boys and 57 girls.

Though it sounds like Karen, this spelling makes the name more distinctive.

This beautiful Māori name meaning love (cognate with Hawaiian aloha) is more wearable than the English word and softer Venus or Aphrodite. Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern named her daughter Neve Te Aroha in 2018. Aroha / Te Aroha was the most popular Māori baby girl name in 2023-24.

More common -- when it was common -- with the Meyer spelling.

Kujo emerged as a dog name as a variation of Cujo — Stephen King's rabid St. Bernard from his 1981 novel.

Derived from the Tigrinya elements hiyab, meaning "gift," and el, "God."

Common name in Japan primarily associated with Hitomi (Furuya), a mononymous Japanese singer.

No babies of any gender were named Orange in the US in the most recent year counted. But that doesn't mean, in this era of anything-goes baby names, that it couldn't happen.

Tenzan is a variation of Tenzin, a name with special significance for Buddhists, being the first name of the Dalai Lama.

Zafreen variant used by Stephenie Meyer in the Twilight saga.

Lithe and leonine name chosen for her daughter by singer Erykah Badu -- whose other child has the number name Seven.

While we don't see many parents adopting Otter as a name for their own babies, Zooey Deschanel put this one in the lexicon when she used it as a middle name for her adorably-named daughter Elsie Otter. Even in the celebrisphere, Otter is one of the most unique baby names we've heard.

One of the more subtle of the names with a royal meaning, Delroy has a vintage flavor and would be a distinctive choice today.

Derived from the Welsh word for gold, pronounced differently from the European currency.

An increasing number of parents are using the Italian word for love as a baby name in the US.

Truly a cross-cultural name, with usage in Germany, Scandinavia, India, France, and Iceland.

Old-timey surname that's been very rarely used.

Common name for Japanese video game and manga characters, but rarely heard in the US.