Surname Names for Baby Girls

Obscure surname and Yorkshire and Lincolnshire place-name (where it's spelled Ferriby) makes a jaunty first. Placed in the public eye by Manhattan socialite Ferebee Bishop Taube.

Place name and surname that sounds a tad snooty.

Cantonese surname that is occasionally heard as a first. The lack of vowels would make this one hard to wear in English-speaking countries.

Demille might be an honor name for director Cecil B. DeMille, a Founding Father of the American Cinema. DeMille directed such blockbuster films as The Greatest Show on Earth and The Ten Commandments</>. The surname Demille might also be used as a spin on the increasingly popular last name as first Miller.

A unisex French name that ranks in the Top 200 for boys and the Top 500 for girls there, inspired by a character with the surname Swann in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. As a given name, it was popularized by the 1984 film Un amour de Swann ("Swann in Love"), directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

Wave is used as a name in its own right, but on girls, it's most often seen as a nickname for Waverly. It lends a beachy, bohemian air to the classy English surname.

This steely surname has a simple, strong sound – similar to names like Sloane or Clarke.

Keller is a German surname that originated as an occupational name for a cellar or store master. It may be an honorific for deaf-blind author and activist Helen Keller.

A Yoruba surname as well as a unisex given name.

This preppy alternative to Gen Z favorite Summer has the potential to be a big surname hit for girls. It recently gained media attention from Instagram model Sumner Stroh.

A German occupational surname deriving from the German word Bad, meaning "bath". Its most famous bearer in recent years has been (the notorious) RBG – former Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, making this a great feminist name or a nod to a lawyer in the family. Its simple, dynamic, er-ending sound fits right in with the likes of Harper, Piper and Saylor.

A music hero surname that first entered the charts as a girl name in 2020. Frank Sinatra's surname comes from his Sicilian father: it is thought to have originated from a nickname for a senator or magistrate.

An international surname, most common in Russia and its environs, that was used as the name of a recurring character in Netflix's short-lived Naomi Watts vehicle Gypsy. Fun fact: It also means "hearth" in Venetian.

Most commonly seen as a surname in Finland, where it means "deer." Maybe for a Christmas baby.

With Clover rising up the charts, and Everly, Emberly, Waverly and Oakley on trend, it is possibly that this English surname may catch on, especially with its whimsical meaning.

The Yiddish name from which the common matronymic Jewish surname Glick derives.

The full name of one of the main characters on Netflix's Dear White People, though she usually goes by Coco. Colandrea occasionally pops up as a surname, but as a first name, it feels more like a mashup of Coco and Andrea -- and a not unappealing mashup at that.

An attractive unisex surname name, possibly derived from Adeline. May also be a variant of Eadlin.

A surname-sounding Armenian name that might not make a very smooth transition into American culture.

Variation of the Basque surname Zabala. Matt Damon used it as the middle name for his daughter Gia.