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Surname Names for Baby Girls

  1. Demille
    • Origin:

      French occupational surname
    • Meaning:

      "miller"
    • Description:

      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.
  2. Ng
    • Origin:

      Chinese
    • Description:

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

      English word name
    • Meaning:

      "wave"
    • Description:

      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.
  4. Swann
    • Origin:

      French
    • Meaning:

      "nature and literary name"
    • Description:

      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.
  5. Larin
    • Origin:

      Surname name
    • Description:

      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.
  6. Peura
    • Origin:

      Finnish
    • Meaning:

      "deer"
    • Description:

      Most commonly seen as a surname in Finland, where it means "deer." Maybe for a Christmas baby.
  7. Vivaldi
    • Origin:

      Italian surname
    • Meaning:

      "life"
    • Description:

      A bright and dynamic surname closely tied to the legendary Baroque composer of the Four Seasons. Viv or Vivi are easy nicknames.
  8. Fairfax
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "blond"
    • Description:

      Place name and surname that sounds a tad snooty.
  9. Mackinley
    • Origin:

      Scottish
    • Meaning:

      "son of the fair hero"
    • Description:

      A spelling spin on presidential surname McKinley.
  10. Ferebee
    • Origin:

      English place-name and surname
    • Description:

      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.
  11. Nomura
    • Origin:

      Japanese
    • Meaning:

      "field village"
    • Description:

      Japanese surname occasionally heard as a first.
  12. Templer
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "church attendant"
    • Description:

      An old English surname denoting either a servant of one of the Knights Templar, or a person living near or serving at a church.
  13. Bader
    • Origin:

      German
    • Meaning:

      "bath house attendant"
    • Description:

      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.
  14. Sumner
    • Origin:

      English occupational name
    • Meaning:

      "summoner"
    • Description:

      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.
  15. An
    • Origin:

      Chinese or Vietnamese
    • Meaning:

      "peace or safe, secure"
    • Description:

      A gender-neutral Chinese name that originated as a surname, An can be used for girls or boys and means peace or quiet. An may also be a Vietnamese name meaning safe and secure. Its equivalence to the English article an may make it feel slight in an English-dominant culture.
  16. Cloverly
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "meadow of clover"
    • Description:

      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.
  17. Glika
    • Origin:

      Yiddish
    • Meaning:

      "luck"
    • Description:

      The Yiddish name from which the common matronymic Jewish surname Glick derives.
  18. Colandrea
    • Origin:

      Surname name
    • Description:

      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.
  19. Sinatra
    • Origin:

      Italian surname
    • Description:

      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.
  20. Kiptyn
    • Origin:

      Variation of Kipton
    • Description:

      This spelling variation of the preppy surname Kipton leans feminine.