Surname Names for Baby Girls
- Demille
Origin:
French occupational surnameMeaning:
"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.
- Ng
Origin:
ChineseDescription:
Cantonese surname that is occasionally heard as a first. The lack of vowels would make this one hard to wear in English-speaking countries.
- Wave
Origin:
English word nameMeaning:
"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.
- Swann
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"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.
- Larin
Origin:
Surname nameDescription:
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.
- Peura
Origin:
FinnishMeaning:
"deer"Description:
Most commonly seen as a surname in Finland, where it means "deer." Maybe for a Christmas baby.
- Vivaldi
Origin:
Italian surnameMeaning:
"life"Description:
A bright and dynamic surname closely tied to the legendary Baroque composer of the Four Seasons. Viv or Vivi are easy nicknames.
- Fairfax
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"blond"Description:
Place name and surname that sounds a tad snooty.
- Mackinley
Origin:
ScottishMeaning:
"son of the fair hero"Description:
A spelling spin on presidential surname McKinley.
- Ferebee
Origin:
English place-name and surnameDescription:
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.
- Nomura
Origin:
JapaneseMeaning:
"field village"Description:
Japanese surname occasionally heard as a first.
- Templer
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"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.
- Bader
Origin:
GermanMeaning:
"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.
- Sumner
Origin:
English occupational nameMeaning:
"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.
- An
Origin:
Chinese or VietnameseMeaning:
"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.
- Cloverly
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"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.
- Glika
Origin:
YiddishMeaning:
"luck"Description:
The Yiddish name from which the common matronymic Jewish surname Glick derives.
- Colandrea
Origin:
Surname nameDescription:
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.
- Sinatra
Origin:
Italian surnameDescription:
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.
- Kiptyn
Origin:
Variation of KiptonDescription:
This spelling variation of the preppy surname Kipton leans feminine.