New Year Names

Traditional Arabic choice, used for both boys and girls.

The exact origins of Shprintza, and its original form, Shrprintze, are unknown, though it is speculated to be the Yiddish variation of the Spanish name Esperanza.

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

Aroon, also spelled Haroon, is the mythic charioteer of the dawn.

Good choice for a baby born in a hopeful time.

Less clunky than Imelda, and with a wonderful meaning.

Subtle choice for a baby born in the early morning.

Julia Styles used Newcomb as the middle name for her son Strummer.

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

Arabic name with ties to ancient royalty. Rapper Meek Mill gave this name to his oldest son.

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.

Way before January Jones made this month a fashionable girls' name, there was Princess Januaria of Brazil, daughter of the King of Portugal and the Archduchess of Austria. One of the most pointed yet most original January baby names.

A fresh artistic option with a lively sound.

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

A name only a bully could love.

Charismatic choice among January baby names.

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

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.