New Year Names

Traditional Arabic choice, used for both boys and girls.

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

Good choice for a baby born in a hopeful time.

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.

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

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.

A fresh artistic option with a lively sound.

Subtle choice for a baby born in the early morning.

Less clunky than Imelda, and with a wonderful meaning.

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

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

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

Rhythmic and enchanting.

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

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.

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.

A name only a bully could love.

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

Charismatic choice among January baby names.