999+ Nature Names for Babies

It sounds like a modern nature name, but Leafy was coined as a Puritan nickname for the girls' name Relief, which referred to the relief of Christ.

Corymbia is the botanical name of many species of beautiful flowering gum trees. It is a rare, but attested, girls name in Australia.

Aromatic but also problematic.

Brooke variation – or is the other way around? – that makes it more a nature name, less an eighties-style androgynous name.

Isle is a super rare nature name that sounds like an appealing unisex form of Isla.

An attractive update to Gladys.

Gladiola is a character in the 1991 novel and 1995 film How to Make an American Quilt

The Latin name for the holly tree would make an interesting nature-inspired alternative to Alex.

Nature names are often associated with Spring and Summer, but Glacier is ideal for a winter baby.

Blakeley is one of the many -ley ending surnames that is being adopted as a first name, updating the 80s darlings Blake and Ashley.

Model Trish Goff's Nima is a boy, but the a ending gives this name a feminine feel.

Irrevocably tied to long-lived, controversial South Carolina senator Strom (born James) Thurman; Strom, which sounds like an anagram of Storm, was his mother's maiden name. With a stretch, you might consider this one of the German names for boysthat's also a nature name.

Baby girl names ending in lynn seem to become more numerous all the time, and this choice combining the pretty nature suffix Lake with lyn seems destined for more widespread use. Lakelynn and her sister name Lakelyn both entered the Top 1000 for the first time in 2022, with the Lakelynn spelling slightly taking the lead.

Patrin is a truly unusual yet easily comprehended choice.

A rare flower name that works as well for boys as it does for girls, so named because of its resemblance to a small glove.

Shady, leafy nature-boy name.

Solemn but soaring name with patriotic symbolism.

An old-man name that sounds cute when used for a little girl, and is starting to seem cool again for boys too.

Also a city near Tel Aviv, Hadar is a name found primarily in Israel. There is also a citrus fruit associated with the holiday of Sukkat the Torah calls the "hadar fruit".

In 2020, Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden named their daughter Raddix Chloe Wildflower. They invented the name themselves, but radix is a Latin word meaning "root," giving it a nature and linguistics connection.