April Names

Tied to country singer/sitcom star Reba McEntire.

An uncommon surname name with that energetic -er ending. Might appeal especially to baseball fans.

Spring doesn't sound half as contemporary as Winter, which has become the cool season name.

Taura is a possibility for a girl born between mid-April and mid-May, but, if a name is destiny, its meaning does suggest stubbornness. Consider Laura, Flora, or Honora instead.

Shoshanna is a variation of one of the best-known original Hebrew baby names for girls , the original of Susanna. This is the spelling used by Shoshanna Lonstein, a designer who creates the Shoshanna clothing line and also the name of one of the four leading characters on the TV show Girls, Shoshanna Shapiro.

A symbolic name for boys born during a period between Passover and Shavuot.

Stiff and formal surname. Try Roone instead.

An international take on Dara.

This evocative name of a dramatic tropical Indian fig tree is ready to move west.

Rarely heard but pleasing feminissima name for a baby girl.

Diamond sparkled all through the nineties--reaching as high as Number 150 in 1999. Although its shine has diminished quite a bit, it remains in use.

Etheridge is a surname derived from the English name Edric. As a first name, it's most commonly associated with American poet and civil rights activist Etheridge Knight.

Easter has been used as a name for several hundred years, as part of the day-naming tradition; now, this rarely heard holiday celebration name would make a novel choice for a springtime baby. Background:The early Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar Bede took the name of a goddess--Eostre-- whose feast was celebrated at the vernal equinox and gave it to the Christian festival of the resurrection of Christ.

This Spanish month name has been quietly used for several years now in the US.

This Spanish month name has been quietly used for several years now in the US.

A place name relating to the tropical palm tree.

Shulamit--which has a variety of different spellings--is a serious-sounding Old Testament name that appears in the Song of Songs. Its common nickname is Shula, which is sometimes used on its own. Toni Morrison used the sleeker variation Sula in one of her novels.

If you want to move beyond Maya.

Rarely heard last-name-first choice with nice gardenlike feel.

Biblical family with 323 children. That's a lot of eggs.