910+ Middle Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

Spunky old vaudeville era nickname name suddenly sounds new again.

Eleven didn't feel more namelike than any other number...until the (female) "Stranger Things" character came along. Now it seems like a possibility - albeit a rare one - for both sexes. Other associations include the number of players in a football team, and Apollo 11, the spacecraft of the first moon landing.

If Fable, Story and Saga are getting a look in, why not Allegory? Allegory offers the cute nickname Ally.

In 2014, six little girls in the US were given the name Starlit. Starlit has a sweeter meaning than the similar Starlet, and a better ring than Starlight.

Why beat around the bush with a name like Elvis or Axl when you can come right out and name your baby Rocker? Your grandma will be scandalized, but teenage Rocker will kiss your feet.

In the Capability Brown vein -- not a choice to be made lightly.

Fresh, evocative choice.

Lyric is a name given to over 1000 boys and girls each year in the US. Could the more feminine Lyrical (given to only 20 girls each year) become more popular as parents look to find less common alternatives to this musical name?

A sixties-style name that might work best as a middle.

A sixties-style name that might work best as a middle.

Many parents are seeking a strong name--well there's no denying that Strong fits that bill.

Kerr, a simple, unusual unisex middle-name choice, can be pronounced either car or kehr.

A word that's been used, very infrequently, as a name for hundreds of years. Interesting sound and meaning.

Modern virtue name, playing on the word "tough".

Stricter than Peace or Justice.

Cool middle name possibility.

Sarah Palin and husband Todd, creative baby-namers, named their oldest son Track because of their love for running.

Chosen by one musician, Todd Rundgren, for his son, but unlikely to be emulated by others.

This Puritan virtue name is unstylish, but sympathetic and appealing, in these largely uncomfortable times.

Straightforward yet romantic, this is one newly minted name with long-term appeal, especially as a middle name. It was used as such for Tea Leoni and David Duchovny's Madelaine, whom they call West. Definitely ambigender, it was chosen by Marley Shelton for her daughter.