Celebrity Baby Nature Names
- Sparrow
Origin:
Nature nameMeaning:
"sparrow, a bird"Description:
With related choices such as Lark and Phoenix gaining popularity, why not Sparrow? Though it's usually thought of as a female name, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden chose it for their son.
- Nightingale
Origin:
Bird name from GermanMeaning:
"night singer"Description:
Charming nature name made even more appealing by the connection to iconic nurse and statistician Florence Nightingale.
- Tiger
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"animal name"Description:
Other wild animals like Fox, Wolf and Bear are catching on as baby names, and Tiger is a rarer option with several famous namesakes, including golf champ Tiger Woods, who was born Eldrick. Other famous Tigers include Indian actor Tiger Shroff, born Jai, and British actor Tyger Drew-Honey, who spells his name with a Y.
- Frost
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"freezing"Description:
Long heard as a last name, as in venerable poet Robert, U.K. talk show host David, British actress Sadie and old Jack Frost, Frost has suddenly entered the scene as a possible first, along with other seasonal weather names like Winter and Snow.
- Rainbow
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"rainbow"Description:
Colorful, yes, but also probably among the hippiest of hippie names. Holly Madison recently chose it for her little girl.
- Falcon
Origin:
Bird nameDescription:
There is a whole new species of bird names open to the baby namer, from the light and feminine Lark to the sleek and powerful Falcon.
- Petal
Origin:
English from GreekMeaning:
"leaf"Description:
Petal is the soft and sweet-smelling name of a character in the novel and film, The Shipping News. With the rise of such flower names as Poppy and Posy, we believe Petal — down-to-earth yet romantic — has its own appealingly distinctive style.
- Everest
Origin:
Place-name, world's tallest mountainDescription:
Everest has an attractive enough sound and lofty enough meaning to come into style, à la Sierra. George Lucas bestowed this aspirational name on his baby daughter.
- Breeze
Origin:
Word nameDescription:
Most will see this as a refreshing middle name possibility, but Bristol Palin baby daddy Levi Johnston used it as a first name for his new daughter, Breeze Beretta.
- Lion
- Antarctica
Origin:
Latin from GreekMeaning:
"opposite the north"Description:
Ed Sheeran put this continental place name on the map when he used it as the middle name for his daughter Lyra, born in 2020.
- Malti
Origin:
Sanskrit flower nameDescription:
Malti is an Indian floral name from the plant madhumalti — a tropical flowering vine that is known in English as the Rangoon creeper. In India, Madhu and Malti are often used as twin names or as a first/middle name combination.
- Mint
Origin:
English word name or diminutive of Araminta, English from Greek and LatinMeaning:
"mint; defender; yielding to prayer"Description:
You may be tempted to scoff at Mint as another wacky celebrity baby name — it was used by Dutch model Romee Strijd for her daughter in 2020 — but it's a far more legitimate choice than many would guess. Minty baby names for girls are having a style moment in Nordic countries — Mynte is a Top 50 name in Denmark, and Minttu ranks in Finland's Top 50. It's ultimately not so surprising that a well-traveled international star would choose to use the English variation of these names for her daughter.
- Wildflower
Origin:
Nature and flower nameDescription:
Wildflower may be the ultimate hippie name, added to the lexicon by Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden when they chose it as one of their daughter's middle names. It's generic in the way that Flora and River are, as opposed to Iris and Nile, say. But it has a certain free and creative charm.
- Ice
Origin:
English word nameDescription:
Icy baby names are currently hot, with names like Icelynn and Iceland trending up for girls. Rapper Gucci Mane chose simple, streamlined Ice for his son 2020-born son, appropriately a winter baby. In 2021, it debuted on the charts for both boys and girls (9 boys, 6 girls).
- Lightning
Origin:
Nature nameDescription:
Olympic athlete Usain Bolt introduced this unusual and electric nature name to the lexicon when he chose it for his daughter's middle name: Olympia Lightning Bolt. Now there's a name with layers of meaning!
- Otter
Origin:
Animal nameDescription:
While we don't see many parents adopting Otter as a name for their own babies, Zooey Deschanel put this one in the lexicon when she used it as a middle name for her adorably-named daughter Elsie Otter. Even in the celebrisphere, Otter is one of the most unique baby names we've heard.
- Koala
Origin:
Animal nameMeaning:
"koala bear"Description:
The adorable animal name made its way into the baby name pool when Macklemore used it as the middle name for his daughter Colette in 2018.
- Mountain
Origin:
Nature nameDescription:
Mountain names such as Everest and Denali are being used more frequently, but Mountain itself was unknown until Hunger Games star Jena Malone used it as a middle name for her son Ode Mountain. And really, why not? It's one of the most unique baby names in the hot nature category.
- Rivers
Origin:
Nature name and surname, EnglishMeaning:
"rivers"Description:
Rivers is an indisputably unisex surname with is strong nature connotation and its connection to the character Diana Rivers from Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre. Rivers is also the first name of one of the girl Sweet Home sextuplets.