Unique Word Names for Babies

  1. Sandur
    • Origin:

      Icelandic
    • Meaning:

      "sand"
    • Description:

      Also called an outwash plain, a sandur is a plain formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the edge of a glacier.
  2. Wanderer
    • Origin:

      English from German
    • Meaning:

      "one who roams"
  3. Vigor
    • Origin:

      English from Latin
    • Meaning:

      "force, strength, liveliness"
  4. Fierce
    • Origin:

      English word name
    • Meaning:

      "untamed; proud"
  5. Explorer
    • Origin:

      Word name
    • Description:

      Explorer is one occupational name destined to seek and find greater things.
  6. Redeem
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "buy back"
    • Description:

      A modern virtue name which believes in second chances.
  7. Drumlin
    • Origin:

      Irish
    • Meaning:

      "little ridge"
  8. Everglade
    • Origin:

      English place name
    • Meaning:

      "endless glade"
  9. Evensong
    • Origin:

      English word name
    • Meaning:

      "evening service, vespers"
    • Description:

      One of the newest spiritual word names.
  10. Penumbra
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "partial shade"
  11. Utopia
    • Origin:

      Greek word name
    • Meaning:

      "imagined place of perfection"
    • Description:

      A utopia is the concept of a perfect society — a lot to live up to as a baby name! Despite that, Utopia was used for a string of years in the late '70s and early '80s. However, it has never been given to more than eight baby girls in a single year.
  12. Rondeau
    • Origin:

      French
    • Meaning:

      "verse form"
    • Description:

      A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds, three stanzas and 13 lines.
  13. Dynamo
    • Origin:

      English word name
    • Meaning:

      "a forceful energetic individual"
    • Description:

      Dynamo is a newly-invented word name that's on trend in several different ways. It's got an o ending, an uplifting meaning, and it's gender-neutral. And what kid wouldn't want Dynamo as a middle name?
  14. Savage
    • Origin:

      English, Irish, or Jewish surname
    • Meaning:

      "wild, untamed; grandfather"
    • Description:

      It doesn't matter if Savage is a surname on your family tree — it's a highly controversial choice for a first name with connections to racism and colonialism. Despite this, over a dozen sets of parents named their sons Savage in a recent year.
  15. Daystar
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "a planet visible in the east just before sunrise; (poetic) the sun"
  16. Panacea
    • Origin:

      Greek
    • Meaning:

      "a cure for all ills"
  17. Parabola
    • Origin:

      Greek
    • Meaning:

      "curve"
    • Description:

      In mathematics, a parabola is a plane curve which is mirror-symmetrical and approximately U-shaped. Its name derives from a Greek word meaning "I place side by side".
  18. Pinto
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "mottled"
  19. Celsian
    • Origin:

      Mineral name
    • Meaning:

      "feldspar"
  20. Boa
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "snake"