Unique Word Names for Babies

  1. Defiance
    • Origin:

      French
    • Meaning:

      "resistance"
    • Description:

      Could be a modern virtue... or perhaps not for the parents!
  2. Rondeau
    • Origin:

      French
    • Meaning:

      "verse form"
    • Description:

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

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "partial shade"
  4. Everglade
    • Origin:

      English place name
    • Meaning:

      "endless glade"
  5. Evensong
    • Origin:

      English word name
    • Meaning:

      "evening service, vespers"
    • Description:

      One of the newest spiritual word names.
  6. 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.
  7. Fierce
    • Origin:

      English word name
    • Meaning:

      "untamed; proud"
  8. 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".
  9. Drumlin
    • Origin:

      Irish
    • Meaning:

      "little ridge"
  10. Wanderer
    • Origin:

      English from German
    • Meaning:

      "one who roams"
  11. Vigor
    • Origin:

      English from Latin
    • Meaning:

      "force, strength, liveliness"
  12. Marjoram
    • Origin:

      botanical name
    • Description:

      Marjoram is a herb and flower. With nicknames like Margie and Jo at the ready, we think that if Marigold can make a comeback, why not Marjoram?
  13. Panacea
    • Origin:

      Greek
    • Meaning:

      "a cure for all ills"
  14. 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?
  15. 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.
  16. Daystar
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

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

      Word name
    • Description:

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

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "mottled"
  19. Boa
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "snake"
  20. Velleity
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "a wish not strong enough to lead to action"