Unique Word Names for Babies
- Defiance
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"resistance"Description:
Could be a modern virtue... or perhaps not for the parents!
- Rondeau
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"verse form"Description:
A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds, three stanzas and 13 lines.
- Penumbra
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"partial shade"
- Everglade
Origin:
English place nameMeaning:
"endless glade"
- Evensong
Origin:
English word nameMeaning:
"evening service, vespers"Description:
One of the newest spiritual word names.
- Sandur
Origin:
IcelandicMeaning:
"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.
- Fierce
Origin:
English word nameMeaning:
"untamed; proud"
- Parabola
Origin:
GreekMeaning:
"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".
- Drumlin
Origin:
IrishMeaning:
"little ridge"
- Wanderer
Origin:
English from GermanMeaning:
"one who roams"
- Vigor
Origin:
English from LatinMeaning:
"force, strength, liveliness"
- Marjoram
Origin:
botanical nameDescription:
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?
- Panacea
Origin:
GreekMeaning:
"a cure for all ills"
- Dynamo
Origin:
English word nameMeaning:
"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?
- Utopia
Origin:
Greek word nameMeaning:
"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.
- Daystar
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"a planet visible in the east just before sunrise; (poetic) the sun"
- Explorer
Origin:
Word nameDescription:
Explorer is one occupational name destined to seek and find greater things.
- Pinto
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"mottled"
- Boa
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"snake"
- Velleity
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"a wish not strong enough to lead to action"