This name has many different connotations, from Tarot cards to a species of butterfly. It is related to the English word arcane, which means esoteric, mysterious, enigmatic. 

Arcana

Alwara

Anemosie

Like its single "n" sister name (Braelyn), Braelynn is currently enjoying its highest level of popularity. Unlike Braylin and Braylyn, the ‘ae’ of Braelynn gives the name a Scottish look, making it seem slightly less creative and more sturdy

Braelynn

Brayden meets Jalen to make Braylen, another entry in this trendy group of names.

While Braylen is drifting downward now, it's ranked among the Top 1000 boy names in the US for two decades and is sure to stay there for perhaps two more. Over 500 baby boys were named Braylen last year, and 40 baby girls, so while theoretically unisex, it's not really. 

You'll find as many meanings for Braylen online as you'll find name sites, from broad valley to lion strength to gift of God to salmon, but Braylen is an invented name and has no meaning beyond being a combination of fashionable sounds.

Braylen

Blueanne

Caden is a key member of the rhyming contingent that includes Aiden, Jayden, Kayden, Brayden et al. It may derive from the Celtic Cadan or Irish Cathán, both from the same root meaning "battle".

While Caden in this spelling achieves the golden mean of being familiar but not overly popular, ranking consistently in the middle of the Top 1000, there are so many similar names in widespread use that you're sure to hear it more than you might think.

Considering all the spellings together, Caden (and Kayden and Kaiden and Cayden) ranks Number 13 in the US, according to our Playground Analysis.

Caden

Although this name literally means disaster, the use of Calamity as a descriptor of Martha Jane Cannery, aka Calamity Jane, was meant to signal that she was a good person to have in troubled times. Calamity Jane was well regarded as a frontierswoman and nurse, someone who was said to be extremely generous and compassionate to the sick and troubled.. Calamity's connection to the American West gives this a roguish name a sort of windswept charm about it. Indeed, the most controversial aspect of this name is its connection to the frontier wars that led to the dispossession of Native American peoples. 
Controversy aside, you really don't want to name your daughter Calamity. There are plenty of other uncommon <a href="https://nameberry.com/search/girls-names/c">girl names starting with C</a> that don't sound like jokes.

Calamity

Cason's entire raison d'etre: It's a rhyming variation on the popular Jason, Mason and Brayson. Casen, Kasen and Kason also have crept into the Top 1000 in recent years.

Cason

Castity

Cles

Elaboration of Dion publicized by the football and baseball star Deion Sanders -- aka Neon Deion. 

Deion

Novelist Djuna Barnes introduced this interesting and unusual name with an arty, Bohemian feel to the mix. She explained that it was invented by her father, saying it came about as a combination of her infant brother's pronunciation of the word moon as 'nuna' and a character in a book her father was reading, Prince Djalma, and so he "put the Dj onto the 'una'." Result: the silent-D pronunciation (as in Django) of JOON-a.
 Fellow writer Anais Nin adopted the name for a character in her 1950 novel The Four Chambered Heart, and Woody Allen had a young girl called Djuna in his 1996 film Everyone Says I Love You — nicknamed DJ.
 All in an, an attractive and intriguing possibility.

Djuna

Daylalynn

Dracarys

Ijana

Isamora

Jamia

Jax is the Dex-Jex-Pax type of x-ending cool -- possibly too cool -- variation of Jack or nickname for Jaxon or Jackson.
 Jax was a soap opera character name way back when; most recently he's been seen as Jackson "Jax" Teller, the central character on Sons of Anarchy, the national president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club.

More popular than the Jalen spelling. Like other names with many variants, when you count up all the alternatives, the name is much more popular than it first appears. 

Jaylen

Jovie has a lively and cheerful sound and makes a fresh twist on old (and new) favorites like Jody, Josie, and Jolie. It could be considered a short form of Jovita, Jovena, and Jovana - all feminine forms of Jove, the Roman king of gods - but it could equally work as a stand alone name.
 
Associated with the word "jovial" and therefore with joy and cheer, Jovie was used in the popular Christmas movie, Elf , in which actress Zooey Deschanel played the lead female role. This lends the name a touch of holiday spirit and it could work well for a December baby.
 
Merriness and joy are year round possibilities however, and others may link the name to the band Bon Jovi. It also fits in well with nickname-y choices like Millie and Rosie and with cool, trending choices, like Nova, Navy, and Oakley. 
 
Jovie first appeared in the US stats in 2004, following the release of Elf in 2003, and it has been climbing ever since. As of 2023, it is given to more than 500 babies each year and ranks in the US Top 600. If you are looking for a cute, friendly, but not overly popular name, Jovie may be just the ticket.

Jovie

Jicky

Kaivelia

Kiarae

Built from the popular La- prefix and Toya, possibly from Victoria, this is one of the best known and historically most popular La-starting names. A famous bearer is La Toya Jackson, a singer, actress and businesswoman and sister of Michael Jackson. It was a Top 100 name from 1981 to 1985, then fell off the list in 1995.

Latoya

Lychee

Mumin

Looks very much like it lost its first initial.

Tacy

Tesfaye

Tourette

Twilisha

undefined's list "Modern and Invented Baby Names" of 32 great name ideas: Arcana - Twilisha!

Modern and Invented Baby Names

Now that many parents try to find more and more unique names for their children they often even invent new ones that usually don't have a meaning. But they are indeed modern and unique. 