6000+ Dog Names

Repetitive Japanese name with a flittering meaning.

Mordechai and Mordecai are equally valid — both are used as transcriptions from the Hebrew bible, and one did not originate before the other. But although popular culture tends to prefer the (slightly simpler) Mordecai, Mordechai has always been the more common version for babies born in the US.

In the 21st century, Exa is best known as the given name of Grimes and Elon Musk's daughter Y, a sibling for X Æ A-XII. The celebrity parents were inspired by the supercomputer terms exaFLOPS, which is the "ability for a supercomputer to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second."

Truly a cross-cultural name, with usage in Germany, Scandinavia, India, France, and Iceland.

Attractive Spanish name heard in the movie Spanglish. Roll that final r. Or say it the French way: Fleur.

This could be a fresh way to honor an ancestral Walter.

Portuguese variation of Matthew.

Friendly but flimsy.

Snowy has only ever appeared on the charts twice: in 2013, when it was given to 6 baby girls, and in 2016, when it was used for five. With recent celeb choices such as Stormi and Thunder, could Snowy be next on parents' lists?

Haylee dropped out of the Top 500 for the first time since 1992 recently, in step with a decline by Hailey (though the alternative Hadley is still near the Top 100). For some, Haylee is one E too many, but it reflects the broader popularity in -lee suffixes.

It has a variety of associations from Smokey Robinson to Smokey the bear, but Smokey still feels a bit comical for a baby.

A strong modern word name with both spiritual and secular significance.

This would make an interesting South American heritage choice. One famous bearer was Quispe Sisa, an Inca princess in the 16th century. It is also a surname.

Neo, indeed--though it was a male character in "The Matrix."

We can think of two drawbacks to this name: the slightly feminine el ending, and the resemblance to the delicate dumpling called a quenelle.

The name of a character in the once scandalous novel Valley of the Dolls now sounds a little more dated than the similar Arden.

Has too many slangy connotations to be considered.