Dog Names That Mean Calm

While several meanings are possible depending on the characters used, prosperity and peace are certainly lovely meanings for a name to have.

Best known in the US as the name of Chris Brown's son (they pronounce it like "echo"), but Aeko is a traditional Japanese name for baby girls.

Everyone will misunderstand it as Lara, but if you're willing to put up with the confusion, this is a truly different yet simple option.

A light and simple Māori name with an appealing O ending and lovely meaning.

Many parents these days are responding to names meaning peace, and this is one of the more unusual ones (more often heard as a surname). Pronounced PACH-ee-a, it relates to such other peaceful names as PAZ, PAX, and PAXICO

A lovely meaning and sound -- if you're fluent in Dutch.

Derived from an ancient Roman name, this is best known in its male form Placido, thanks to the tenor.

Properly spelt Bình in Vietnamese, this is a very popular name for both sexes. The pronunciation is usually Anglicized as "BIN", but the middle vowel is more like the U in "burn".

This name, used in both India and Nepal, is one of those lovely boys names that opts for quiet strength over hypermasculine energy. Bollywood cinematographer Nirav Shah is a notable bearer of this name.

Bouncy South African girl name whose sound doesn't quite match its meaning.

Mirko is a diminutive version of Miroslav but is now given as a full name.

This Croatian name is the diminutive of Mira and Mirela.

An is a gender-neutral Chinese name, originally a surname, that can be used for girls or boys and means peace or quiet. It is also a Vietnamese name meaning safe and secure. In the English-speaking world, it may feel slight due to its equivalence to the article an.

Rongo is a masculine Maori name stemming from both the name of a god and also the Maori word for peace, "rangimarie", which itself is occasionally used as a feminine name. Rongo was the name of the Maori god of cultivated food and of peace. In Maori culture the two ideas are closely linked - food can only be cultivated and plentiful when communities are at peace and working together. If Ringo, Rango and Rocco can get a look in, why not Rongo?

Calming Japanese choice.

A unisex name with a lovely serene meaning in the Ambaric language of Ethiopia.

Mandara is one of those names that sounds like its meaning -- and calm is certainly a quality worth courting in a child.

A unisex name with a lovely serene meaning in the Ambaric language of Ethiopia.

Disproportionately common among the American Amish.