Surname Names for Baby Girls

Actress Gates McFadden proves this surname can work just as well for girls as boys. It joins an impressive lineup of celebrity babies with similar names, including Hillary Duff's Banks and Emma Roberts' Rhodes. Gates is also famously the surname of Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.

Parks is a rare member of the fashionable single-syllable, S-ending surname crowd, which includes trending choices like Brooks, Banks, Hayes and Wells.

Preppy surname, and most notably, a record player brand.

Mētra is the Latvian word for the mint plant and is seen as both a given name and a surname, although it is rare in both cases.

This common English surname originated as a patronymic for the son or daughter of a person named Jen, a medieval short form of John.

An unconventional route to the nickname Penny. Pennington debuted on the charts for girls in 2015.

A fresh take on the fashionable Audrey and Aubrey, or another novel surname name which seems fitting for either sex.

An English surname originally denoting someone living near a farmstead in the forest. Makes a sweet and unusual addition to the -ley name family.

A music hero surname that first entered the charts as a girl name in 2020. Frank Sinatra's surname comes from his Sicilian father: it is thought to have originated from a nickname for a senator or magistrate.

An old English surname denoting either a servant of one of the Knights Templar, or a person living near or serving at a church.

This spelling variation of the preppy surname Kipton leans feminine.

Obscure surname and Yorkshire and Lincolnshire place-name (where it's spelled Ferriby) makes a jaunty first. Placed in the public eye by Manhattan socialite Ferebee Bishop Taube.

Common Spanish surname, used by Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem as the middle name for their children Leo and Luna.

A German occupational surname deriving from the German word Bad, meaning "bath". Its most famous bearer in recent years has been (the notorious) RBG – former Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, making this a great feminist name or a nod to a lawyer in the family. Its simple, dynamic, er-ending sound fits right in with the likes of Harper, Piper and Saylor.

This preppy alternative to Gen Z favorite Summer has the potential to be a big surname hit for girls. It recently gained media attention from Instagram model Sumner Stroh.

Family surname or feminist statement name? Either way, this literary surname has a cool, current sound.

The gender-neutral name Raman, used throughout India, means pleasing and joyful or charming or beloved, according to various sources.

A Yoruba surname as well as a unisex given name.

In the same unisex placename/surname style as Oakley and Hadlee, this name makes total sense but has never been on the American charts. Rushlee Buchanan is a New Zealand Olympic cyclist.