It’s good to keep in mind that what may be “edgy” and “exotic” to some is equally classic or vintage to others. Here in Arizona, with a large Mexican population, Francisco is extremely common…I’ve met many middle aged men with the name!😊
We just named our daughter Lorelai Clare with Clare being from County Clare in Ireland because we got married there on the Cliffs of Moher! We also plan on using Cobh (but spelled Cove since we live in the US) after the coastal town in Ireland for a middle name in the future!
Hey! I’m from county Galway. So a neighbour to county Clare! Cobh (cove) sounds beautiful! Ennis, is another town in county Clare and I think it sounds beautiful for a little girl :)
I like Iona for a girl. It’s a gorgeous Scottish island where I went on a spiritual/religious retreat there in the early 2000’s during my final year at uni, just before my last exams.
I love Avalon! Me and my partner considered it for our daughter as a very special place for us is Glastonbury which is known in folklore as the Isle of Avalon. I also like Denver for a boy. I've never been but love John Denver!
My babies have location names. My son's name is Caspian and I'm currently pregnant with a baby girl who will be named Sienna. I LOVE Capri but my hubby said "I'm not naming my child after 2000s pants" lmao
My best friend has a sweet baby boy named Hudson! ❤️ I’m partial to Eden (I love it for a girl). It’s definitely on my name list for the future! I love the idea of a biblical name, but many of them are either hard to pronounce, or are too popular for my liking. So I love that Eden is the best of both worlds. And I’m not sure how I feel about Jericho… but my husband loves it for a boy! Also a biblical one!
Zealand is actually a province in the Netherlands, spelled Zeeland here, pronounced Zay-land, and New Zealand was named after the Dutch one… hard to think of it as a name as a Dutchie XD Loved some of the names on this list!
I was surprised to not see my daughters name on here actually! I have a baby girl called Alaska. Obsessed with it and Hudson is our boy name we chose as well :) fingers crossed for the next baby haha
Daughters name is Holland Rosalayne (Rosa-Lane). Holland, MI is where my husband and I had our first date♥️ middle name is after family. Would love some ideas you may have for a second baby! Currently trying to convince. I’ve been a big fan of yours for years 🥰 Praying for Naomi.
I love your videos and thought for sure that if any, this is the one my name (Montana) would have made it into!! Oh well haha I absolutely love my name and all the nicknames for it! I also get complemented on it all the time, so others seem to like it too 😊 I love Holland and Emerald is also a town in Australia!
my daughter’s name is Capri and i’m truly obsessed. it was my number one girl name for years and years before I had my daughter because I was just enamored with Capri and the Amalfi Coast.
As a dutch person; Holland is not a city, it's a province (actually two, since It's North and South Holland). Similarly Zealand (Zeeland) is also a dutch province. New Zealand was named after our Zeeland.
Holland, Oslo, Jericho, Salem, Topanga, Fairfax, Verona and Orlando are my favorites from this weeks list ❤ my name is Jordan which is also a place name and I always wanted my daughters and I to share that link. Where as with the boys I want them to have the hebrew connection like my name is :) love it. Loving Salem the most because its hebrew and a place name which connects my son and I to a future girl. Super into this place name trend.
I named my daughter Azore after the Azores. Pronounced a little bit differently in Dutch as it would in English but still so pretty for an English babe ♥️
@@oddmnemosyne2869 I assume that by Eastrn Europe you mean Slavic countries and it’s definetely not unisex, it’s exclusively feminine here, there are just very few names that are unisex actually
Lovely list. Keyes & keota! Omg! Verden & noble! Holy cow just one state has so many. Ravia & Okeene? Never heard of these. Preggo and need help. Thank u.
Fairly certain Bah-lee is correct 😅 Only because here in Australia it’s a super popular holiday destination and that’s how the Indonesian people pronounce it
I taught a little girl in Sydney, Australia, whose name was Hana as her parents went to Hawaii for their honeymoon. I would have called a daughter, Diani after a stunning beach in Kenya, Africa. I spent time there in my 20s.
My son's name is Santiago Orlando, and we call him Santi. Santiago is named after Chile's capital since his father is Chilean. However, I never thought about the fact that Orlando is actually a place. But I guess we have two named after places then :)
So I’m not pregnant and many of you are not in the USA, so feel free to use this because our kids won’t be in the same class, but my favorite place name is Sonora (like the state in Mexico and the desert in the USA)! I might just use it since I live in that desert now, but I’m willing to share 😅
Our daughter ( Madi, who can’t stand her given name of Madison) wanted something truly unique. So for our granddaughter (our first grandbaby 💕), she & her husband chose the name Texas Victory. My daughter has always had a deep & abiding love for our st…the history, culture & her heritage so it made total sense!! …. And yes, they have a horse ranch & she barrel races/ropes!! We adore our little Texi girl!!❤️ Love your videos!! So wish I could be a baby named by profession!!🥰
Was set on Jericho Skyy for 2 seconds. My partner cuts her eye at me.. and said 💁🏽 absolutely not You took the scenic route with this one 🧡 beautiful list
Thank you for all of your creative ideas and inspirations for baby names! I am definitely stuck on our baby name journey. Would you consider doing a list of Mediterranean boy names ending in n?
My daughter is Adelaide, love place names on my list is Cuba, Peru, Pensford, Mendip, Auckland, colorado, Austin, dallas, Darwin, Brighton, Apollo, mooloolah (mooloulah), Brecon, Rome, Rhodes, Oakland,
I would go with Powell after the beautiful Powell Valley we have lived, loved and raised our children in it's also the name of the river than runs through the valley. I also love Cumberland which is after the beautiful gap at then end of our state in the US where you can see into 3 states at once in the Cumberland Gap. I have always loved the name Avalon and was hoping it would be a part of the list and I was right 😊.
Holland and Olympia are my favorite girls. Love Oslo or Denver for a boy. Also, like Delphi, and Salem. Also add Nevada, Arizona, Alaska. I like Wylie for a boy but its a city close to me so it feels too close.
Help! Baby due any day and I want to honour someone named Louise. Surname Murphy 😅 My choices: Beatrice Louisa Eloise Beatrice Maeve Eloise Mabel Eloise Grace Eloise
I love Holland and Geneva - esp the meaning of Juniper tree! I really love Amalfi though and it reminded me straight away of Delphi too which I also love, and Olympia! Fairfax and Zuma are kinda cool too!! I do like Aspen but just a little too popular! Jericho - A BNE classic! As cool as I want Topanga to be I don't know could pull it off - although could be an awesome middle?! I love Avalon and Eden is my absolute fave at the moment but especially for a boy for me! Bohemia ... hmm do kinda want to love it! I have been to Emerald City in North Carolina! I love Valley & Horizon too, and also Elysienne which you have mentioned before! And Esperance - a place in Australia. I also love Adelaide, Airlie and Raleigh & Denver. My Kid's French teacher calls the Spider in Incy Wincy Gypsy. I am not sure if it is spelt exactly the same (maybe Gipsie? But deffo pronounced the same) and also not sure if that is the official French version or not! I also knew a pony with that name in the 90s!
A girl name I really like but sadly won't be using is Morven, after the street I grew up on, Morven [Street] (Street isn't the actual end of the street, but saying what it actually is would narrow down where I live and I don't want that public on the internet lol)
Oslo is pronounced oo-sluh and only o-slow by people who think it’s pronounced the way it looks though :p but it works as a name! Even if it reminds me of Onslow, Hyacinth Bouquet-not-Bucket’s brother-in-law (her sister Daisy) and there’s Rose and Violet (which is too close to violent for me but nice otherwise) but I don’t mind him so it’s fine heh
I don’t have or want babies - but if I did and had a boy, I’d call them Oxford - what a bloody cool name! Please - pregnant women….someone has to call their baby Oxford! 😅x
I was born in the state of Arkansas in the USA. So was my mother and my daughter. So were all 3 of my brothers. The only immediate blood relative that I have who was not born in Arkansas is my father. He was born in Santa Monica, California, so he named me Monica.
India has been a favorite of mine for years :) I recently had a close family member use my #1 name, Margot. I loved it with the nn Rory as well, as I’m not a fan of Aurora or Lorelei (the more classic full names for Rory). Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Would you not go with India? It’s so lush I love it 🥰 Would you like soemthing vintage still like Dorothy or Dorothea could be a Rory? Everyone add ideas here ⬇️ xxx
I know an India. What a fantastic name! I think you could justify most names with an O-R being nicknamed Rory 🤔... Gloria, Coralie, Georgia? (Speaking of place names 😄)
We use the name, Pacifica in the middle spot for one of our daughters. We live in California and did a coastal road trip for our honeymoon. I don’t know about Zealand. It doesn’t exactly sound like a name to me. I’m not that brave in her name or though. I know a little Avalon, and it makes me so happy! I love Santiago, Francisco, and Geneva!
G****** is an ethnic slur- while Romani people are welcome to reclaim it, I would absolutely never use it as a name. Aside from that this was a lovely list. I have a friend who used Francisco for her youngest's middle, so cool to see it here. I live in a Salem so it's not really used locally but I've definitely noticed it on the rise elsewhere. Olympia and Emerald have been on and off my list for years! I actually went to school with an Emerald, her and her sisters all had gem names. Some I would add: Corvallis Foxford Ithaca Lyon Odessa Penrose Raleigh Sherwood Thessaly Valencia
I’ve never ever thought of it in terms of place names, but Florence was my girls name (don’t have a girl so didn’t get to use it) and I have an Isaac (like port Isaac 😅). I also have a Finn like you which isn’t a place but because it makes me think of the sea
Ah straight away I knew the answer to this! I have 2 girls and I really wanted to call the second one Devon. It’s a really special place for my family growing up and has become our special place with my Husband and children. Husband vito’d it at the time but that would have been my choice. Would have had Lola and Devon but ended up with Lola and Faye instead 😊 Hope Naomi is doing well. I’ve been thinking of you all xxx
Beautiful names 😊 my mum is called Faye and I have Faye as my middle name. I also have a cousin who's daughter is Lola. They've just had a son who they've named Oscar which I think is the cutest when both names are said together ❤️
My dad named me after the Eric Clapton song and I’ve always loved listening to it, now I have a daughter named Vaeda like the girl from the film My girl and my husband always sings her the song…..
One of my son’s middle names is Matlock after the English town, which we chose for both sentimental and meaning reasons. I also considered Emmett for the town in Idaho where my mom grew up.
My first name is Venice. I was named after a relative, but I’m not sure where her name was from. Either way, I’ve gotten a lot of compliments for it growing up and think it’d be nice to see more around :) love your videos!
