Modern Names

Names that did not exist, or barely existed, before the twentieth century. Many are respellings, surnames or coinages, and their histories are shorter and better documented than anything older.

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21,117 names, most popular first in United States

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Brielle Brielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength."
Hebrew #143 in US
Kehlani Kehlani is a girl's name of disputed meaning.
Modern coinage #149 in US
Summer Summer is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the season, from sumor.
English #152 in US
Oaklynn Oaklynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, combining the tree name Oak with the -lynn ending.
Modern coinage #153 in US
Ember Ember is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the word for a glowing coal, from æmyrge.
English #154 in US
Piper Piper is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "pipe player."
English #155 in US
Phoebe Phoebe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bright" or "radiant."
Greek #157 in US
Wrenley Wrenley is a girl's name of recent American coinage, formed by joining the bird name Wren to the -ley ending common in English surnames.
Modern coinage #158 in US
Arya Arya is a name of Sanskrit origin meaning "noble."
Sanskrit #159 in US
Alani Alani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "orange tree."
Hawaiian #161 in US
Nevaeh Nevaeh is a girl's name coined in the United States, and it is "heaven" spelled backwards.
American coinage #165 in US
Ailani Ailani is a girl's name generally presented as Hawaiian, meaning "high chief" or "chief of the heavens," from ali'i, chief, and lani, sky or heaven.
Hawaiian #168 in US
Ariella Ariella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lion of God."
Hebrew #174 in US
Freya Freya is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "lady" or "noble woman."
Norse #177 in US
Lilah Lilah is a girl's name with two possible origins: the Hebrew laylah, meaning "night," or a short form of Delilah, whose meaning is "delicate" or "languishing."
Hebrew #179 in US
Amaya Amaya is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
Basque #180 in US
Ximena Ximena is a girl's name of Spanish origin whose meaning is unresolved.
Spanish #183 in US
Adalynn Adalynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, formed from the Germanic element adal, meaning noble, with the -lynn suffix.
Germanic #184 in US
Kaylani Kaylani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, generally read as "the heavens" or "heavenly one."
Hawaiian #185 in US
Blakely Blakely is a name of Old English origin meaning either "black clearing" or "pale clearing."
English #191 in US
Everleigh Everleigh is a girl's name of modern American coinage, formed by respelling the English surname Everly.
English #194 in US
Alora Alora is a girl's name of modern coinage with no settled origin.
Disputed #195 in US
Kylie Kylie is a girl's name usually said to mean "boomerang" in an Australian Aboriginal language.
Disputed #204 in US
Myla Myla is a girl's name whose origin is unsettled.
Disputed #210 in US
Aitana Aitana is a girl's name taken from a mountain range in Alicante, and it was effectively created by one poet — Rafael Alberti named his daughter after the Sierra de Aitana in 1941.
Spanish #211 in US
Zara Zara is a girl's name with more than one origin. It is read as "radiance" or "blossom" from the Arabic zahrah, and as a form of Sarah, meaning "princess," from Hebrew — and both readings are in active use.
Arabic #212 in US
Selah Selah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is genuinely unknown.
Hebrew #216 in US
Saylor Saylor is a girl's name with two separate origins that have converged. As an American surname it usually comes from the German Seiler, a ropemaker, and it is also read as a respelling of the English word sailor.
German #217 in US
Elianna Elianna is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God has answered".
Hebrew #218 in US
Brianna Brianna is a girl's name, the feminine of Brian, whose Irish meaning has never been securely established.
Irish #222 in US
Kiara Kiara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear."
Latin #229 in US
Maisie Maisie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
Greek #233 in US
Nyla Nyla is a girl's name with more than one plausible origin.
Arabic #236 in US
Cataleya Cataleya is a girl's name taken from the cattleya orchid, and its use is traceable to a single film.
Modern coinage #239 in US
Brynlee Brynlee is a girl's name of modern American coinage, combining the Welsh bryn, meaning hill, with the -lee ending from the Old English leah, a clearing.
Modern coinage #243 in US
Amora Amora is a girl's name built from the Latin amor, love.
Latin #247 in US
Kailani Kailani is a girl's name built from genuine Hawaiian words, kai meaning sea and lani meaning sky or heaven.
Hawaiian #253 in US
Journee Journee is a girl's name taken from the English word journey, respelled to look like the French journée.
English #258 in US
Leila Leila means night, from Arabic, and it is one of the most evenly spread names on this site — France 211th, the United States 259th, England and Wales 269th, Scotland 282nd and Ireland 339th, a spread of just 128 places.
Arabic #259 in US
Adalyn Adalyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
Germanic #260 in US
Aliyah Aliyah is a girl's name of Hebrew and Arabic origin meaning "ascent" or "exalted," and the two languages arrived at it separately from cognate roots.
Hebrew #263 in US
Elaina Elaina is a girl's name of Greek origin, a variant of Helen.
Greek #267 in US
Arleth Arleth is a girl's name used almost exclusively in Mexico and among Mexican-American families.
Norman French #269 in US
Nayeli Nayeli is a girl's name used widely in Mexico and among Mexican-American families, usually given as Zapotec for "I love you".
Zapotec #270 in US
Evie Evie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life."
Hebrew #271 in US
Khloe Khloe means green shoot, and the K is doing no work etymologically — it respells Chloe, whose Greek khloe names the first growth of a crop rather than a color or a plant.
American #272 in US
Lilith Lilith is a girl's name of Mesopotamian origin, from a class of night spirits called lilitu in Akkadian.
Akkadian #277 in US
Meadow Meadow is a girl's name from the English word for grassland, whose root means "to mow" — so a meadow is defined by being cut.
English #286 in US

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