Nature Names

Flowers, trees, weather, stones and creatures. The oldest layer is Victorian and almost entirely floral; the current one is broader and much less tidy.

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114 names, most popular first in the United States

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Olivia Olivia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "olive tree," used as the feminine form of Oliver.
Girl Latin #1 in US
Violet Violet is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "purple," taken from viola, the Latin word for the purple flower.
Girl Latin #13 in US
Aurora Aurora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn."
Girl Latin #15 in US
Lily Lily is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily flower," from lilium.
Girl Latin #18 in US
Hazel Hazel is a girl's name of English origin naming the hazel tree, from the Old English hæsel.
Girl English #21 in US
Chloe Chloe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "green shoot" or "young growth," referring to the first green of new crops.
Girl Greek #23 in US
Isla Isla is a girl's name of Scottish origin, taken from Islay, an island in the Inner Hebrides, and from the River Isla in the Scottish mainland.
Girl Scottish #28 in US
Ivy Ivy is a girl's name of English origin naming the climbing evergreen plant, from the Old English ifig.
Girl English #39 in US
Dylan Dylan is a boy's name of Welsh origin meaning "great tide" or "sea," from the elements dy and llanw.
Boy Welsh #41 in US
Willow Willow is a girl's name of English origin naming the tree, from the Old English welig.
Girl English #44 in US
Rowan Rowan is a name with two origins. The Irish line comes from Ó Ruadháin, from ruadh meaning red, giving "little red-haired one."
Unisex Irish #59 in US
Leilani Leilani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "heavenly flowers" or "royal child," from lei, a garland or wreath of flowers, and lani, meaning sky, heaven, or royalty.
Girl Hawaiian #60 in US
Brooks Brooks is a boy's name of English origin meaning "of the brook" or "dweller by the stream," from the Old English broc. It began as a surname identifying a family by the water they lived beside.
Boy English #64 in US
Eden Eden is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "delight" or "pleasure," from the garden of Genesis.
Unisex Hebrew #70 in US
Daisy Daisy is a girl's name of English origin naming the flower, and its meaning is unusually literal: daisy comes from the Old English dægesege, "day's eye," because the flower opens its petals at dawn and closes them at dusk.
Girl English #75 in US
Autumn Autumn is a girl's name taken from the English word for the season, which comes through French from the Latin autumnus.
Girl Latin #88 in US
Everly Everly is a girl's name of English origin, from a place name meaning "boar meadow" — the Old English eofor, a wild boar, and leah, a clearing.
Girl English #91 in US
Juniper Juniper is a girl's name naming the evergreen shrub, from the Latin juniperus.
Girl Latin #100 in US
River River is a name taken from the English word, which comes through Anglo-Norman from the Latin riparius, meaning "of the riverbank."
Unisex English #111 in US
Savannah Savannah is a girl's name of Taino origin meaning "treeless plain."
Girl Taino #135 in US
Summer Summer is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the season, from sumor.
Girl English #152 in US
Oaklynn Oaklynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, combining the tree name Oak with the -lynn ending.
Girl 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.
Girl English #154 in US
Oakley Oakley is a name of Old English origin meaning "oak clearing" or "oak meadow."
Unisex English #156 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.
Girl Modern coinage #158 in US
Sage Sage is a name of Latin origin meaning "wise."
Unisex Latin #160 in US
Alani Alani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "orange tree."
Girl Hawaiian #161 in US
Kaylani Kaylani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, generally read as "the heavens" or "heavenly one."
Girl Hawaiian #185 in US
Haven Haven is a name of Old English origin meaning "harbor" or "place of safety."
Unisex English #190 in US
Olive Olive is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the tree, whose name comes from oliva.
Girl Latin #197 in US
Jasmine Jasmine is a girl's name of Persian origin taken from the flower, whose name comes from yasmin.
Girl Persian #206 in US
Wren Wren is a name of Old English origin taken from the bird, from wrenna.
Unisex English #231 in US
Ronan Ronan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little seal," from the Irish rón.
Boy Irish #247 in US
Lilly Lilly is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, from lilium.
Girl Latin #252 in US
Koa Koa is a boy's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "warrior" or "brave."
Boy Hawaiian #269 in US
Rosie Rosie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
Girl Latin #283 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.
Girl English #286 in US
Poppy Poppy is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, whose name comes from the Latin papaver.
Girl English #292 in US
Sylvia Sylvia is a girl's name from the Latin for a forest, and the mother of Rome's founders bore it — Rhea Silvia, who was made a Vestal Virgin so she could not produce heirs.
Girl Latin #300 in US
Brooke Brooke is a girl's name from the English word for a small stream.
Girl English #313 in US
Forrest Forrest is one of only two names in this group birth records mark as rising, and it is on its second life — American births ran 490 in 2018 and 862 in 2025, having collapsed from a 1994 peak twenty years before.
Boy English #374 in US
Jay Jay is a name serving as an initial-letter shortening for any J name, as a bird name, and as an Indian name meaning victory.
Boy English #392 in US
Raven Raven means the bird, and the bird was a war omen before it was a goth accessory — Norse and Anglo-Saxon poetry lists the raven with the wolf and the eagle as the beasts that follow an army.
Girl English #404 in US
Holly Holly is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the tree, from holegn.
Girl English #416 in US
Kataleya Kataleya is a girl's name, a phonetic spelling of Cataleya, from the Cattleya orchid.
Girl English, Spanish #459 in US
Saige Saige is a girl's name, also used for some boys, and it's a modern spelling of Sage.
Girl Latin, English #480 in US
Makai Makai is a boy's name with more than one reading. In Hawaiian it means "toward the sea," and it's a word for direction.
Boy Hawaiian, Hebrew #481 in US
Corbin Corbin means little raven, and it began as a description of hair — Norman bynames used black birds for black-haired people, which is the same logic behind the Irish names built on the word for dark.
Boy French #512 in US

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