Nature Names 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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98 names, most popular first in United States

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Rio Rio is a name of Spanish and Portuguese origin meaning "river."
Unisex Spanish #532 in US
Clay Clay means the earth a potter works, and it carries a creation story in almost every tradition — Genesis forms Adam from the ground, and Mesopotamian and Egyptian accounts do the same with clay.
Boy English #573 in US
Flora Flora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "flower," the Roman goddess whose festival was among the least decorous in the calendar.
Girl Latin #607 in US
Sierra Sierra means a mountain range, and the Spanish word is literally a saw — ranges were named for the jagged sawtooth profile they cut against the sky.
Girl Spanish #614 in US
Rosa Rosa is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
Girl Latin #652 in US
Alara Alara is a girl's name from Turkic mythology, where she is a water fairy.
Girl Turkish #653 in US
Melina Melina means honey, and the Greek word behind it is one of the oldest recoverable in Europe — meli is attested in Mycenaean Greek and its relatives run from Hittite to English mildew.
Girl Greek #660 in US
Lillie Lillie is a girl's name from the flower, which has stood for purity in Christian art for so long that the association predates the name.
Girl English #676 in US
Alondra Alondra means lark, and a Roman legion was named for the bird — Caesar raised the Legio V Alaudae in Gaul and it took the lark's name, probably from crested plumes on the helmets.
Girl Spanish #681 in US
Robin Robin is a name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Unisex Germanic #704 in US
Laurel Laurel names the plant directly, which sets it apart from Lora and Loren on this site — those reach the laurel through a Roman town, while this one is simply the tree.
Girl English #735 in US
Paloma Paloma is a girl's name from the Spanish word for a dove.
Girl Spanish #793 in US
Brock Brock means badger, and it is one of the oldest animal words in English — a Celtic borrowing that entered Old English before the Norman Conquest and survives in dialect to this day.
Boy English #813 in US
Honey Honey is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the word itself, from hunig.
Girl English #847 in US
Lilia Lilia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily," and it is also a separate Arabic and Slavic name that the spelling merges.
Girl Latin #860 in US
Violette Violette is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "violet," and in France it belongs to an agent executed at Ravensbrück at twenty-three.
Girl French #894 in US
Fern Fern seed was believed to make you invisible, and Shakespeare has a character say so — ferns produce spores rather than visible seeds, so the seed itself was thought to be unseeable.
Girl English #1,221 in US
Alba Alba is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn" or "white."
Girl Latin #1,262 in US
Heather Heather is a girl's name taken directly from the flowering shrub that covers Scottish and northern English moorland.
Girl English #1,264 in US
Maeva Maeva is a girl's name of Tahitian origin meaning "welcome."
Girl Tahitian #1,399 in US
Jasmin Jasmin names a flower whose own name is Persian, and it traveled the length of Eurasia — yasmin passed through Arabic into Europe with the plant itself, arriving as a word and a cutting together.
Girl German #1,408 in US
Dale Dale is a name from the Old English word for a valley, and like Craig and Heather it is a plain landscape noun rather than a compound.
Boy English #1,409 in US
Robyn Robyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Girl Germanic #1,439 in US
Glenn Glenn is a boy's name from the Gaelic word for a narrow valley, and like Craig and Dale it is a plain landscape noun.
Boy Scottish Gaelic #1,446 in US
Craig Craig is a boy's name from the Gaelic word for a rock or crag, and one of the few names that is a plain landscape noun rather than a compound.
Boy Scottish Gaelic #1,653 in US
Fiadh Fiadh is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "wild" or "deer," from the Irish fia.
Girl Irish #1,993 in US
Glen Glen means a narrow valley, and it is one of very few Gaelic words that English borrowed wholesale rather than adapting to its own sounds.
Boy Scottish #2,033 in US
Marin Marin is a unisex name of Latin origin meaning "of the sea," from the Roman Marinus.
Unisex French #2,043 in US
Dawn Dawn is a girl's name taken directly from the English word for daybreak, and it is the English counterpart of Aurora rather than a translation of it.
Girl English #2,193 in US
Sylvester Sylvester means of the woods, and a pope carried it into the calendar — Sylvester I died on 31 December, which is why New Year's Eve is still called Silvester across much of Europe.
Boy Latin #2,211 in US
Ria Ria is a girl's name with two unrelated sources — a Spanish word for a river mouth, and a Dutch and German short form of Maria.
Girl Spanish #2,337 in US
Lynn Lynn is a name from a Welsh and Gaelic word for a lake or a pool below a waterfall.
Unisex Welsh #2,546 in US
Primrose Primrose is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "first rose."
Girl Latin #2,556 in US
Hollie Hollie is a girl's name from the holly tree, whose name comes from a word meaning "prickly" rather than anything festive.
Girl English #2,832 in US
Coralie Coralie names a skeleton — coral is the calcium structure built by colonies of tiny animals, so the name describes an object made by living things rather than a plant or a stone.
Girl French #2,986 in US
Ginger Ginger reached English from Sanskrit by way of four languages — shringavera, horn-root, named for the rhizome's antler shape, and every step of that journey is documented.
Girl English #3,325 in US
Camélia Camélia is a girl's name taken from the camellia, a flower Linnaeus named after a Jesuit missionary botanist called Kamel — so the name is a surname twice removed.
Girl French #3,721 in US
Ebony Ebony reached English from ancient Egyptian, which makes it one of the oldest borrowings in the language — hbny passed into Greek and Latin with the timber itself, and English kept both the wood and the word.
Girl English #5,427 in US
Nassim Nassim is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "gentle breeze," and it is one of very few names that describe weather rather than a person.
Boy Arabic #8,424 in US
Darragh Darragh is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "oak" or "oak grove," from the Irish dair.
Boy Irish #8,874 in US
Océane Océane means of the ocean, and it is almost entirely French — 283rd there against 2998th in England and Wales and 10001st in the United States.
Girl French #10,001 in US
Laverne Laverne means the alder grove, and the goddess sometimes cited for it is a poor fit — Laverna was the Roman patroness of thieves, which is not a namesake most sources mention when they list her.
Unisex French #10,845 in US
Sylvain Sylvain means of the forest, from the Roman god of woodlands and of field boundaries.
Boy French #13,265 in US
Ambre Ambre is a girl's name, the French word for amber, the fossilised tree resin used as a gemstone.
Girl French 66,158 births
Sylviane Sylviane means of the forest, and Rome had a god for exactly that — Silvanus presided over woodland and field boundaries, and Rhea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus, carries the same root.
Girl French 53,090 births
Hortense Hortense is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "of the garden," from hortus.
Girl French 21,733 births
Garance Garance is a girl's name taken from the madder plant, whose root gave Europe its most important red dye before synthetic colors.
Girl French 14,250 births
Muireann Muireann is a girl's name from Irish meaning sea-fair, built from the words for sea and white.
Girl Irish 1,822 births

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