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Place names for babies is an ever-expanding category, as some place names — Savannah, Dakota, London — become popular and parents look to adopt undiscovered locales as names for their babies.

Here are some of the more unusual new choices of place names. The top names below rank among the current US Top 1000 Baby Names and are ordered by popularity. Unique names rank below the Top 1000 and are listed alphabetically.

Brixton Brixton is a habitual name from a district i...
Origin:British place name
3083
Hemingway Hemingway is a name that originated in old E...
Origin:English place name
3875
Brighton

Meaning: bright town

Origin:English, place name meaning "bright town"
2070
Monaco The meaning of Monaco comes from the Greek w...
Origin:Place name
8961
Monaco The meaning of Monaco comes from the Greek w...
Origin:Place name
10095
Wellington

Meaning: people living in the hamlet in the cleared area near the temple

Origin:English surname from place name
2044
Trilby Trilby is a habitational name based on a pla...
Origin:Place name, surname, and literary name
2856
Oslo Oslo is predominantly a gender-neutral name ...
Origin:Norwegian place name
622
Soho The name Soho is primarily used as a boy's n...
Origin:place name
6255
Valletta Valletta is a popular name usually used for ...
Origin:Maltese place name
6386
Yaiza Yaiza is a name especially used for baby gir...
Origin:Spanish place name
2881
Java Java is of Arabic origin. It is also of Engl...
Origin:Anglicization of Indonesian Jawa; place name
5606
Fiji

Meaning: place name

Origin:English
5683
Origin:Basque, place name
22413
Euston

Meaning: heart

Origin:Irish
4499
Kenai

Meaning: flat lands

Origin:Native American place name
802
Evora

Meaning: yew tree

Origin:Portuguese place name
1852
Jamaica

Meaning: rich in springs

Origin:Native American place name
4415
Wales Wales is a beautiful name usually given to m...
Origin:Place name
6460
Aquitaine The origin of the name Aquitaine lies in the...
Origin:French place name
6519