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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.

Mosley

Meaning: peat bog, mouse clearing

Origin:English place name and surname
4309
Asbury Asbury was known mostly as a surname in the ...
Origin:Place name
6851
Lamorna Lamorna is dominantly a girl's name, which b...
Origin:Cornish place name
6958
Tempe The meaning of Tempe is 'temple'. There are ...
Origin:Greek place name
4566
Origin:Iranian Place Name
11895
Cathay Cathay is a unique name for a female child. ...
Origin:Anglicized version of Italian Catai; place name
11969
Kimberley

Meaning: Cyneburga's meadow

Origin:English surname
7237
Origin:Irish place name; poetic form
7461
Davos The name Davos is primarily used as a boy's ...
Origin:Literary name and place name
7892
Origin:English place name
8102
Nineveh

Meaning: house of fish

Origin:Biblical place name from Akkadian or Babylonian
8218
Majorca The name Majorca alone may evoke pleasant me...
Origin:Spanish place name
8403
Origin:Armenian place name
4878
Kiska The meaning of Kiska is 'pure,' which is pre...
Origin:Aleutian place name
1821
Gramercy Gramercy is a rare name primarily used for b...
Origin:Place name
8498
Russia The meaning of Russia is 'the men who row' a...
Origin:Russian place name
8725
Origin:Armenian place name
13880
Origin:Place name
14255
Lupita The name Lupita is of Spanish origin and the...
Origin:Spanish, “little wolf”
2934
Finnick Finnick is of American origin. It is traditi...
Origin:English place name and surname
343