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Place Names

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.

Agatha

Meaning: good woman

Origin:Greek
419
Pipaluk

Meaning: sweet little thing who belongs to me

Origin:Greenlandic
4753
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Origin:Cornish variation of Mirin, Irish and Scottish, meaning unknown
1773
Keturah

Meaning: incense

Origin:Hebrew
2055
Vashti

Meaning: lovely

Origin:Persian
2103
Barbara

Meaning: foreign woman

Origin:Latin
693
Bathsheba

Meaning: daughter of an oath

Origin:Hebrew
1715
Hester

Meaning: star

Origin:Medieval variation of Esther, Persian
866
Minty

Meaning: defender

Origin:Diminutive of Aminta and Araminta, Greek
2717
Madelief

Meaning: daisy

Origin:Dutch, '"daisy"
2314
Alberta

Meaning: noble, bright

Origin:English, feminine variation of Albert
2466
Ambrosia

Meaning: Immortal

Origin:Latin, feminine form of Ambrose
750
Hera

Meaning: protectress

Origin:Greek
816
Dulcie

Meaning: sweet

Origin:Latin, diminutive of Dulcibella
883
Hero

Meaning: demi-god

Origin:Greek
1512
Hebe

Meaning: youth

Origin:Greek
1525
Tiggy

Meaning: worthy of one's parents, in place of one's parents

Origin:English diminutive of Antigone, Greek
1609
Caro

Meaning: free man

Origin:Diminuitve of Carol or Caroline, English, French ,"free man"
6193
Raleigh

Meaning: meadow of deer

Origin:English
3346
Dagny

Meaning: new day

Origin:Scandinavian
3007