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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.

Fifer

Meaning: piper

Origin:Scottish occupational name
4242
Ferelith

Meaning: true sovereignty

Origin:Scottish
1247
Odysseus

Meaning: wrathful

Origin:Greek mythology name
1529
Pim

Meaning: resolute protection

Origin:Dutch diminutive of Willem or William
6033
Crusoe The meaning of Crusoe is 'literary name'. Th...
Origin:Literary surname
2735
Misha The name Misha is Hebrew and the meaning of ...
Origin:Russian, diminutive of Mikhail
2220
Fenn

Meaning: wetland, marsh

Origin:English
2234
Leonard

Meaning: brave lion

Origin:German
490
Victor

Meaning: conqueror

Origin:Latin
190
Zooey The meaning of Zooey is ‘life’. It is a name...
Origin:Literary name
8096
Sid

Meaning: Saint-Denis

Origin:Short form of Sidney, French
1797
Humphrey

Meaning: peaceful warrior

Origin:German
600
Ives

Meaning: yew wood

Origin:English variation of Yves
871
Ogden

Meaning: from the oak valley

Origin:English
3300
Herbert

Meaning: bright army

Origin:German
1020
Albert

Meaning: noble, bright

Origin:German
218
Wallace

Meaning: foreigner, stranger

Origin:Scottish
751
Irving

Meaning: green river, sea friend

Origin:Scottish
774
Wilkie

Meaning: resolute protection

Origin:Scottish
17145
Edwin

Meaning: wealthy friend

Origin:English
316