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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.

Shem

Meaning: name

Origin:Hebrew
3257
Origin:Spanish variation of Ishmael
2782
Faraday

Meaning: wood man

Origin:Scottish surname
4955
Faraday

Meaning: wood man

Origin:Scottish surname
4955
Basel

Meaning: king

Origin:Swiss place name
5146
Beryl

Meaning: sea-green jewel

Origin:Greek
1174
Sulien

Meaning: sun born

Origin:Welsh
996
Tarka

Meaning: wandering as water

Origin:Literary name
4655
Ashwin

Meaning: ash friend

Origin:Sanskrit
2374
Sibyl

Meaning: seer, oracle

Origin:Greek
2022
Pemma

Meaning: lotus flower

Origin:Tibetan
8954
Everild

Meaning: boar battle

Origin:Old English
0
Aroon

Meaning: darling

Origin:Irish
0
Rua

Meaning: red

Origin:Irish
1267
Annis

Meaning: pure, virginal

Origin:Variation of Agnes
3838
Zadok

Meaning: righteous

Origin:Hebrew
2962
Iskra

Meaning: spark

Origin:Slavic
3485
Esca

Meaning: water

Origin:Gaelic
4321
Gwyn

Meaning: fair, blessed

Origin:Welsh
4505
Dougray Dougray is a Christian name of French origin...
Origin:French surname
4583