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Place Names for Babies

Place names for babies come from all over the globe and can include city names, state names, country names, even mountain and ocean names.

Place names have become so widely used that popular place names make a category of baby names all on their own. Most place names can be used for either baby girls or baby boys, but are more popular for one than the other.

Along with Top 10 Charlotte, which in fairness was a person name before it was a city name, place names ranking in the US Top 300 for baby girls include Madison, Savannah, Brooklyn, London, Sienna, Dakota, and Aspen. Hudson is the top place name on the boys' side, with Austin, Kingston, Camden, Zion, Israel, and Phoenix also ranking in the Top 300.

Place names are less widely-used for babies in other countries than they are in the US. Florence and Georgia rank in Britain's Top 100, but those place names have both been used as baby names for centuries. In the Netherlands, Milan ranks among the boys' Top 10 But many other European and English-speaking countries don't rank any place names at all among their top names for babies.

Here, the most popular place names used for both girls and boys. For more exotic choices, see our list of Place Names Off The Map..

Maui Maui is a popular name for boys of Hawaiian ...
Origin:Hawaiian, Polynesian mythology
5313
Maui Maui is a popular name for boys of Hawaiian ...
Origin:Hawaiian place name and Polynesian mythology name
5817
Livingston

Meaning: dear friend's place

Origin:English
5848
Livingston

Meaning: dear friend's place

Origin:English
16778
Oban

Meaning: the little bay

Origin:Scottish place name
5866
Calvary The name Calvary is referred to in the King ...
Origin:English from Latin, place name
5874
Sinai The meaning of Sinai is ‘From the clay Dust....
Origin:Hebrew
5900
Sinai The meaning of Sinai is ‘From the clay Dust....
Origin:Hebrew
7002
Origin:English place name
5926
Tauria The name Tauria is short and easy to pronoun...
Origin:Latin, place name
5941
Berian

Meaning: open plain or burial place

Origin:Welsh place name
5950
Detroit A perfect cool name Detroit is a masculine n...
Origin:Place name
5965
Essex The word Essex is a rare given name but a pr...
Origin:English place-name and surname
5973
Essex The word Essex is a rare given name but a pr...
Origin:English place-name and surname
13198
Tahiti The name Tahiti has connections with the Haw...
Origin:Tahitian, meaning unknown
6045
Venice The meaning of Venice comes from the city of...
Origin:Italian place name
9890
Venice The meaning of Venice comes from the city of...
Origin:Italian place-name
6052
Perth

Meaning: thornbush thicket

Origin:Scottish
6053
Bermuda Bermuda is the name mostly for girls. The na...
Origin:Place-name
6074
Turin Turin is the colloquial name of Torino, a fa...
Origin:Italian place name
6080