Modern baby names that feel fresh

Elegant (雅), beautiful (娥) or child (兒), and the lustre of jade (璘) or the qilin, a mythical beast of good omen (麟), depending on the characters

Elegant (雅), beautiful (娥) or child (兒), and glossy (潤) or honest (允), depending on the characters

High, exalted; the feminine form of the Arabic Aali

A rare variant of Adeline with the ending -lyn, or Ada plus -lyn

A rare variant of Adeline with the -lynn ending; also read as Ada plus -lynn

Son of Adam, from an English surname

A rare variant of Adeline

A rare non-standard variant of Adeline

An English form of the Irish Aodhán

From a Spanish place name, the Sierra de Aitana

Joyful; from the Basque alai

A 20th-century variant of Alana, from Alain, the French form of Alan

Orange, from the Hawaiian; perhaps also a modern variant of Alan or Alanna

A feminine form of Alan; a variant spelling of Alana

A rare variant of Alaina

The Italian feminine of Alessio; may mean defending warrior

A modern American variant of Aaliyah, from Arabic; also a Hebrew name, from the word for ascent

My dream, in the Bantu languages of Botswana

A 20th-century invention, possibly from the alyssum plant, from Alicia or from Elissa

A modern coinage, often explained as the Sanskrit for eternal

From the heroine of a Spanish novel, explained as the Basque for the end

An archer; from an English occupational surname

Often read as a musical aria; the Persian Arya means noble

A modern form of Ariadne, from the Greek for most holy

A feminine form of Ariel

Invented by Edmund Spenser as the name of a hill in The Faerie Queene

Noble, respectable; the feminine form of the Sanskrit arya

A Hebrew name from the Bible; in English also a surname for one who lived by an ash grove

Ash tree settlement, from Old English

A modern name for the aspen tree

A form of Eva; also an English form of the Irish Aoife

Elf counsel; from the Old English Ælfred

A Scandinavian name, linked to the Hebrew Absalom

A new American spelling of Aidan

Moon halo, or the one that belongs to the moon; a Turkish name

From an English surname for a steward or official, or one who lived by a castle bailey

From an English surname for someone living near a hill or bank

From an Irish surname of several origins, including Middle English for quarrelsome and Old French for trickery

From the French word beau, or short for surnames like Beaumont

Homestead of Becca, from an Old English personal name

An English form of Benedict

Bent-grass field; from an Old English place name in Sussex

A variant of Blair, from the Scottish Gaelic

A variant of Blakeley, from a surname

From the Danish and Swedish Bo, or a spelling variant of Beau

Awakening, the wisdom of a Buddha; from the Sanskrit bodhi

From a Scottish surname, a variant of Body, or a French surname

Broad eye or broad island, from Old English; or from the Irish Ó Brádaigh

Perhaps from an English surname taken from the village of Branxton

A modern variant of Braden, from a surname