Baby Name Ideas

Baby Name Inspiration lists

Finding the right baby name doesn't need to be fraught with anguish and worry. Essential Baby has thousands of baby name ideas for you to choose the perfect baby girl name or baby boy name.

Here, we have created some lists of names under popular categories. Browse through to find a name you love.

Musical Names


International Names


Need more help finding the perfect baby name?
Head to our Baby Name Tool to browse by letter, meaning, gender or origin.
Use our Baby Name Tester tool to see how a name sounds in a variety of situations.
Talk to others and use the forum as a sounding board with baby names on our baby names forums. There are lots of naming fanatics ready to help with name ideas, sibsets and to warn you off no-go names in the baby name forum.


 

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Scottish baby names

Scotland, the wind and water-hewn land of the loch, the kilt and the heather. Bedecked in castles great and small, there are many Australians with Scottish heritage who could look to that fair country for baby name inspiration.

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Italian baby names

The world's love affair with all things Italian will never abate, so if you're lucky enough to have the heritage behind you - or not - you may want to consider giving your child a name from one of the most beautiful romance languages in the world.

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The bible contains as many as 1700 unique names.

Christian baby names

The bible (both testaments) has an astounding number of names, even though the exact number is up for debate as many people share the same names.

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There are thousands of beautiful Hindi names.

Indian (Hindi) baby names

There are quite literally thousands of names across 23 recognised languages in India. We've narrowed it down to Hindi names to bring you a still-extensive and carefully-curated list of beautiful Indian names for your baby.

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