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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Is your name on the way out?

We often hear about baby names that are rocketing up the charts, but what about the names at the opposite end of the trends list?

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The new Instagram baby name trend

Of course, some of those were already names, but we would probably say that Kelvin wouldn't have risen in popularity on its own.

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Hot baby name predictions for 2016

According to one parenting site, 2016 will see the rise of some unusual names, with some uncommon old-fashioned monikers thrown into the mix.

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