Baby Names — Curated Lists
Hand-picked baby names organized by cultural origin and by meaning. Each list comes with cultural context, popularity trends, pronunciation notes, and pairing advice — alongside the names themselves.
Looking for something more personal?
Use the free Baby Name Finder to filter across thousands of names by origin, meaning, popularity, gender, and starting letter — and save your shortlist.
Open the Baby Name Finder →By cultural origin
By meaning
By starting letter
Browsing alphabetically is one of the oldest ways to shortlist a baby name. Each letter page lists every curated name in our dataset starting with that letter, across all 22 cultural and meaning categories.
Girls
Boys
By length and syllable count
If you've already narrowed by cadence — "I want a short name that sounds strong" or "I want a three-syllable name that pairs with a one-syllable middle" — start here.
By length
By syllable count
How we curate
Every list is human-curated, not algorithm-generated. We start with US Social Security Administration popularity data, layer in cultural-society naming records (Irish Central Statistics Office, Italian ISTAT, INSEE for France, etc.), and confirm meanings against academic sources. Names that have been retired by their origin culture are excluded. Names with controversial historical associations are flagged in the meaning.