New Year’s baby names offer hope, a new beginning

Posted in Name my baby
by Lorain County Moms

nameberry.com

The ringing in of a new year brings with it a sense of fresh beginnings, a new dawn dawning, and bright hopes for the future. And so with that in mind, and with our warmest wishes to all of you for a great year, we offer some names drawn from a variety of cultures that suggest those very things — and all of them appropriate for a New Year’s baby.

NAMES THAT MEAN HOPE

• AMAL
• AMIL
• ARRAYAH
• ASHA
• ESPERANZA
• HOPE
• NADIA, NADINE
• NOZOMI
• RAJA
• SPERANZA
• TARAJA
• TIKVAH
• VON

NAMES THAT MEAN DAWN

• AURORA
• DAWN
• ORIANA
• ROXANA/ROXANNE
• SAHAR
• ZARA
• ZORA/ZORINA

NAMES THAT MEAN NEWNESS, FRESHNESS, BEGINNINGS

• AMARYLLIS
• BEEJA
• DAGNY
• IDONY
• MIKA
• NASIMA
• NAVIN
• NEO
• NEOMA
• NOVA
• NYSSA
• RAANAN
• ZELENKA
• ZERA

Another approach, if you’re naming a baby born in the first month of the year, would be to consider one of the diverse names used for the month of January across the world:

• BAHMAN
• CAIT (in Hindi)
• EINAIR
• ENERO
• GENNAIO
• GENNARO
• JAANUAR
• JANIERO/JANEIRO
• JANUARI
• JANVIER
• LEDEN
• MAKARA (means born under Capricorn)
• TARR

Nameberry (http://nameberry.com) is a baby-naming site produced by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz, co-authors of 10 bestselling baby name guides, including the newest, “Beyond Ave and Aiden: The Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby.”