New year-inspired baby names

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 once again 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 and beginnings

• Amaryllis
• Beeja
• Dagny
• Idony
• Mika
• Nasima
• Navin
• Neo
• Neoma
• Nova
• Nyssa
• Raanan
• Zelenka
• Zera

Names for January

• 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.”