A beautifully curated collection of modern baby names — explore meanings, origins, and discover the perfect name for your little one.
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The most beloved baby names across the world's great faith traditions.
Contemporary names that blend heritage with a fresh, global feel — the fastest-rising names among new parents across all faiths and cultures.
Modern Baby Names brings together 7,300+ researched names from Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jewish and Buddhist families, plus classic and modern names with no religious background. Every name page explains what the name means, where it comes from, how to pronounce it and how it is used today. Where scholars disagree about a meaning, we say so.
Name meanings online are often copied from site to site, mistakes included. We check each name against dictionaries and naming traditions for its own language — Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Punjabi, Irish, Old English and many more — and correct the religion and origin labels when they are wrong (Aarav, for example, is a Sanskrit name, not a Hebrew one). Names we cannot verify are not given a meaning.