Nature-Inspired Baby Names
46 nature-inspired baby names. Median rank #102 in Canada for 2024, up 13 places since 2020.
Each line is the median rank of the names in this collection that appear on that place’s list in every complete year shown, inside the top 1,000.
Girls 37 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | England and Wales 2025 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivia | Olive tree | #1 | #1 | #1 |
| Lily | Lily flower | #9 ↑5 | #2 ↑5 | #24 ↑11 |
| Isla | Named for the River/Isle of Islay | #13 ↓2 | #4 ↓1 | #35 ↑9 |
| Freya | Norse goddess of love and beauty | #85 ↑41 | #6 ↑6 | #159 ↑19 |
| Chloe | Blooming, verdant | #8 ↓2 | #89 ↓43 | #20 ↑6 |
| Ivy | Ivy plant; fidelity | #33 ↑4 | #9 ↓3 | #36 ↑22 |
| Luna | Moon | #37 ↑10 | #60 ↓24 | #13 ↑1 |
| Sienna | The city of Siena; reddish-brown | #102 ↑8 | #15 ↑7 | #139 ↑27 |
| Violet | Purple; violet flower | #17 ↑17 | #37 ↑11 | #15 ↑22 |
| Aurora | Dawn | #34 ↑24 | #39 ↑25 | #16 ↑20 |
| Daisy | Day's eye; the flower | #108 ↑153 | #18 ↑6 | #76 ↑67 |
| Hazel | Hazel tree; eye color | #27 ↑18 | #71 new | #19 ↑12 |
| Willow | Willow tree | #67 ↓2 | #20 ↓7 | #41 ↑7 |
| Rose | Rose flower | #38 ↑1 | #67 ↓6 | #115 ↓3 |
| Nova | New (as in new star) | #79 ↑3 | #68 new | #39 ↓1 |
| Stella | Star | #58 ↓2 | — | #49 ↓7 |
| Lillian | Lily flower | #96 ↓7 | — | #54 ↓8 |
| Iris | Rainbow; the flower | #106 ↑39 | #57 ↑20 | #71 ↑56 |
| Rosalie | Little rose | #63 ↓13 | — | #177 ↑21 |
| Leilani | Heavenly flowers | #950 ↑247 | — | #66 ↑26 |
| Eden | Delight, place of pleasure | #122 ↑29 | #80 ↑18 | #72 ↑58 |
| Jade | The gemstone | #73 ↓14 | — | #84 ↑13 |
| Autumn | The season | #133 ↓14 | — | #79 ↑3 |
| Liliana | Lily flower | #278 ↑24 | — | #80 ↑30 |
| Jasmine | Jasmine flower | #91 ↓15 | — | #199 ↓58 |
| Summer | The season | #97 ↑63 | — | #142 ↑9 |
| Savannah | Open grassy plain | #201 ↓86 | — | #107 ↓40 |
| Juniper | The evergreen shrub | #169 ↑112 | — | #111 ↑60 |
| Flora | Roman goddess of flowers | #117 ↑138 | — | #648 ↑280 |
| Wren | The small bird | #120 ↑169 | — | #213 ↑148 |
| Ashley | Ash tree meadow | #376 ↓60 | — | #124 ↑29 |
| Ember | Burning coal, spark | #231 ↑33 | — | #137 ↑50 |
| Magnolia | The flowering tree | #768 ↑136 | — | #138 ↑38 |
| Sage | Wise; sage herb | #221 ↑38 | — | #146 ↑76 |
| River | The waterway | #303 ↓68 | — | #214 ↓28 |
| Rowan | Little redhead; rowan tree | #267 ↑1 | — | #266 ↓11 |
| Dylan | Son of the sea, great tide | — | — | #696 ↓201 |
Boys 15 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | England and Wales 2025 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson | Son of Hugh | #27 ↑4 | #43 ↑26 | #22 ↑21 |
| Dylan | Son of the sea, great tide | #107 ↓40 | #72 ↓17 | #28 ↑14 |
| Rowan | Little redhead; rowan tree | #64 ↑38 | #30 ↑41 | #71 ↑42 |
| Kai | Sea | #51 ↑28 | #78 new | #76 ↑17 |
| Jasper | Treasurer; the gemstone | #80 ↓4 | #63 ↑15 | #133 ↑5 |
| Brooks | Of the brook | #71 ↑46 | — | #67 ↑25 |
| Silas | Of the forest | #139 ↑20 | — | #81 ↑19 |
| River | The waterway | #149 ↑32 | — | #112 ↑17 |
| Callum | Dove | #122 ↑51 | — | #159 ↑175 |
| Nash | By the ash tree | #134 ↓6 | — | #240 |
| Olivier | Olive tree | #148 ↓57 | — | — |
| Ashton | Ash tree settlement | #253 ↓61 | — | #188 ↓52 |
| Eden | Delight, place of pleasure | #287 ↑120 | — | #466 ↑24 |
| Sage | Wise; sage herb | #473 ↑80 | — | #413 ↑23 |
| Wren | The small bird | #639 ↑643 | — | — |
How this collection is built
The names are grouped by hand; every rank beside them is an official birth registration count, read from each place’s most recent complete list. A name that ranks for both girls and boys appears under both tabs with its own rank in each — those two positions are often far apart, and that gap is the interesting part.
See the same names year by year in the full rankings.
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