Naming Your Baby After Astronomy – The Stars!

If you want a really great and original name for your baby, try naming him or her after the stars above or the months of the calendar. The best names for a girl from the calendar months are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, September, October, November and December. March and August best suit a boy.

A popular girl's name from the forties was Early – a nice name if you want to go retro. Dawn is also a great girl's name and so is Aurora which means Dawn. Also very forties is Stella which means Stars. If you like the sky then both boys and girls suit the names Sky or Skye.

A very popular girl's name in 2010 was Luna which basically means 'the moon.'Twilight, Sundown and Sunset have also been both girl and boy names in the past. Related to these are Soleil, Sunny, Sunshine, Sol and Solveig which are usually girl names. Eloise and Marisol also mean 'the sun.' Samson and Cyrus are both names that mean 'The Sun' for boys.

In the seventies it was cool to call your kid Morning and Midnight. Kids were also named after the planets. Girls suit Sun, Moon, Earth and Venus and boys suit Sun, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Pluto.

Some constellations make nice names as well. A boy named after the constellation Orion is destined to be a prince. Other wonderful names for boys that are actually constellations are Apus, Aquila, Aries, Cetus, Corvus, Dorado, Draco, Leo, Lepus, Lynx, Mensa, Pavo, Persus Pictor, Puppis, and Phoenixand Volans.

Great names for girls that are also constellations are Andromeda, Aquarius, Ara, Auriga, Carina, Columba, Delphinus and Norma.\

You might also consider naming your kid after a star. Boys might suit the names Acamar, Acrus, Adhil, Aladfar, Albaldah, Albali, Aldebaran, Alfirk, Agorab, Alioth, Alnair, Alnath, Alniyat, Alphard, Alrai, Altair, Alzirr, Arrakis, Asellus, Atik, Atlas, Betelgeuse, Caph, Dabih, Izar, Kraz, Matar, Nash, Phaet, Rigel, Sabik, Salm, Segin, Sirius, Vega, Wasat, Yed and Zuben.

Bright stars that you could name a girl after include Ain, Alchiba, Aldamarin, Alhena, Alrisha, Aludra, Alya, Ancha, Ascella, Auva, Beid, Bellatrix, Electra, Haedi, Heze, Maia, Meissa, Mira, Nashira, Ruchbah, Sarin, Shaula, Spica, Subra, Tabit, Talitha, Tania, Terebellum, Zaniah and Zosma.

For the ultimate celestial name why not try Celeste or even Celestial which does mean the heavens. Both boys and girls have been known to be called Heaven in the past as well.

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Baby Names That Imply Your Baby is The Best

Even if your baby is not an intellectual there are some name out there that can make him or her sound like one. First off you could consider naming your child after some of the smartest people in the world. There is Noam (after Noam Chomsky), Umberto (after Umberto Eco), Vaclav (after Vaclav Havel), Jared (after Jared Diamond), Salman (after Salman Rushdie), Bjorn (after Bjorn Lomborg)

For the girls you can try Naomi (after Naomi Klien), Joan (after Joan Didion), Ivanka (after Ivanka Trump and Camille (after Camille Paglia.)

The literature of the U.S. South is also a great source of names and so is their authors. Try Scout or Atticus from 'To Kill a Mockingbird. For a bit of Southern elan name your child Truman, Eudora, Flannery or Carson.

You can also name your baby girl after famous female achievers in business and politics. The names Condoleeza, Oprah, Gayle, Sarah and Hilary are appropriate. For boys there are names such as Edgar, Johnson, Kennedy, Robert, Reagan, George, Washington, Franklin, Luther, Martin and Napoleon.

If you want your baby to have a traditional name that has a bit of an academic reference yet is also somewhat poetic then look no further than the works of Shakespeare. Portia, Ariel, Viola, Ophelia and Katherine are Shakespearean names for girls and Mercutio, Brutus, Horatio and Claudius are great Shakespearian names for boys.
Sticking to great names from English literature can also be beautiful, yet smart sounding. Examples are Robert, Langston, Ulysses, Quentin, Dante, Barrett, Ezra, Langston, Stewart and Mary, Shelly, Elizabeth, Jane, Charlotte and Sylvia.

One tip for making your baby sound smarter is to add a son to the end of the name as in Jackson Pollock, or Anderson Cooper. You could also name your child after a real genius. You could name your boy Akrit after Akrit Jswal who is a 7 year old surgeon or Saul or Aaron after Saul Aaron Kripke who is one of the youngest geniuses at Harvard. There is also Fabiano after the chess genius Fabiano Luigi Caruanna.

You can also try naming your baby after famous intellectuals in literature. There is Holden, after the main character in Catcher-in-The Rye. The pop-culture version might be Blaine from the B-movie starring Molly Ringwald called Pretty-in-Pink.

Then there is the sitcom approach as well. The sitcom Frasier is a rich source of these names because there are a lot of uppity 'eggheads' on the show including Lilith, Meredith, Frasier and Niles.

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