It's easy to think that baby names inspired by colors are a new trendy faddish sort of thing, but really they're not. As our friends over at Baby Name Wizard point out, "Between the floral names of the Victorian era and the beloved jewel names of the turn of the century" parents have been digging color names for quite some time.
What is kind of brand new about the color name choices people are making now is that we've opened up the whole box of crayons, so to speak. Instead of sticking to traditional color names, we've become more adventurous in our choices. What I love about this trend and trust me that I love this trend (I named both of my daughters after colors) is that it's beautiful and not as weird as so many make it out to be. I mean colors are all around us and they have always inspired us, why wouldn't they inspire our baby name choices?
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I find it interesting that some of the more "traditional" color names that have been used for centuries now nobody blinks an eye at, but then when they hear of someone being named Blue for the first time everyone chuckles like it's some kind of hippy dippy name that you can only appreciate if you are a celebrity or have been smoking whacky tobacky, but really what's the difference?
Now check out these gorgeous baby names inspired by colors and keep in mind that some of the names that are on the girls' list can totally work for boys and vice versa!
Girls
1. Amber
2. Blanca
3. Blue
4. Coral
5. Ebony
6. Lavender
7. Olive
8. Rosa
9. Rose
10. Ruby
11. Scarlet
12. Sienna
13. Silver
14. Tawny
15. Violet
Boys
1. Auburn
2. Azul
3. Blu (different spelling of Blue)
4. Cobalt
5. Cyan
6. Gray
7. Indigo
8. Red
9. Sterling
10. Tan
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